Campaign articles from August 2003

Campaign archives from August 2003

Jeffrey succeeds JWT's Schweitzer.(Bob Jeffrey is new worldwide chief executive, president at J. Walter Thompson)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Bob Jeffrey, the president of J. Walter Thompson North America, is to succeed the JWT worldwide chief executive and president, Peter Schweitzer. Jeffrey's appointment is expected to be formalised at a JWT worldwide management meeting in...

McCann lands pounds 8m pan-European brief for Nikon campaign.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... McCann-Erickson has won an pounds 8 million pan-European brief from the camera manufacturer Nikon. The agency triumphed in a final pitch against the Japanese agency ADK, following a four-way process that also involved Red Cell in Germany...

Young signs to FCB in top creative role.(Al Young moves to Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB)
August 1, 2003... Al Young, synonymous with the famous Tango advertising at HHCL/Red Cell, is quitting to take creative command at Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB as the agency attempts to end its reputation as an advertising also-ran. He will be a key figure in...

WPP agencies prepare to share Cordiant booty.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The demise of Bates UK is likely to result in a billings boost of more than pounds 20 million for J. Walter Thompson, if it can resolve conflict issues. The problems are pounds 5 million of Heinz frozen food business, which is a potential...

Agencies line up as Pathe calls pitch for pounds 6m media account.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The film distributor Pathe is reviewing its pounds 6 million media account out of Carat. The review marks the first time in ten years the account has come up for pitch. A list comprising Carat, The Allmond Partnership, BLM Media and...

PERSPECTIVE: Falling value of the Seymour in today's straitened industry.(Column)
August 1, 2003... You'd need a heart of stone not to feel some sympathy for Geoff Seymour this week. He's the first subject in our new series tracking down the industry's stars of previous generations. Ars longa, vita brevis according to Hippocrates, but...

Claims of ageism may cost industry millions.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Britain's ad industry, long regarded as the almost exclusive preserve of the young, is being warned that it could be faced with multimillion-pound compensation bills if it continues to discriminate against older staff. Legal experts claim...

Carat founder Mike Yershon sets up new TV ad auditing company.(Yershon Media Assessment is formed)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Mike Yershon, a founder director of Carat, has come out of semi-retirement to launch his own media auditing company, Yershon Media Assessment. Yershon, who is also a former executive media director of McCann-Erickson, aims to provide...

Starbucks holds its first pitch to appoint a UK digital agency.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Starbucks Coffee Company is holding a pitch to appoint its first digital creative agency for the UK market. Starbucks has called an undisclosed number of agencies to pitch for the business, which is understood to encompass digital...

Furniture store Harveys picks Soul after four-way pitch.(advertising account)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The furniture and furnishings retailer Harveys has appointed Soul to help it launch an advertising-led assault on its larger rivals DFS and Courts. The agency landed the business after a four-way pitch through the AAR, which also involved...

Hough takes job at Lambie-Nairn.(Nick Hough appointed chief executive)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Nick Hough, the former deputy chairman of Leagas Delaney in Europe, has been appointed to the role of chief executive at Lambie-Nairn, the WPP-owned branding specialist. The 48-year-old who, after chairman Tim Delaney, was the most senior...

Emirates talks with London agencies to extend creative list.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Dubai-based airline Emirates is again talking to London creative agencies about joining its advertising roster. The airline has approached a number of London agencies to conduct preliminary talks with in-depth discussions scheduled for...

The Business hires a former FT ad director.(David Walsh will lead the Sunday newspaper's new sales operation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Business, the Sunday newspaper owned by the Barclay brothers, has appointed the former Financial Times global ad director David Walsh to lead its new sales operation. Following Walsh's appointment, The Business will stop outsourcing...

Agencies line up to battle for Diageo GB below-the-line task.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Diageo Great Britain is looking for a below-the-line agency to handle the marketing for its premium range of alcohol brands. EHS Brann, Tullo Marshall Warren and KLP Euro RSCG will battle it out for the opportunity to market Diageo's...

