Campaign articles from August 2007

Campaign archives from August 2007

Capital One kicks off pounds 10m DM pitch.(direct marketing)(contracts with advertising agencies)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Capital One has kick-started a review of its pounds 10 million UK direct marketing account. Until now, the credit-card company has used a single retained agency, WWAV Rapp Collins, to handle its direct marketing, but it now plans to...

Great Ormond St in hunt for ad agency.(Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity)(advertising)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is talking to ad agencies about a brief to devise a new brand positioning for the organisation. The charity's communications and marketing director, Lesley Miles, confirmed it is looking for...

DDB poised to land R&SA global brief.(Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Royal & SunAlliance is poised to appoint DDB to its multi-million-pound global advertising brief. The insurance giant is meeting with the agency today (Thursday) to finalise an agreement. The search was handled by the AAR. The other...

M&C scoops pounds 34m Jameson ad task.(contracts of M&C Saatchi London and Pernod Ricard UK Ltd.)(advertising)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Pernod Ricard has appointed M&C Saatchi to the pounds 34 million global advertising account for its Jameson Irish whiskey brand. The agency won the business after a shoot-out against Fred Farid Lambert, following a five-month pitch process,...

John Lewis seeks digital agency.(John Lewis Partnership PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... John Lewis is looking for an agency to handle its digital advertising account. The retailer has approached several London shops, with a view to holding a pitch later on in the year. The review is being handled by The Haystack Group. It is...

Bainsfair, Sharkey reunite.(Paul Bainsfair and John Sharkey to form advertising agencies)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Former partners Paul Bainsfair and John Sharkey plot digital advertising venture. Paul Bainsfair is set to team up with his former business partner John Sharkey, and plans to launch a digital advertising business. The pair, who along...

Arthur Parshotam splits from DraftFCB.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Arthur Parshotam, the creative director at DraftFCB, has parted company with the agency after nine years in the role. It is understood that he has left without a job to go to. His exit follows the appointment of Logan Wilmont, who joined...

Dare nominated for ten digital awards.(Dare Digital)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Dare is the most shortlisted agency by a considerable distance in the 2007 Campaign Digital Awards, which are to be held on 19 September. The agency has received ten nominations for its clients Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, Barclays, the AA,...

MediaVest lands Barratt homes media brief.(Barratt Developments PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Barratt Developments has appointed the London-based MediaVest and MediaVest Manchester to handle its pounds 12 million planning and buying account. The home construction group previously used MediaCom North to handle the bulk of the...

WWAV scoops AIG DM account.(contracts of AIG Life Insurance Co. and WWAV Rapp Collins)(direct marketing)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... WWAV Rapp Collins has scooped the pounds 10 million direct marketing account for the US insurance company AIG. WWAV landed the business following a competitive pitch against several undisclosed agencies. AIG does not have a retained...

Goldfish reverses its plans to pitch.
August 3, 2007... Goldfish has made a U-turn on a proposed pitch for its above-the-line account and has opted to stay with Grey London. The Morgan Stanley-owned credit-card company approached a number of agencies last week, inviting them to give creds...

Green to head up Fallon London.(Laurence Green)
August 3, 2007... New role for planning partner as Senior prepares to divide time between Fallon and Saatchis London. Laurence Green, the Fallon London planning partner, is expected to be confirmed as the new head of the agency. The move follows Robert...

BP seeks agency for forecourt shops.(British Petroleum Company PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... BP is on the hunt for an agency to handle direct marketing for its BP Connect forecourt shops. The oil supplier has approached a number of undisclosed agencies with a view to holding a pitch. BP's in-house marketing team will manage the...

Foster's won by EHS Brann Cirencester.(contracts of Scottish & Newcastle Breweries PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The international brewing group Scottish & Newcastle is understood to have appointed EHS Brann Cirencester to the pounds 5 million direct and digital marketing account for Foster's. The agency landed the business following a three-way...

