Campaign articles from June 2006

Campaign archives from June 2006

ITV targets advertisers with AFP.(advertiser-funded programming)
June 30, 2006... Boots, Tesco and Reckitt in talks with broadcaster about content as alternative to traditional spot ads. ITV is talking to Boots, Tesco and Reckitt Benckiser about advertiser-funded programming opportunities as it tries to offset the...

Jonathan Glazer to direct next Sony ad.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Jonathan Glazer is to direct the follow-up to Fallon's Sony 'balls' ad. The script, which is believed to have been written by Juan Cabral, the creative behind 'balls', uses fireworks and paint to illustrate the Sony Bravia LCD TV's...

Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO to create next raft of BBC2 idents.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... BBC2 has chosen Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO to create the next series of its iconic idents. AMV won the business in a pitch against three design agencies. AMV's task will be to create a number of idents to be broadcast on the channel as...

Beck's seeks direct marketing agency.(InBev is hunting for a direct marketing agency)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... InBev is hunting for a direct marketing agency to handle its UK below-the-line business for the beer brand Beck's. InBev is inviting a mixture of roster and non-roster shops to compete. Agencies on the InBev direct roster include BD...

AIS poised for pounds 16m Abbey card account.(Archibald Ingall Stretton)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Abbey is poised to appoint Archibald Ingall Stretton to handle the pounds 16 million direct marketing brief to relaunch its credit cards. AIS is understood to be the only agency left in the running after a pitch conducted by the AAR....

Evans holds talks to revive ad presence.(advertising)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Evans, the Arcadia-owned fashion retailer, is talking to agencies about its advertising account. The retailer is understood to have approached a number of agencies, including Farm and the JWT fashion specialist, JWT Label. Evans,...

AMV wins two Masterfoods ad briefs.(Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO)(advertisements)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has picked up two new briefs from Masterfoods. The agency has been handed the pan-European business for the company's petfood brand, Perfect Fit, and the domestic account for the confectionery brand Milky Way....

MTV seeks digital agency to boost internet TV and mobile programming.(MTV Networks Inc.)(television)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... MTV is understood to be looking for a digital agency to help increase its internet TV and mobile programming activities. The Viacom-owned broadcaster is talking to a number of agencies about providing support for the upcoming launch of a...

MediaVest takes on pounds 5m GHD business.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... GHD, the haircare brand, has awarded its pounds 5 million UK media planning and buying business to MediaVest Manchester following a pitch against three undisclosed agencies. Starcom has been appointed to handled media planning and buying...

UK lags behind rest of world in WPP figures.(United Kingdom)(financial report of WPP Group PLC.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... The UK remains WPP Group's slowest-growing region, according to the company's half-year figures. The advertising group, which owns the JWT and Ogilvy & Mather networks, reported an overall 17 per cent growth in turnover and organic...

Clear Channel Outdoor starts restructure.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Clear Channel Outdoor UK is restructuring following its recent acquisition of the Van Wagner billboard business. It is launching a new premium division to focus on the Van Wagner portfolio of 70 sites in London. The new division has yet...

DDB London picks up Garmin account.(GARMIN International)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... DDB London has scooped the US and pan-European Garmin advertising business after a three-way pitch. DDB triumphed against Fallon Minneapolis and Crispin Porter & Bogusky to pick up the pounds 15 million satellite navigation account...

LMFM nets Emirates digital creative brief.(Lean Mean Fighting Machine)(Dubai airline Emirates)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... The Dubai airline Emirates has appointed Lean Mean Fighting Machine to its digital creative advertising account. The digital agency, which was handed the work without a pitch, will create a microsite and online ad campaign to promote Ice...

JWT imports Hugh Duthie.(JWT London)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... London agency brings in head of planning from TBWA\Chiat\Day New York. JWT has yet again reached across the Atlantic to fill a vacant senior management role. The agency has hired Hugh Duthie, the chief strategic officer at...

Yahoo! hands Carat media duties for launch of Answers.(Yahoo! UK Ltd.)(Carat Company Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Yahoo! has handed the pounds 4 million media brief for the launch of its new search product, Answers, to Carat following a two-way pitch against the incumbent on the main media business, OMD. OMD's position as the retained media agency on...