HOTLINE: Matt Andrews joins the board of Vizeum UK.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Matt Andrews, currently a managing partner at Michaelides & Bednash, is joining the board of Vizeum UK as its head of strategy. Andrews joins Aegis Group's second-string media network in September.

HOTLINE: General Motors shortlists agencies.(for consolidated media account)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... General Motors has shortlisted Initiative Media and Starcom Motive to pitch for its pounds 90 million consolidated media account.

HOTLINE: Ray Kelly working part time as a consultant.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ray Kelly, a former chief executive of Carat northern Europe, is working part time as a consultant working alongside Mark Cranmer, Starcom Motive's chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

HOTLINE: Vivien Cotterill appointed at Dennis Publishing.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Vivien Cotterill, the former managing director of Attic Futura, has been appointed as the managing director of Dennis Publishing's consumer division. Alistair Ramsay has been promoted to UK chief executive.

HOTLINE: Batchelors talks to six agencies about account.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Batchelors is talking to six agencies about the future of its pounds 7 million Super Noodles and Cup-a-Soup business following its split with Mother. They are Publicis, Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, Grey London, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R and...

HOTLINE: Travelex sponsors ITV's coverage of Rugby World Cup.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Travelex is sponsoring ITV's forthcoming coverage of the Rugby World Cup, the biggest international sporting event of the year. The pounds 3.5 million deal was negotiated by Oliver Croom-Johnson at the sponsorship specialist SPP. The Rugby...

HOTLINE: Julian Treasure leaves publisher Just.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Julian Treasure, the chairman of the Interpublic-owned contract publisher Just, has left the company. Treasure founded Just 15 years ago and sold it to Interpublic two years ago. Treasure, 45, said he would take time off before deciding his...

HOTLINE: News Group Newspapers announces increase in ad revenue.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... News Group Newspapers, which this week appointed Belinda Furneaux-Harris as its marketing director, has announced increases in advertising revenue for the year to 30 June 2003. The Sun increased ad revenues by 4.2 per cent and News of the World...

HOTLINE: Readership of regional and local newspapers grows.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Readership of regional and local newspapers grew by 1.8 per cent in the year to the end of March 2003. Regional titles are now read by 84.5 per cent of the UK population (39.9 million adults) according to the Newspaper Society.

HOTLINE: LeapFrog appoints ZenithOptimedia to handle account.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... LeapFrog, the global developer of educational toys for children, has appointed ZenithOptimedia to handle its UK media account. The business was previously with Initiative Media.

HOTLINE: Cafedirect looks for media agency.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Cafedirect, the tea, coffee and cocoa company owned by the ethical retailer Fairtrade, is looking for a media agency. Cafedirect parted company from Starcom Motive earlier this year.

HOTLINE: The IPA appoints Kerry Walsh.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The IPA has appointed Kerry Walsh as the head of its training courses. An IPA staffer for the past 12 years, she was previously responsible for the agency body's 7 Stages programme, which aimed to provide continuous training to agency...

HOTLINE: Wunjo Communications appointed by film company Mercant Ivory.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Wunjo Communications, the agency founded by the former Still Price Lintas partner Russell Jarman Price, has been appointed to develop a communications programme for the film company Merchant Ivory. Its initial assignment will be to promote the...

HOTLINE: Phillipson Ward Longworth Camponi hires Jo Cook.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Phillipson Ward Longworth Camponi has hired the Grey London account director Jo Cook to run its newly won pounds 5 million Alliance & Leicester current-account business. She will also take charge of the Leeds shop's Fox's Biscuits business.

Saatchis team wins July Aerial Award.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... A Saatchi & Saatchi team has won the July Aerial Award for an ad created for Credit Card Fraud Protection. The monthly award, run in association with Campaign, went to Paul Dominet and Brian Connelly of Saatchis for their 'Katie Lee' spot....

TBWA mocks world of fashion with fcuk ads.(French Connection UK)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... French Connection UK pokes fun at how seriously the fashion industry takes itself in its latest campaign through TBWA\London. Launching in September, the press and poster campaign juxtaposes stock oh-so-serious model poses with...