Beattie McGuinness Bungay to design First Choice's Boeing 787 fleet.(First Choice Holidays PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Beattie McGuinness Bungay is to move into aircraft livery design after its client First Choice appointed the agency to design the interior and exterior of its fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The brief will involve conception and design of...

Reed.co.uk calls pitch for creative account.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Reed.co.uk, one of the UK's biggest recruitment websites, is looking for a creative agency to handle its advertising account. The site, which is owned by the recruitment agency Reed, has approached five undisclosed agencies for chemistry...

Outdoor adspend continues to grow.(advertising)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The outdoor advertising market has continued its pattern of growth with its 20th successive quarter of year-on-year increase. Spend on outdoor in the second quarter of 2007 rose by 8.5 per cent on the same period in 2006 to reach pounds...

The OU hands pounds 4m online task to Zed.(contracts of Open University and Zed Media)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The Open University has appointed Zed Media to handle its pounds 4 million online planning and buying account as it attempts to attract new students to its courses. Zed won the business following a four-way pitch against MEC Interaction,...

The Week: Advertising News - 'Green' launch for Juice.(contracts of Npower and Streetbroadcast)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The electricity and gas supplier NPower is to launch what it claims will be the UK's first eco-friendly advertising campaign, using solar- and wind-powered poster sites. The ad push, which is due to launch in September, will use 100 sites owned...

The Week: Advertising News - Spots cheapest since 80s.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The UK television advertising market is set to stabilise this year and will grow in 2008, according to a report from ZenithOptimedia. The report predicts ad revenue growth of 2 per cent next year, but adds that growth is likely to be static...

The Week: Advertising News - Ofcom raps Classic FM.(Office of Communications)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Classic FM has been rapped by the media regulator Ofcom for running a radio ad for The Spectator magazine that criticised Tony Blair's record as prime minister. Ofcom made the ruling after receiving two complaints that the ad constituted...

The Week: Advertising News - Morph gets eco make-over.(Friends of the Earth)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Friends of the Earth has brought back Morph, the Plasticine children's TV star, in a viral video to promote a new film-making competition. In the 30-second video, Morph offers tips on how to be eco-friendly and changes from his usual brown...

The Week: Advertising News - Virgin and Sky spends soar.(Virgin Media Group Ltd.)(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Virgin Media and BSkyB have spent pounds 92 million between them on advertising in the five months to June this year as they fought for subscribers in the wake of their row over carriage rights. According to figures from Nielsen Media Research,...

The Week: Media News - Profits rise for Haymarket.(Haymarket Group)(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Haymarket Group, the publisher of Campaign and headed by Lord Heseltine, has reported a 3.1 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to pounds 30 million and a 6.6 per cent jump in revenues to pounds 244.4 million for the year to 31 December, 2006....

The Week: Media News - Setanta airs on broadband.(contracts of Setanta Sports and Barclays Premier League and signed with Desmond Michael Lynam )(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Setanta Sports is to offer its live Barclays Premier League coverage via broadband, and has signed Des Lynam as part of its presenting line-up. Setanta By Broadband will offer live access to Setanta's sports coverage for pounds 7.99 a month, in...

The Week: Media News - Freebies overtake paid-fors.
August 3, 2007... The Manchester Evening News now distributes more free copies than it sells, according to figures released this week. The paper revealed that paid-for sales, which number around 88,000 copies, are now below its audited free distribution figure...

The Week: Media News - Publishers unite over bins.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Associated Newspapers and News International, the publishers of London Lite and thelondonpaper respectively, have agreed to team up to buy 80 co-branded recycling bins in Westminster in a bid to keep their distribution rights in the borough....

The Week: Media News - Men's free weekly gets set.(Mike Soutar)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The new free men's weekly magazine from the former FHM editor Mike Soutar is to be called ShortList, and will launch on 20 September. Of the planned 500,000 distribution, 360,000 copies will be handed out in London, with the launch backed by a...