Defra opts for ad-free drive on climate.(Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)(advertisement)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has decided against using advertising in a pounds 12 million campaign to persuade people to take action to tackle climate change. In a deliberate break with usual government...

Ravel on the hunt for creative agency.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Ravel, the Clarks-owned high-street shoe retailer, is looking for a creative agency for its estimated pounds 1 million advertising account. There is no incumbent agency on the account, as Ravel has previously used an in-house design team...

ASA raps Flora for ads' health claims.(Advertising Standards Authority)(health claims of Unilever Group's advertisement)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Flora is the second brand in the past week to have been blasted for making bogus health claims in its ads. The Unilever-owned spread has been asked to alter ads for its Pro-Activ margarine brand after the Advertising Standards Authority...

AMV duo land June Aerial Award for BT.(Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO)(British Telecom)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Sonny Adorjan and Milo Campbell, the Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO creative team, have won the June Aerial Award for best radio ad. The team's 'total security' spot for BT Broadband was judged to be the best of the month by Simon Griffin, the...

C4 announces Freeview launch date for FilmFour.(Channel Four Television Company Ltd.)(FilmFour channel)
June 30, 2006... The free-to-air FilmFour channel will launch on 23 July and will carry advertising. Channel 4 has confirmed that its channel FilmFour will begin broadcasting free-to-air on 23 July. The launch will be supported by Channel 4's biggest...

JWT moots scholarship in memory of Chrissie Barker.(In memoriam)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... JWT is planning to honour the memory of the former Campaign editor Christine Barker by setting up a scholarship to be named after her. Under the scheme, the JWT group would fund the first year's training of a graduate entrant. Barker,...

AIS beats two to win pounds 1m RNIB business.(Archibald Ingall Stretton)(Royal National Institute for the Blind)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Archibald Ingall Stretton has scooped the pounds 1 million direct marketing account for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. AIS triumphed in a three-way pitch against WWAV Rapp Collins West and the incumbent, Target Direct...

Seven agencies join up for HIV/Aids task.(Lowe Worldwide)(Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Inc.)(Young & Rubicam Brands)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Seven international advertising and marketing agencies have joined together to create a global ad campaign to raise awareness of HIV and Aids. The agencies involved are Cake, Grey Global, JWT, Lowe Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather, Wieden &...

ING Direct kicks off pounds 12m media review.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... ING Direct, the online savings bank, has called a review of its media planning and buying. The bank, which spent pounds 12 million in 2005, according to Nielsen Media Research, uses Media Planning Group to handle planning and buying. ...

Farm and Leith to merge.(Cello Corp.)(Farm Communications)(Leith London)
June 30, 2006... Cello Group intends to merge its new acquisition with its Leith London agency. Cello Group has moved to strengthen its struggling Leith London agency with the acquisition of Farm Communications. The deal, made for an undisclosed sum,...

Mediaedge:cia wins Nintendo UK media.(United Kingdom)(Nintendo Company Ltd.)
June 30, 2006... Nintendo has handed its pounds 5.5 million UK media planning and buying business to Mediaedge:cia following a competitive pitch. The WPP-owned agency won the account from the incumbent, Starcom. Mediaedge:cia's appointment is part of...

AMV's 'noitulove' wins Film Grand Prix.
June 30, 2006... As well as AMV scooping the top Film prize, UK agencies also picked up six out of a total of 12 Film gold Lions awarded. UK advertising had a solid showing in this year's Cannes Festival, with 29 British agencies picking up honours. ...

Media Forum: Should we care about Cannes?(Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival)
June 30, 2006... Should media agencies worry about the UK's showing at Cannes? Grande Bretagne, nul points. How resonant this sounds - and how proud we should feel when we hear those words. We all know many international beauty contests inhabit a surreal,...

Media: Chatter.(opinions of marketing executives)
June 30, 2006... 'If you want a channel to deliver huge audiences, it has to be paid for. You can't have something for nothing.' - Ian McCulloch, the commercial director of ITV, has a clear message for advertisers 'Five years ago, Sorrell told a Yale...