Springpoint creates new brand identity for Initiative Media.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Initiative Media is relaunching with a new corporate identity and positioning designed to leverage the strength of its global network. Working with the branding consultancy Springpoint, a sister Interpublic agency, Initiative has announced...

Soul expands into board game publishing.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Soul is branching out from advertising by launching a boxed game, which will be sold in retail outlets such as Woolworths, WH Smith, Hamleys and Argos. 'Keepy Uppy the Game', based on the skill of keeping a football in the air for as long...

WCRS spoofs Rocky training scene for 118 118 campaign.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The directory enquiries service 118 118 has spoofed Sylvester Stallone's cult 70s boxing movie Rocky, complete with the classic theme music, in its latest television campaign through WCRS. The commercial, called 'Rocky', features the...

MPG study suggests few willing to pay to avoid television ads.(Media Planning Group)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Although people complain about TV ads, the majority of people would refuse to pay to avoid them, Media Planning Group research suggests. In a telephone survey of 1,000 adults, conducted by ICM Direct on behalf of MPG, two-thirds of...

Brass Tacks brings in Marc Backwell to improve title design.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... AMD Brass Tacks, the publishing company owned by Chime Communications, has appointed a head of creative to help grow the business. Marc Backwell, 34, joins from his role as the creative director of the Melbourne-based publisher Hardie...

Farm beats four to secure Smart task.(Smart car advertising account)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Farm has emerged as the surprise winner of the DaimlerChrysler-owned Smart car advertising account. According to Nielsen Media Research, the account is worth around pounds 2.5 million. However, Smart is set to increase its budget to pounds...

Vidler stands down as Capital rethinks radio management.(Andria Vidler, Capital FM Network)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Andria Vidler, the managing director of Capital FM Network, is stepping down from her job following a restructure designed to rejuvenate its flagship London station. Management for the Capital FM Network will now be split into two...

Ingram buys Unity for consultancy start-up.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Chris Ingram is making a return to the marketing services arena. His new consultancy, The Ingram Partnership, aims to provide clients with independent, integrated marketing and communications advice underpinned by the sort of skills offered by...

Air Miles moves account from TBWA to Grey.(advertising account moved to Grey London)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Air Miles is switching its account from TBWA\London to Grey London in advance of a planned relaunch of the brand, which is evolving from a loyalty scheme into a more broad-based travel service. The account has traditionally billed around...

Hurman next to depart in Bailey's Trinity Mirror reshuffle.(Neil Hurman, Sly Bailey)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Trinity Mirror has continued its purge of senior management with the departure of the Mirror Group ad director Neil Hurman. Hurman, who joined Mirror Group from Leagas Delaney in late 2000, was the last remaining senior national newspaper...

DFGW creates Daewoo ad for General Motors.
August 1, 2003... General Motors has unveiled its first advertising campaign for the Daewoo brand in the UK as part of a pan-European TV drive created by DFGW. The campaign aims to reassure customers of the pedigree and trustworthiness of the Daewoo brand...

Delaney Lund Knox Warren hires former D'Arcy creative team.(Steve Drysdale and Steve Boswell)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners has boosted its creative ranks by hiring the former D'Arcy deputy creative directors Steve Drysdale and Steve Boswell. The two men are best known for their work on COI Communications' anti-drink drive...

Talking zit stars in Oxy Malcolm in the Middle sponsorship spots.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ogilvy & Mather has created a 'talking pimple' character to promote the skincare brand Oxy's sponsorship of the US comedy TV series Malcolm in the Middle. The four 15-second indents, which feature pupils from Eltham College in south east...

Virgin Mobile reveals new 3p-text ad.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Virgin Mobile is unveiling a sequel to its 'devil makes work for idle thumbs' campaign, which launched the network's 3p-text tariff earlier this year. Created by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, the new ad replicates the tongue-in-cheek...

Jason Andrews joins Agency Republic as its creative director.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Agency Republic has hired FCB Sydney's deputy creative director Jason Andrews as its new creative director. Agency Republic has been on the hunt for a creative director for eight months, following the departure of Rob Scott last November....

