31 Dec 2002
A deep, moody and visually striking commercial featuring a magnetic performance from Samuel L Jackson. The idea was to talk about money, typically a taboo subject, and each of the scripts discusses money in an offbeat way. One focuses on paranoia with a scene from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, while...
31 Dec 2002
A Gold winner at this year's One Show. Starsky and Hutch meets Thelma and Louise in this mini-road movie of an ad, which brilliantly recreates the days of 70's car chases - men roll out of cars and criminals on the run do their thing against a backdrop of 70's disco.It's a send-up though - the cops...
31 Dec 2002
"The Egg ads raise a smile, mainly because, in homage to the US-style ads these clearly would love to be, they spend all the time dramatising the negative. The brand is represented by a tedious set of titles that rattle on about ... well, I can't remember, actually. So two ads for the price of one....
19 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - WPP Group media agency Mediaedge:cia has won more work from Citibank, having ousted rival Aegis Group from the bank's US outdoor media business.
18 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - A spat has broken out between BBC World and CNBC over which financial news service has the most desirable audience, with CNBC being rapped in the process.
13 Dec 2002
| by JOE LEPPER
The Energy Saving Trust is on the hunt for an agency to handle its consumer PR.
13 Dec 2002
HONG KONG: PRNewswire has joined forces with Xinhua Financial Network (XFN) to create Xinhua PR Newswire, which aims to enable Chinese companies to target corporate announcements directly to Western media and financial centres. The news follows the launch of a government-approved landmark scheme to...
13 Dec 2002
The Admiral Insurance Services media review (Campaign, 29 November) does not include non-broadcast media, which is held by TCS Media. Although Inferno has worked for Admiral on a project basis, the creative is now handled wholly in-house.
13 Dec 2002
HONG KONG: Insurance, savings and fund management group Aviva has launched a three-month promotional travel insurance campaign on the Airport Express after research showed that on average 51 per cent of travellers had not bought insurance.
13 Dec 2002
| by CHARLES EDWARDS, managing director of Fallon Asia
Loyalty marketing has been a buzz-concept in our industry for years, yet it amazes me how misunderstood it often is. I think bribery marketing would be a more accurate moniker.