The Week: Media News - Virgin Mobile scraps TV.(Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd.)(television)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Virgin Mobile has scrapped its mobile television service less than 12 months after it was launched, after its technology partner BT disbanded its Movio division because of poor customer demand. The service, which broadcast BBC1, ITV1, Channel...

The Week: Media News - Heat radio gets reworked.(Emap Digital Ltd.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Emap is dropping ad spots on Heat radio in favour of sponsorship, promotions and ad-funded programming. As part of a relaunch planned for September, the digital radio station will work exclusively with five clients, whose advertising will be...

The Week: Media News - John Brown wins RBS pitch.(contracts with National Westminster Bank PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... John Brown has won a six-way pitch to publish a new quarterly magazine for RBS and NatWest customers. The title, which will be sent to between three and four million people from 2008, will be one of the top three magazines by circulation in the...

The Week: Duncan Bird to launch Another Anomaly in New York.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Duncan Bird, the founder and former managing director of Soul, is to launch a new agency model in New York backed by Carl Johnson, the founder of the independent agency Anomaly. The company, to be called Another Anomaly, will launch its own...

The Week: Best of the blogs.
August 3, 2007... GEOGRAPHICAL HIERARCHIES We're wondering if there's a correlation between agencies' work and the area they're in. What's tricky about analysing something like that is you have to go out on a limb and say that certain agencies are crap...

The Week: City News - Amstrad sold to BSkyB.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... BSkyB has bought Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad company for pounds 125 million this week, in a deal that surprised the City. The 150p-a-share cash offer for the technology company was made at a 24 per cent premium to share price. Sugar has netted a...

The Week: City News - Emap announces review.(Apax Partners Worldwide L.L.P. bought Emap Digital Ltd.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Apax, the private equity company, has tabled an informal bid to buy Emap's business-to-business division, including Construction News and Retail Week, for pounds 1.3 billion. The approach, despite being at an early stage, is understood to have...

The Week: City News - Pearson profits 'treble'.(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Pre-tax profits at Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, nearly trebled to pounds 40 million in the first half of 2007, while profits at its newspaper division were up by 28 per cent, thanks to more readers both online and in print. The...

The Week: City News - Chrysalis' Phil Riley quits.(Chrysalis Radio Group)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Chrysalis Radio's chief executive, Phil Riley, has resigned following the completion of the company's pounds 170 million acquisition by Global Radio this week. Riley had been expected to stay on, but instead will take some time off before...

The Week: City News - Publicis posts revenue rise.(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Publicis posted an organic growth rate of just 0.5 per cent for the second quarter of this year. The group blamed client losses and slow performance in the US for the results, which included declines of 1.1 per cent in Europe and 0.6 per cent...

The Week: City News - BSkyB subscribers up.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... BSkyB announced its revenues were up 10 per cent to pounds 4.5 billion for the year ending 30 June, and that it had added 406,000 subscribers, bringing subscriber numbers up to 8.58 million. Since pulling its channels from its cable rival...

The Week: City News - SearchWorks sold for pounds 56m.(TradeDoubler)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... TradeDoubler, the European online ad company, has bought the search marketing agency TheSearchWorks for pounds 56 million. Under the deal, TradeDoubler has bought IMW Group, SearchWorks' parent company, and TheTechnologyWorks, its other trading...

The Week: People News - New Boots marketing chief.(appointment of Elizabeth Fagan at Boots Company PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Boots has named Elizabeth Fagan, the managing director of Boots Opticians, as its new marketing director. Fagan replaces Andrew Brent, who is understood to have moved to take a global marketing role within the company

The Week: Advertising News - Yahoo! calls ad pitch.
August 3, 2007... Yahoo! has called a pitch for its pounds 2.6 million creative account. It plans to consolidate the business into a single agency and launch a series of campaigns for services outside of its core search engine product. The company works with a...

The Week: Advertising News - COI to run elections pitch.(Electoral Commission)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The Electoral Commission is holding a review for the elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, which are due to take place on 1 May 2008. Four agency partnerships: Farm and Experience; Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy and...