Media: Associated Newspapers confirms appointment of ad director.(Rosemary Gorman)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Associated Newspapers has confirmed Rosemary Gorman's appointment as the ad director of the Evening Standard. Gorman, previously the head of client sales at the Daily Mail, replaces Alan Brydon, who left the Standard last week.

Media: Harrods moves it contract publishing account.(contracts of Harrods and River Publishing)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Harrods has moved its contract publishing account from Conde Nast to River Publishing. River previously published a watches and jewellery title for Harrods, which will now become an annual title. In addition, River will publish three other...

Media: Redwood creates customer magazine for Heyday.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Redwood has created a customer magazine for Heyday, the membership organisation for retired people. The magazine, which will also be called Heyday, targets consumers in the 50-plus age bracket. The bi-monthly title has signed up advertisers...

Media: Thinkbox appoints a research and strategy director.(David Brennan joins Thinkbox )(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Thinkbox has appointed David Brennan to the new role of research and strategy director. Brennan was previously Associated Newspapers' head of group strategic insight. He joins Thinkbox in September and will report to its chief executive, Tess...

Media: Radio Times signs promotional deal with Turner Classic Movies.
June 30, 2006... Radio Times has signed a promotional deal with Turner Classic Movies to back the film channel's annual Crime Wave season. The sponsorship package includes Radio Times opening credits on all films that are part of the month-long season, as...

Media: Ronnnie Scott's appoints John Brown Cirtrus Publishing.(Ronnnie Scott's Jazz Club launches its magazine)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Ronnie Scott's, the Soho jazz venue, has appointed John Brown Citrus Publishing to launch its magazine. Titled Ronnie Scott's, the magazine has been published to coincide with the club's reopening on 26 June after three months of...

Media: National Magazine Company appoints editor of She.
June 30, 2006... The National Magazine Company has appointed Sian Rees as the editor of She. Rees is currently the editor-in-chief for new projects at Hubert Burda Media.

Media: The7stars appointed to promote South-West England.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... A group of bodies representing the South-West of England has appointed the7stars to handle a media planning and buying brief to promote the region. The7stars will work with the integrated agency Space on the activity.

Media: Sony Walkman signs deal with NME.com.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Sony Walkman has signed a six-figure deal with NME.com to support the website's tenth anniversary. Sony will launch a competition called Walkman NME Breaking Bands, which will involve a nationwide search for the hottest new bands.

Media: I-vu appoints head of advertising.(Guy Phelps joins I-vu Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... I-vu, the interactive screen owner, has appointed Guy Phelps as its head of advertising. Phelps, who previously headed sales at Boomerang, will be responsible for developing relationships with advertisers and outdoor specialists.

Media: Cycling Weekly relaunches its website.(cyclingweekly.co.uk)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... The IPC Media title Cycling Weekly has relaunched its website. The site, cyclingweekly.co.uk, has been launched in time for July's Tour de France. It features signposted colour sections, an improved news section and dedicated coverage of the...

Media: Cartoon Network launches broadband presence.
June 30, 2006... Cartoon Network is launching a broadband presence, which will stream video and interactive games. The website, www.SuperCartoonNetwork.co.uk, will also carry advertising.

Media Headliner: ZenithOptimedia's intellectual with ROI mission.(ZenithOptimedia overview)(Gerry Boyle management)(developing Return on Investment )
June 30, 2006... Despite a sometimes aggressive approach, Glaswegian Gerry Boyle is a strategist who makes things happen. The landlord of The Dudley Arms in Paddington could be forgiven for panicking. This week, ZenithOptimedia left its nearby offices...

Media Lifeline: DMGT online.(Calendar)
June 30, 2006... Daily Mail and General Trust is committed to making sure it comes off best in the digital land-grab. 2001: Daily Mail and General Trust has had its fingers burned in the dotcom crash, especially with the failure of CharlotteStreet.com....

