Campaign Hall of Fame: Chairman’s comment
20 Dec 1999 | by JOHN WEBSTER, Chairman Of The Jury
The criteria hinged around the interpretation of the word best .
Every year, Capital Radio s Hall of Fame starts well enough. Sure, there s the inevitable puzzling as to why Bowie and the Beatles should be quite so low down, just who does vote for ELO and whatever happened to Minnie Ripperton? But the real screaming at the radio begins with the top 20.
The criteria hinged around the interpretation of the word best .
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Cecilia Garnett, the chief executive of the Advertising Film and Video Producers Association, has resigned abruptly after financial irregularities came to light in the body s 1999 draft accounts.
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers met with Carlton and United News planned merger.
The Radio Advertising Bureau has restructured its staff and promoted two of its founder members, Justin Sampson and Douglas McArthur.
Fru Hazlitt, the sales director responsible for setting up Capital Radio Advertising, is leaving the company to join Yahoo! as European sales director.
The Samaritans is launching a TV and print advertising campaign developed by Ogilvy & Mather to coincide with the party season.
All the talk has turned to action this year as new media has made a tangible impact across the entire advertising industry. And it s not just the net-heads who are tangled up in the worldwide web - industry figures across the board are wrestling with the relevance of the wired world.
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