The Week: Advertising News - CST wins Sacla shoot-out.(Chick Smith Trott)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Sacla, the Italian pasta sauce brand, has appointed Chick Smith Trott to its pounds 4 million creative account following a pitch that involved Farm, VCCP and Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy. Farm has previously worked on a project basis for the...

The Week: Advertising News - Leagas wins Body Shop.
August 3, 2007... Leagas Delaney is understood to have beaten Publicis and Karmarama to scoop the creative account for The Body Shop. The review was handled by the AAR. Meanwhile, VTech, the toy manufacturer, has appointed Leagas Delaney to oversee its pounds 2...

The Week: Media Reviews - Toshiba calls pounds 5m review.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Toshiba has called a review of its pounds 5 million media planning and buying account. It is also planning a European review. UK pitches are expected in mid-August

The Week: Media Reviews - Magnet reviews media task.
August 3, 2007... Magnet, the kitchen-maker, is reviewing its pounds 9 million media brief. The pitch is being handled by the marketing and design director Anjum Ahmed

The Week: Media Reviews - OMD quits pounds 12m Axa pitch.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... OMD Connect has pulled out of the pitch for Axa's pounds 12 million media account, leaving just Carat, Media Planning Group and MindShare in the running. OMD Connect was set up in 1999 as a joint venture between OMD and WWAV Rapp Collins Media,...

The Week: Digital Reviews - FT in hunt for digital shop.(Financial Times Ltd.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The Financial Times has called a pitch to find a digital agency to develop an online strategy for its 'We live in Financial Times' campaign. Previously it worked with agencies on a project basis

The Week: Thorntons and MCBD part as pounds 2m ad account is reviewed.(Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy)(advertising)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Thorntons, the chocolate manufacturer and retailer, is reviewing its pounds 2 million advertising account out of Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy. The review, which will be handled by Agency Insight, has been called by mutual agreement...

The Week: i-Q - The internet question - Is Carlsberg right to use Bryan Ferry?
August 3, 2007... Why were Bryan Ferry's comments odd? The Nazis were a bunch of frustrated art directors (they liked black, had read only one book and couldn't cope with criticism). Hitler's only paid employment was as a designer of a series of deodorant...

The World: New York - Rasmussen takes on Nike creative role at R/GA.(Robert Rasmussen)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The digital agency R/GA has appointed Robert Rasmussen as the executive creative director on the Nike account, a position previously held by Nick Law, now the chief creative officer. Rasmussen will be responsible for shaping the creative...

The World: New York - Aegis set to merge Carat USA with Carat Fusion.(Aegis Group PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Aegis is merging its Carat USA agency with its sister digital operation Carat Fusion. Ray Warren, the president of Carat USA, will be relinquishing his role. Sarah Fay, the chief executive of Isobar, which co-ordinates all of Carat's digital...

The World: London - Malegori promoted to MindShare development role.(MindShare Worldwide)(Giulio Malegori)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Giulio Malegori has been promoted to the role of the business development director for MindShare Worldwide. In this role, Malegori will report directly to the MindShare chief executive, Dominic Proctor. He will take on responsibility for...

The World: Moscow - Central and eastern Europe upgrading to digital TV.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... New research from Informa Telecoms & Media has found that central and eastern Europe is making great strides in the upgrade to digital TV The report reveals that the eight million digital homes at present will grow to 34.8 million by 2012....

The World: Shanghai - O&M wins five-way fight for Suntory whisky brief.(Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Inc.)(Suntory Ltd.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Ogilvy & Mather has landed a brief to reposition Suntory's whisky portfolio in China after seeing off competition from the Japanese agencies Dentsu, Hakuhodo, Asatsu-DK and Daiko to secure the business Ogilvy's task is to shift perceptions of...