Media Perspective: Craze's first year at MPG has brought a degree of success.(Mark Craze)(Media Planning Group)
June 30, 2006... Mark Craze joined Media Planning Group a year ago as its managing partner. His appointment seemed to be an inspired move by the Havas-owned network as it bid to turn around its flagging UK fortunes: with one gesture, it reaffirmed its...

Media: All about ... InStyle's fortunes.(magazine circulation)
June 30, 2006... The UK edition has not quite replicated its US success. When InStyle arrived over here in 2001, some observers speculated that this could be a taste of things to come. They were right, up to a point - but not in the way they originally...

Media: Things we like.(British Broadcasting Corp. virtual-reality websites)(food industry marketing at football matches)(Steve Coogan )
June 30, 2006... THE BBC'S LINK WITH SECOND LIFE The BBC is not the first brand to get involved with the virtual-reality website Second Life (www.secondlife.com), where users create their own virtual characters that drink, eat, sleep and buy products...

Media: Double Standards - 'I thought I would meet women working online'.(interview of David Eastman and Nigel Morris)(Interview)
June 30, 2006... Teaching offline agencies a thing or two about hard work, keeping up with the pace of change in digital and praising those clients who really 'get' the medium. DAVID EASTMAN - MANAGING DIRECTOR, AGENCY.COM - Are clients increasingly...

Media: Strategy Analysis - Microsoft challenges modern myths.
June 30, 2006... Brand: Microsoft UK Clients: Nicola Young, partner development manager; Julie Williams, partner communications manager, Microsoft Target audience: Registered members of the Microsoft Partner Programme Budget: Less than pounds 50,000 ...

Media: A Moment with Marquis.
June 30, 2006... Just remember, someone, somewhere, is fucking up on your behalf.' This more or less summed up the management philosophy of my first boss, Derrick Southon, and, horrible though it sounds, it seemed quite often to be the case. Do it yourself,...

The World: Minneapolis - Fallon counts the cost of creative departures.(top creative heads are leaving the agency)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Three of Fallon Minneapolis' top creative heads are leaving the agency. Roger Camp, who was hired by the former executive creative director Paul Silburn, is leaving without a job to go to. And Stuart Di Resario and Bob Barry are quitting...

The World: Detroit - Modernista takes over dollars 225m Cadillac ad business.(contracts)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... General Motors is moving its dollars 225 million Cadillac account out of Leo Burnett Detroit into Modernista. The Boston-based independent has handled the motor company's Hummer account since 2000, and in March this year was awarded a...

The World: New York - Private consortium take control of Univision.(acquisitions)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... A consortium of five private equity firms has bought Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media group in the US, for dollars 13.7 billion. The group outbid another consortium led by the Mexican media giant Grupo...

The World: Dublin - Chris Rayner becomes managing director at Initiative.(Initiative Dublin)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Chris Rayner (pictured) has been appointed as the managing director of Initiative Dublin. He will replace Colin Clark, who has announced he will retire at the end of the year. Rayner has worked alongside Clark as the deputy managing...

The World: Hong Kong - Andre promoted to new TBWA\Asia-Pacific role.(promotions of Emmanuelle Andre and Michael McCombe)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... TBWA\Asia-Pacific has moved the former New York-based global account director Emmanuelle Andre into the newly created role of regional director. Reporting to Keith Smith, the chairman of TBWA\Asia-Pacific, Andre has been briefed to...

The World: Los Angeles - Jury convicts ad execs of pounds 31m client fraud.(Thomas Rubin and Thomas Sullivan sentences)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... A federal jury has convicted two former advertising executives of stealing more than pounds 31 million from clients. Thomas Rubin, the former chairman and chief executive of the Santa Monica-based agency Focus Media, and its ex-chief...

The World: New York - Young to take over from Drexler at Optimedia.(Antony Young)(Mike Drexler)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Antony Young (pictured), the former chief executive of ZenithOptimedia in the UK, will replace Mike Drexler, Optimedia's chairman in the US, when he retires again in the summer. The New Zealand-born Young began his career with Saatchi &...

