20 Dec 2001
The latest instalment in BT's 'Bringing people together' ads
showcases the telecoms company's free messaging service, BT Answer 1571,
with a naughty vignette of young love and old age. The 40-second spot,
created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO with media by The Allmond
Partnership, breaks nationally...
20 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
Phones 4u, the mobile phone reseller, has handed its 10m
direct sales account to JRT and its strategic media partner Universal
McCann Birmingham as it attempts to increase its share of the
market.
The direct arm of the business is based on generating calls from
consumers through advertising....
20 Dec 2001
NTL has hired Paul Stevenson as head of marketing for its North
East and East Midlands division. His appointment comes as the cable
company seeks to shift its marketing from national brand campaigns to
more regional activity (Marketing, December 13).
20 Dec 2001
BT Cellnet is teaming up with wireless marketing company
Smartfusion to launch a Christmas competition. Players register via
telephone and then text answers to questions printed in The Sun and on
the Channel 5 web site.
20 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
Warner Bros and Eurosport have teamed up to create the first
multinational mobile marketing campaign as part of the film company's
efforts to bolster its customer base.
A six-week campaign for the forthcoming film Ocean's Eleven is running
simultaneously in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain...
20 Dec 2001
| by JULES GRANT
BT pokes fun at New Age business trends that emerged in the 90s in
its latest advertising aimed at business customers. The campaign
represents St Luke's first work on the account, which it won from M 15m. Press, poster, radio and online activity accompany the
television campaign.
TV buying...
19 Dec 2001
1 RSPCA Primates campaign
2 Standard Life Bank Win Christmas 2001 gifts competition
3 Groupe Altadis Win prizes with liberte-gauloises.com
4 IBM Win Christmas 2001 prizes competition
5 Tiny Computers Free...
19 Dec 2001
Skincare brand Clearasil has signed a deal to launch a branded
virtual cinema on teen community site Habbo Hotel. The promotion is
designed to build awareness of Clearasil's 'Face of the Future' on-pack
promotion, which centres on a search for a would-be movie star and
offers teens the chance...
19 Dec 2001
Engage, the ad-serving software company, has appointed Chris
Fabesch as director of European operations. He will have overall
responsibility for the professional services team that works with
Engage's software products, providing consultancy, project management
and post-sales support for Engage's...
19 Dec 2001
| by STEVE BARRETT
A visit to cable company ntl's demonstration suite at the upmarket
Dolphin Square complex in London's Pimlico offers a temporary virtual
passport to the broadband future that is sadly unfamiliar to most of
us.
Ntl has installed a free trial of 10 megabytes-per-second web
connections to...