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE LEAGUE: 1 August.(agencies ranked by net billings gained)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Rank Rank Agency Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

MEDIA PERFORMANCE LEAGUE: 1 August.(ranked by net billings gained)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Rank Rank Agency Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Burnett creates FPA cinema spot.(Leo Burnett, Family Planning Association)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Leo Burnett has teamed up with the Family Planning Association to launch a new cinema ad that aims to raise awareness of chlamydia, the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted disease. Burnett approached the charity with the offer of...

Sky Creative reveals first work for outside client in shop! TV ad.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sky Creative, BSkyB's recently launched in-house production unit, has created its first advertising campaign for an external client. The National Magazine Company is supporting the launch of its title shop! with a ten-second TV execution....

BMP rips designer wear for Harvey Nichols.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Harvey Nichols, the upmarket department store, has unveiled a campaign to promote its annual summer sale featuring must-have designer items being torn apart by frenzied shoppers, eager to find bargains. The press and poster campaign,...

St Luke's targets children for Clark's.(made three TV ads for August shoe-buying season)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... St Luke's has made three TV ads targeting children in the August shoe-buying season. A back-to-school campaign for the Clark's Bootleg range targets eight- to 11-year-olds and capitalises on their wish to be involved in the shoe-buying...

Danone ad campaign revamps Shape brand.
August 1, 2003... Danone, the yoghurt, mineral water and biscuit manufacturer, is relaunching its Shape brand with a campaign through Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R. The multimedia campaign, which will break next week, aims to revamp Shape's image as a...

Hachette Filipacchi hires Simon Bell as marketing director.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Hachette Filipacchi has boosted its UK management team with the appointment of a marketing director and business development director. Simon Bell joins Hachette, the publisher of Elle and Red, in September as the director of marketing from...

GlaxoSmithKline spends pounds 1m to guard Sensodyne market share.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... GlaxoSmithKline is underpinning its Sensodyne sensitive teeth brand with new advertising to sustain its market leadership and ward off the threat of a rival launch by Colgate-Palmolive. A pounds 1 million outdoor campaign, breaking next...

CHI poaches Munds from M&C Saatchi to steer planning work.(Clemmow Hornby Inge hired Rebecca Munds)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Clemmow Hornby Inge has bolstered its planning department by poaching M&C Saatchi's deputy planning director Rebecca Munds. Munds, who reports to the planning partner Simon Clemmow, will work across several accounts, including the recently...

Former JWT director Cameron Piper dies after lengthy illness.(J. Walter Thompson)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 1, 2003... Cameron Piper, the former broadcast director of J. Walter Thompson and Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB, has died aged 44. His death at his home in Westcliff-on-Sea followed an extensive period of ill health that prevented him working since his...

MEDIA FORUM: Should we rethink the role of audience research?(Barb review; Caroline McDevitt steps down)
August 1, 2003... With Caroline McDevitt stepping down as chief executive after five years, is it time for Barb to review its modus operandi, Alasdair Reid asks. All things considered, Caroline McDevitt had a rough old time of it as the chief executive of...

MEDIA: ZAG - AN EXPERT'S VIEW. Malcolm Cox wonders why BBH couldn't make its magazine as cutting edge as its campaigns.(Bartle Bogle Hegarty)
August 1, 2003... In 1982, Bartle Bogle Hegarty created a poster for Levi's introducing black denim. The ad pictured a flock of sheep going in one direction with a single black sheep heading in the opposite. The line at the bottom of the poster read: 'Black...

MEDIA CHOICE: Francesca Newland, Campaign's news editor, picks Orange's epic ad during last week's Big Brother finale.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 'The curtain has been drawn on Big Brother 2003. The final eviction took place on Friday night and, in keeping with the rest of the series, was a bit of a non-event. 'It is perhaps for this reason that Mother's 210-second spot for Orange...

MEDIA HEADLINER: Mediaedge:cia picks a young Turk to drive agency forward.(Matt James joins Mediaedge:cia)(Biography)
August 1, 2003... Matt James plans to apply perspectives acquired on a year out. As the builders prepared to leave Mediaedge:cia's south London offices, following an extensive modernisation of its grim Paris Gardens headquarters, Matt James was joining as...