The World: Paris - De Rugy joins Naked to manage new Paris operation.(Eric de Rugy)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Eric de Rugy, the former chief executive of Mediaedge:cia France, is joining Naked to run its new office in Paris. De Rugy's team will include Gregory Duquesne, the former managing director of Interpublic's below-the-line agency...

The World: Hamburg - Jung von Matt picks up Mercedes creative account.(Mercedes-Benz)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Mercedes-Benz has moved its above-the-line account out of Interpublic's Springer & Jacoby and into Jung von Matt. The independent has resigned its BMW account to handle the business. It will start work on the account immediately. ...

The World: Mumbai - LG Electronics moves pounds 8m GSM business into Lowe.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... LG Electronics India has moved its pounds 8 million GSM business out of David and into Lowe. Both companies were roster agencies and pitched against each other for the account. Lowe already handles the company's consumer electronics, IT...

The World: Von Kennel plans to join dots in Rapp's network.(Rapp Collins Communications)
June 30, 2006... With the Rapp Collins network in good financial shape, winning a global client is Von Kennel's top priority. Gary Von Kennel, the new and surprisingly low-profile global chief executive of Rapp Collins Worldwide, is actually nothing like...

The World: Insider's View - US.(production processes)
June 30, 2006... The UK's recent agency/production company row may mean it is heading toward a US-style production process, HFI Productions' Kerstin Emhoff says. As a producer who has worked on both sides of the Pond, I can safely say that there has...

Close-Up: Cream of the crop from the Cannes Festival.
June 30, 2006... Back from Cannes after an exhausting week debating and assessing the real reason for the Festival, jurors in eight categories reveal their judging criteria, their frustration at their favourites not winning the Grand Prix and how UK work...

Editorial: French Connection can learn from M&S success.(advertising research)(Editorial)
June 30, 2006... How times change. It seems only a moment ago that French Connection was the darling of the retail sector, a nimble player that could run rings around a staid old has-been such as Marks & Spencer. Now the roles seem to have reversed. At...

Editorial: Sir Martin Sorrell's vision of global unity.(Editorial)
June 30, 2006... So now we know: under Sir Martin Sorrell's curmudgeonly, clerk-like exterior lurks a natural entertainer. WPP's chief executive delivered one of the hit performances at Cannes with his tongue-in-cheek vision of a future in which account...

Opinion: Perspective - Taking advertising's temperature on the Croisette.
June 30, 2006... After six months consuming advertising rather than writing about it, a few days in the south of France with the cream of the ad industry sounded like a gentle reintroduction into the business. How wrong... of course, Cannes is adland at...

Opinion: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.
June 30, 2006... Q: I am a marketer of a large FMCG company. I notice that since the advertising economy has picked up, so has the number of 'jollies' being offered to me and my staff. Where do you advise that one draws the line? A: You should follow the...

Diary: Cannes by numbers.(Statistical data)
June 30, 2006... 0 The number of Film golds won by US agencies. 2 The number of staff at the Japanese agency that beat the global ad community to a Titanium Lion for its 'design barcode' idea. 6 The number of Film golds won by the UK (Sony, Honda,...

Diary: Cannes - parties, people and even the odd pop star.(management of advertising agencies)
June 30, 2006... The usual sense of fun that only a week of sun, sand and rose can produce pervaded this year's awards. Dave 'man of the people' Droga took his jury presidency very seriously. As he tried to keep the whistles of disapproval that generally...

Diary: Water-Cooler Monitor.(Diary entry)
June 30, 2006... WHAT TOPICS HAVE THE INDUSTRY BEEN DISCUSSING THIS WEEK? THE TALK TIME SPENT Martin George and Iain Burns being put on leave at 32 mins 12 secs British Airways? The FBI...

Diary: Pick of the Week - Leo Burnett/Samsung.(advertising)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Noel Bussey is pleasantly surprised by Leo Burnett's latest Samsung spot starring Joe Cole: 'It genuinely comes as a nice surprise when an ad starring a footballer is actually watchable. Burnett's spot has given little Joey Cole a nice...