The World: San Francisco - David Verhoef joins Publicis & Hal Riney.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Publicis & Hal Riney has appointed David Verhoef as the director of integrated production. Verhoef will lead the integrated production group and oversee all broadcast, interactive and digital production. Verhoef joins from DDB San Francisco,...

The World: Paris - Havas Group reveals 'satisfactory' first-half results.(Havas UK Ltd.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Havas has recorded a small rise in first-half revenues. They are up 1.3 per cent to EUR729 million, and it put in a strong performance in terms of organic growth, with a good showing from the UK. The group, which described its first-quarter...

The World: Stockholm - Jensen rejoins Metro as its chief executive.(Metro International)(Per Mikael Jensen)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Per Mikael Jensen has been named as the new chief executive of the free newspaper group Metro International. Jensen, who is currently the chief executive of Denmark's TV2, previously worked at Metro International as the global editor-in-chief....

The World: Shanghai - Publicis Groupe buys Chinese comms company.
August 3, 2007... Publicis Groupe has acquired China's largest independent interactive marketing agency, Communication Central Group. It will be rebranded as Digitas Greater China, as part of the deal. Neil Runcieman, the founder of CCG, will become the...

The World: Taipei - Carrefour severs six-year tie-up with Saatchis.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Taiwan's leading hypermarket retailer, Carrefour, has ended its six-year relationship with Saatchi & Saatchi, sparking a round of redundancies at the agency. Earlier this month, Carrefour named Leo Burnett Taiwan as its agency-of-record for its...

The Work: New campaigns - UK.
August 3, 2007... SMIRNOFF - SEA CREDITS Project: Sea Clients: Anita Robinson, brand director; Julie Bramham, Smirnoff senior brand manager, Diageo GB Brief: Re-establish the purity of Smirnoff Creative agencies: JWT London, AKQA (digital) Writers:...

The Work: New campaigns - The world.
August 3, 2007... AXE - SHOWER GEL - LEBANON CREDITS Project: Shower gel Client: Mohammed Ameen, category director, Unilever Brief: Translate the Axe effect theme into Axe shower gel advertising Creative agency: Lowe MENA Writer: Clinton Manson Art...

Diary: For shame! A Northerner who can't hold his ale.(Russell Ramsey leave Bartle Bogle Hegarty Ltd. and appointed at JWT Group Inc.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... As Russell Ramsey prepares to leave Bartle Bogle Hegarty to join JWT as its executive creative director, the agency decided to throw him an extra-special leaving do. After an intense brainstorming session, during which the BBH senior...

Diary: One too many tools on display in Publicis 'ad'.(advertising campaign)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... It is a commonly held view that the French have a more relaxed attitude to explicit content in advertising than most other countries. But it appears that sometimes our Gallic cousins can create something that even they think goes a step too...

Diary: RPM as right as rain after flood-fighting heroics.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... The experiential marketing agency RPM wasn't exactly singing in the rain last week, after it was badly hit by floods. While many Soho agencies didn't experience so much as a dripping ceiling, staff at the Shepherds Bush-based shop all had...

Diary: Adland's cool creatives are just luvvies at heart.(use of show tunes as soundtracks in advertisements)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Being an industry that predicts, identifies and exploits trends for its clients' benefit, it can only be expected that the creators of ads will follow their own little fashions. Indeed, one of Diary's spies has spotted a worrying recent...

Diary: Pick of the week - Tribal DDB/Volkswagen's sponsorship of The Bourne Ultimatum.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Noel Bussey can see hours of his life evaporating on Tribal DDB's 3D stunt simulator for Volkswagen's sponsorship of The Bourne Ultimatum: 'The detail on this web-based promotion is amazing, and if you put the time in, you get so much out....

Diary: Turkey of the week - JWT/HSBC.(JWT London)(HSBC Holdings PLC)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... HSBC's latest ad by JWT makes Francesca Newland cringe: 'Pass the sick bucket. Corporations have woken up to the fact that a strong green message can be an effective marketing tool. However, if the message comes across as insincere, it is...