MEDIA PERSPECTIVE: Unity's termination won't be subject of Arnie's next movie.(a discussion of Ingram's purchase of Unity)(Column)
August 1, 2003... They're back, Chris and Arnie, Ingram and Schwarzenegger. One fighting those pesky cyborg killing-machines (for the third time); the other fighting the marketing services establishment (for the second time). And while Terminator Arnie's...

MEDIA: SPOTLIGHT ON GUARDIAN MEDIA GROUP - Guardian Media Group bucks the trend of economic gloom.
August 1, 2003... GMG needs to decide which operations it wants to focus on soon, Alasdair Reid says. According to Bob Phillis, the chief executive of Guardian Media Group, the moral to be gleaned from the company's latest set of results is that 'tough...

MEDIA: STRATEGY OF THE WEEK - SONY. Fallon's new Sony campaign tries to connect on a human level, Rachel Gardner writes.(Fallon London launches a 70 million-pound European campaign for Sony)
August 1, 2003... For many years, the electronics giant Sony has been synonymous with the concept of prestige and heritage. But now, through Fallon London's pounds 70 million pound pan-European campaign, the brand seems finally to have developed that...

CLOSE-UP: NEWSMAKER - TIM MELLORS. Mellors brings colourful career to a close at Grey.(an appreciation of Tim Mellors, who has left Grey London)(Biography)
August 1, 2003... Mellors will be recalled for more than his ads, Graham Fink and Glen Mutel report. A biographer examining the past five years of Tim Mellors' professional life could be easily tricked into thinking him a steady grey-beard who bided his...

CLOSE-UP: ON THE CAMPAIGN COUCH ... WITH JB.(interview with former J. Walter Thompson chairman Jeremy Bullmore)(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Q: Last week a story appeared in the trade press saying that my company was reviewing its creative advertising account. To my knowledge this was utterly untrue, so I phoned the editor to complain and, I must admit, lost my rag. However, it has...

CLOSE-UP: LIVE ISSUE - THE INGRAM PARTNERSHIP. Ingram plans to impress with experience rather than scale.(Chris Ingram builds his management consulting business)
August 1, 2003... Chris Ingram's latest outfit will be all about building brands, Claire Beale says. When Chris Ingram sold his Tempus group of companies to WPP in 2001 and pocketed pounds 64 million, anyone who didn't know the man might assume he'd be...

CLOSE-UP: LIVE ISSUE - MARKET RESEARCH. The industry has to focus on some tough questions, Kantar's Eric Salama says.(trends in market research)
August 1, 2003... There is a contradiction at the heart of the market research industry today. Never have clients been so aware of the need to get closer to their customers, of innovating and growing revenues, of optimising their budgets. Most chief...

CLOSE-UP: LIVE ISSUE - TRANSPORT FOR LONDON. Tube spots try to tug at Londoners' heart-strings.(an evaluation of Transport for London)
August 1, 2003... Three agency figures give their views on a campaign to get Londoners travelling. Last weekend Transport for London unveiled a multimedia campaign to convince Londoners that the Tube isn't all bad. In fact, it aimed to persuade them to use...

CLOSE-UP: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - GEOFF SEYMOUR. John Tylee discovers what happened to the man who broke the pounds 100,000 barrier.
August 1, 2003... Funny how certain expressions stay part of the national lexicon well after their origins have been largely forgotten. 'Ruby' remains rhyming slang for a curry even though it's more than 40 years since the late Ruby Murray had her last Top Ten...

EDITORIAL: Sorrell stays clean in Cordiant fallout.(Cordiant shareholders accept WPP's offer)
August 1, 2003... Few people emerge with much credit from the bizarre and protracted battle of the ambulance chasers trailing the terminally ill Cordiant. Not the Cordiant managers whose stubborn pride wouldn't allow them to put the company into play until...

EDITORIAL: Arnold follows his own ideas for Abbey.(Abbey National moves its creative account from Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Luqman Arnold, the Abbey National chief executive, clearly knows his own mind. Never a fan of agency beauty parades, he moved his pounds 27 million creative account from Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper without a pitch; Carat was abandoned for MindShare...

