20 Feb 2009
- The Central Office of Information (COI) has appointed Advertising Association chairman Mark Lund
21 Nov 2008
The prestigious Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is to have a PR dimension from 2009...Cannes Lions, founded as an advertising competition in 1954, is now
looking to represent the entire communications industry. Lord Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, will be jury president ...
community not just in advertising, but
in PR and other disciplines.' The festival runs from 22 to 27 June ...
21 Nov 2008
| by Anthony Hilton
robust performance given what is happening in its advertising markets. But the good news was ignored
24 Oct 2008
Donna Imperato's message for the UK PR industry is one of hope. The
credit crunch is a 'great opportunity', and PROs should be hitting
marketing managers with this line: 'Cutting out $2m from advertising is not going to hurt you, so
put $1m into your PR instead,' she argues. Imperato, 48, has had ...
07 Mar 2008
| by Bob Leaf, Chairman, Robert S Leaf Consultants, former
Burson-Marsteller international chair
suffered. But clients who cut advertising dramatically nearly always increased PR activities to compensate
15 Feb 2008
| by David Quainton
The campaign was made popular last year by an iconic advert featuring a
gorilla playing the drums to a Phil Collins song. Red is set to 'amplify' the sequel to that TV commercial through
direct-to-consumer work and a media engagement programme. The account will be led by Red's head of consumer brands Ed ...
28 Sep 2007
| by Aarti Shah
The firm was behind a campaign touting the risks associated with Google s planned acquisition of online advertising broker DoubleClick. Microsoft first hired the firm last year to work on a campaign ...
://i-comp.org for Internet companies, consumer groups, advertisers, and regulators to discuss e-commerce issues, said Josh ...
19 Sep 2007
| by Alexandra Bruell
, the potential for controversy found in social networks mirrors that of traditional advertising, where special-interest groups have pressed companies to pull controversial ads from TV shows, for example. Last month, Virgin ...
on the British National Party s page. The placement highlighted the fact that they couldn t control what kind ...
09 Aug 2007
| by Hamilton Nolan
communications industry over the next five years, although major shifts will take place as advertising ...
in double-digit annual leaps, advertising was the slowest-growing sector in the industry last year, posting a 4.5% growth rate. Spending on alternative advertising, however, such as Internet, mobile ...
02 Aug 2007
| by Aarti Shah
ATLANTA: Home Depot will continue advertising on Fox News despite the Sierra Club's efforts...The Sierra Club targeted Home Depot because it believes advertising on Fox News - which features ...
, met with activists, but did not change the company s advertising stance. We re going to continue to advertise on Fox, said Ron DeFeo, Home Depot s director of corporate communications. Our advertising ...