Diary: Water-cooler monitor.
August 3, 2007... WHAT TOPICS HAVE THE INDUSTRY BEEN DISCUSSING THIS WEEK? THE TALK TIME SPENT M&C Saatchi's argumentative MFI ad - now 9 mins 58 secs dubbed into Spanish. The agency is...

Diary: On the QT ..(briefs)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... With barely two weeks having passed since the story broke about Robert Senior turning half his attention to Saatchi & Saatchi, it was brought to our attention that the Fallon founding partner is already having to make room in his diary for...

Pitch update.
August 3, 2007... Lowe and Leo Burnett in London are taking on McCann Erickson Germany for the global Beck's account. The pitches are taking place this week, with a fast-turnaround result scheduled for next week. Burnett already handles the UK business, which is...

New-business Rankings: 3 August 2007.(Table)(Company rankings)
August 3, 2007... Rank Rank Agency/ Total Total Net Wins this last Last three wins billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Hotline: News Corporation to acquire Dow Jones and Company.
August 3, 2007... News Corporation is to acquire Dow Jones and Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in a deal worth dollars 5.6 billion. The deal was approved yesterday when negotiations persuaded the majority of Bancroft family shareholders, which...

Hotline: Miele appoints Poulters.(Graham Poulter Advertising)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Miele, the domestic appliances manufacturer, has appointed Poulters, the Leeds-based creative agency, to handle its pounds 3 million account. The agency will be briefed with developing a brand campaign that will launch in early 2008

Hotline: David Reid to join MediaVest as head of planning.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... David Reid, a partner at the communications planning agency Experience, is joining MediaVest as head of planning. The former Mediaedge:cia planner was one of the founders of Experience in 2004

Hotline: Proximity Worldwide promotes Paul Bennett.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Proximity Worldwide has promoted Paul Bennett to the position of managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his new role, Bennett will take on responsibility for driving growth across the Proximity network. Bennett joined...

Hotline: Partners Andrews Aldridge poaches Suzy Ray.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Partners Andrews Aldridge has poached Rapier's new-business director, Suzy Ray, to take on the role of head of marketing. Ray will replace Nina Jasinski, who left to join Leo Burnett in June

Hotline: Guardian Media Group increases its profits.(Financial report)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Guardian Media Group has increased its profits to pounds 97.7 million for the year to 1 April 2007, up from pounds 66.4 million the previous year. Turnover increased to pounds 716 million from pounds 700 million on the back of increased...

Hotline: Ian Redman is joining PHD as managing partner.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Ian Redman, the business development director at Mediaedge:cia, is joining PHD as a managing partner. He will take responsibility for key accounts and for PHD Consult, the agency's consumer insight and research division. He will also have an...

Hotline: Getty Images makes redundancies.
August 3, 2007... Getty Images is making almost 100 people redundant from its global operations. The job losses will mainly affect its London and Seattle headquarters

Hotline: Seeds of Change signs sponsorship deal.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Seeds of Change, the organic food producer, has signed a sponsorship deal across 200 hours of content on UKTV Food and UKTV Gardens. Seeds of Change will sponsor the eight-week 'Grow Your Own Season' on UKTV Gardens, and will also back UKTV...

Hotline: Trinity Mirror sells local titles to Tindle Newspapers.(Tindle Newspapers)(Trinity Mirror Newspapers)(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Trinity Mirror has sold 27 of its London and South-East local titles to Tindle Newspapers for pounds 19 million in cash. Businesses sold include the South London Press and the Yellow Advertiser

Close-Up: Live issue - The real 'Mad Men' of 1960s Madison Avenue.(Adland: A Global History of Advertising)(Excerpt)
August 3, 2007... Mark Tungate, author of a new book about the history of advertising, takes a look at the industry's golden age in New York. I wasn't surprised to learn that the latest TV series causing a buzz in the US is set in 60s Madison Avenue. Mad Men...