Diary: Turkey of the Week - Leo Burnett Toronto/'s LCD high-definition TV.(advertising of Samsung)(high-definition television)(Liquid crystal displays)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Ian Darby is amazed Leo Burnett Toronto's latest ad for Samsung's LCD high-definition TV ever got made: 'It's the fact the televisions look so beautiful that makes this ad so unforgivable. The whole scenario is ridiculous: a young man...

Adland's blue plaque tour.
June 30, 2006... Take a walk through the heart of adland and medialand and you will never be far from the sight of an 'historic' event in the industries' history: from the launch of The Mail on Sunday, Saatchi & Saatchi and Channel 4 to the demise of Fleet...

Consumer Insight: Special Report.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... The feature on this page could make people who work in market research growl a little. This is because the observations made are precisely that, observations. And observations made by journalists, of all people. They are not, as any...

Consumer Insight: The new middle class.
June 30, 2006... Alex Benady discovers that Posh Chavs do exist, the best way to reach the Hornby Set, why White Vain Man is important and what makes (Jamie) Oliver's Army really rather dull. Oh for the certainties of a rigid caste system. In the past 40...

Consumer Insight: Silicone sisters.
June 30, 2006... The rise of 'raunch culture' polarises opinion. Some call it a triumph for feminism, others believe it to be a step backwards. Which side should advertising take? Raunch culture is, as the term suggests, all about sex. It's the idea that...

Consumer Insight: From hero to zero.
June 30, 2006... Stereotypes of men in advertising have changed since the days of the rugged Marlboro Man, but is portraying men as incompetent idiots going too far? The portrayal of men in advertising has moved on a bit from the heroic images of the...

Consumer Insight: Race relations.
June 30, 2006... Negative stereotyping is seen as worse than ethnic under-representation in ads, Rob Gray finds. The UK has come a long way since the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex on 22 June 1948 and its Caribbean migrant passengers...

The Work: New Campaigns - UK.(advertising campaigns of Halifax Bank of Scotland, The Number (UK) Ltd. and Fairy Non-bio)
June 30, 2006... ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR - HALIFAX - NEW STARS Project: New stars Client: Steve Griffiths, head of marketing, Halifax Bank of Scotland Brief: Launch the bank's new high-interest current account Creative agency: Delaney Lund Knox Warren &...

The Work: New Campaigns - The World.(marketing campaigns of Oregon Lottery, Cafe Del Mondo and City Sport)
June 30, 2006... OREGON LOTTERY - POWERBALL - US Project: Powerball Client: Carole Hardy, assistant director for marketing, Oregon Lottery Brief: Encourage people to play the lottery, despite the slim chance of winning Creative agency: Borders Perrin...

The Work: Private View.(Steve Henry shares his experiences at TBWA/London)
June 30, 2006... CREATIVE - Steve Henry, executive creative director, TBWA\London I do not know who has got the better system - Campaign or Viz. In the guidelines for this column, Campaign tells you not to mention the creators of the ads, but to...

Movers: Appointment at Euro RSCG 4D.(David Brown)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Euro RSCG 4D has promoted David Brown to creative director as part of a shake-up of its creative department. Mike Watson (pictured) has been promoted to the newly created post of head of copy. In his new role, Brown will lead a team of 15...

Movers: Appointment at Us.(Keith Martin)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Us, the boutique ad agency, has hired Keith Martin as its client services director. Martin joins from Bartle Bogle Hegarty, where he was an account director on Flora and Vodafone. During his time there, he worked on Flora worldwide and ran...

Movers: Appointment at VCCP.(Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest)(Dave Gibson)(Ben Webster)(Nick Windsor)(Matt Gilbert)(David Tokley)(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... VCCP has strengthened its creative and account teams with five new hirings. Dave Gibson and Ben Webster arrive from Australia where they worked together for the past five years, most recently at JWT. Before that, they worked at Clemenger...

Movers: Appointment at Conde Nast.(Brief article)
June 30, 2006... Conde Nast has promoted Albert Read to the new role of general manager of its UK office. Read was previously the deputy planning director of Conde Nast International and the business director of Conde Nast Asia-Pacific, during which time...