OPINION: MILLS ON ... WOOLWORTHS.
August 1, 2003... They may not thank me for saying this down at BBH Towers, but if there was a perceived weakness in the agency's skill-set, it was its inability to crack big retail accounts. The view set in some years ago with Asda, mitigated only by the...

OPINION: US PERSPECTIVE - Learning to live with the procurement specialist.
August 1, 2003... Are procurement specialists now a fact of life in our world? From a US perspective, the answer is yes. They're fast becoming as ubiquitous as the media auditors of the UK, who themselves are establishing a strong beachhead on this side of the...

CHANGING THE GUARDIANS: Breaking up is hard to do - especially if the relationship has been long-standing and successful.(a look at four cases where advertising clients take their business elsewhere)
August 1, 2003... John Tylee examines four cases where clients took their business elsewhere, despite sterling advertising. Losing a piece of business is rarely an uplifting experience. Disappointment, frustration, anger and the prospect of a dip in income...

PRIVATE VIEW: Tim Delaney, the chairman of Leagas Delaney.(discusses advertising campaigns)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... First stop: to a new campaign for Ribena from Grey. Now I know it is not the done thing to name the agency in a review but this is an agency which is attempting to re-invent itself for about the 100th time and therefore any work that comes...

DIARY: Sumo Cilla snowballs the opposition at AMV.(Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO CEO Cilla Snowball)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Here's proof, if proof were needed, that Cilla 'I don't know how she does it' Snowball really is possessed with extraordinary power. The mother of three, housewife superstar, fills her spare time being the chief executive of Abbott Mead...

DIARY: Tacheback proves it's no hare-brained idea as staff go hair-lipped.(advertising executives grow facial hair for charity)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ever wondered what Tiger Savage would look like with a moustache? You have, haven't you? No? Oh. Well, erm... nor have we. But if you are the type of foul miscreant who sits around fantasising about such a prospect, then you need fantasise...

DIARY: An offer of lunch even David Kershaw would decide to turn down?(Michael Conrad and family are hosting a lunch)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Campaign doesn't have a public service remit but if it did, we'd be fulfilling it this week by publishing the following warning: no matter how desperate you are for a free lunch, make sure you've got a prior booking for Saturday 23 August. ...

DIARY: Mansfield pays heed to Parry's wise words.(Clear Channel International CEO Roger Parry is releasing the book 'The Role of the CEO')(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Everyone knows Roger Parry, the chief executive of Clear Channel International. David Mansfield is certainly familiar with him. Capital Radio's head honcho has been trying to bat away a Clear Channel takeover bid all summer and has pissed Parry...

DIARY: Pick of the week - The Leith Agency/Carling Extra Cold.(evaluation of the Carling Extra Cold posters)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Caroline Marshall likes the Carling Extra Cold posters by The Leith Agency. 'A clever pun on the meaning of the word cold, this, and a typically confident and striking advertising approach from the market leader in draught lager sales.' Art...

DIARY: Turkey of the week - Bates UK/Rennie.(a discussion of a new ad)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ian Darby has been given indigestion by Bates UK's latest ad for Rennie: 'The confusing, cluttered cast of characters doesn't help but the main problem with this ad is its heavy-handed execution and attempt to ram some kind of camp, ironic...

DIARY: Retired major sets up a brothel on Hovis Hill for some extra dough.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... You know there must be something desperately wrong with the world when the words Hovis and brothel appear together in a story. It would seem the once-quiet village of Gold Hill, Dorset (the location used by Ridley Scott for his 1974 Hovis...

DIARY: You must remember.
August 1, 2003... Congratulations to Waldo Wilkinson of brightspace who won last week's quiz. The answers were: 1. 118 118; 2. Levi's; 3. Doritos 3D. The theme was laundrettes. This week, we want you to identify the ads and the theme. Fax your answers to...

McCann lures Howell and Gosper.(Rupert Howell, Brett Gosper will join McCann-Erickson)
August 8, 2003... Rupert Howell is joining McCann-Erickson to take charge of its European network and ensure the London agency has a pivotal role in driving its success. At the same time, Brett Gosper, currently the co-chairman of Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, was...