Campaign articles from June 2007

Campaign archives from June 2007

Lastminute reviews European agencies.(Lastminute.com PLC)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Lastminute.com is reviewing its pounds 10 million pan-European agency relationships, and is set to hire OMD to handle its media planning and buying. Sources suggest that OMD is about to replace Smarter Communications as the travel...

HTW scoops pounds 18m Orange DM account.(Harrison Troughton Wunderman)(direct marketing )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Harrison Troughton Wunderman has scooped the pounds 18 million consolidated Orange direct marketing account. The agency picked up the business following a four-way shoot-out against Chemistry and the incumbents, WWAV Rapp Collins and...

JWT hires BBH's Ramsey.(resignation of Russell Ramsey at JWT London)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Russell Ramsey quits BBH after 17 years to take creative helm at JWT London. JWT has poached Russell Ramsey, the Bartle Bogle Hegarty deputy executive creative director, to fill the vacant post of executive creative director at its...

Ocado picks CHI to spearhead TV drive.(CHI & Partners)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Ocado, the online supermarket service that delivers Waitrose goods, has hired CHI & Partners to mastermind its first TV campaign. The company signed CHI without a formal pitch, and will launch its campaign in September, backed by a...

Budweiser calls pitch for pounds 3.5m UK ad task.
June 29, 2007... Anheuser-Busch has called a pitch for its pounds 3.5 million Budweiser UK advertising brief. Euro RSCG London and Budweiser's roster shops DDB London and Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R will battle it out for the task. The pitch is...

New PM to take COI into 'MySpace era'.(Central Office of Information )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Gordon Brown's new Government plans to reform the Whitehall communications machine in a move that will put pressure on COI to make greater use of new media. One minister said: 'COI has adopted more modern techniques in recent years, but...

Royal Mint reviews pounds 3m media brief.(Royal Mint )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The Royal Mint is reviewing its pounds 3 million media planning and buying account, which is currently held by Manning Gottlieb OMD. It has issued a tender document to interested agencies, inviting them to pitch for the account. This...

Emap hires Stewart as marketing chief.
June 29, 2007... Emap Consumer Media has appointed the former Diageo and Allied Domecq marketer Simon Stewart to the new role of chief marketing officer. Stewart, who was most recently the senior vice-president of global development at Publicis, will...

Keevill joins Kitcatt Nohr as creative director.(Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw appointed Phil Keevill)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw has appointed Phil Keevill, the last remaining founder of the direct marketing agency Keevill Barton Kershaw, to take the role of partner and creative director. The appointment is the final nail in the coffin...

Publicis revamps UK structure.(Publicis Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Publicis has restructured its UK group and will not replace its outgoing chairman, Tim Lindsay. The group will now be split into three separate hubs: Publicis, Publicis Dialogue and Publicis Modem. Paul Edwards, the chief strategy...

Zenith loses pounds 18m Paramount to MEC.(ZenithOptimedia )(UK Paramount Pictures )(Mediaedge:cia)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... ZenithOptimedia has lost the pounds 18 million UK Paramount Pictures business as part of Paramount's dollars 870 million global consolidation into Mediaedge:cia. The account, which includes Paramount Studios and Dreamworks Studios, joins...

ABC considers figures overhaul.(Audit Bureau of Circulations)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Audit Bureau of Circulations report challenges publishers to provide more frequent readership data. Newspapers and magazines will be challenged to implement major changes to the way they report audience figures in a new report...

Victoria Davies steps down at TBWA.(TBWA\London)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Victoria Davies, the managing director of TBWA\London, has resigned without a job to go to. Davies tendered her resignation to TBWA\London's chief executive, Matt Shepherd-Smith, this week. She would not confirm her plans, but said...

Snoxell and Todd promoted at PAA.(appointments of Paul Snoxell and Andy Todd)(Partners Andrews Aldridge)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Paul Snoxell and Andy Todd, the creative team who founded the direct marketing agency DS-J, have been promoted to joint creative directors at Partners Andrews Aldridge. They will take over from Shaun Moran, who left the agency to join...

BLM retains pounds 3m Pathe media business.(contracts of BLM Media and Pathe)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Pathe, the film distribution company behind hit movies including The Queen, has retained BLM Media as its media planning and buying agency. The agency maintained its grip on the pounds 7 million account after a pitch process, run through...

Agency required to promote Freedom Pass.
June 29, 2007... London Councils, an umbrella group for local authorities, is on the hunt for an agency to advertise the Freedom Pass, the free travelcard for residents aged over 60. The organisation has approached several London-based advertising...

Associated to boost Metro's circulation.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Metro, the Associated Newspapers title, is to increase its London distribution by almost 50 per cent. The newspaper has been discussing its plans for an increase with agencies for several months (Campaign, 16 February) and has now decided...

StatoilHydro names ad and media team.(McCann-Erickson WorldGroup)(Universal McCann)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... McCann Erickson World Group and Universal McCann have won the creative and media duties for StatoilHydro after a pitch against an undisclosed group of Norwegian and international agencies. McCann's London and Oslo offices will lead...

The Week: Advertising News - Govt praises adland.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The creative industries are as important to Britain's economy as the financial services sector, according to a report from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport through the think tank The Work Foundation. Creative sectors including...

The Week: Advertising News - Tube bans Living TV poster.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... An ad for the Living TV show Britain's Next Top Model featuring 12 scantily clad women sprawled on the floor has been banned by London Underground bosses for being too sexy. The channel has produced a toned-down version of the ad, which...

The Week: Advertising News - Adspend rises by 3 per cent.(Brief article)(Statistical data)
June 29, 2007... UK adspend rose by 3 per cent in the first quarter of 2007 to pounds 4.2 billion, the largest first-quarter increase since 2005, bolstered mainly by growth in digital. Internet adspend was up 42 per cent year on year to pounds 648...

The Week: Advertising News - Internet to grow to pounds 4.5bn.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Separately, a report has predicted that internet adspend alone will jump to pounds 4.5 billion per year and will account for 30 per cent of the entire ad market by 2011. The PricewaterhouseCoopers research added that globally, the internet...

The Week: Advertising News - Nintendo hires Kidman.(Nicole Kidman endorses with Nintendo Company Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Nicole Kidman has been signed up to star in a pan-European TV launch campaign for Nintendo's More Brain Training computer game. The spot shows Kidman at home playing the game and revealing her brain age at the end of the ad

The Week: Samsung signs Girls Aloud.(partnerships of Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Samsung Electronics has signed a commercial partnership with the pop band Girls Aloud. The company hopes the tie-up will help it form a new music strategy to promote its products and will see Samsung and Girls Aloud create joint products and...

The Week: Mastercard drops Fifa case.(cases of MasterCard International Inc. against International Federation of Association Football dropped)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Mastercard is to drop its legal fight to get sponsorship of the next two football World Cups as part of a dollars 90 million settlement hammered out with the football governing body Fifa. The credit-card company, which has sponsored the...

The Week: IPA reveals awards entries.
June 29, 2007... There have been 42 entries from 28 agencies for the 2007 IPA Effectiveness Awards (for agencies with income of up to pounds 20 million), for brands including Coca-Cola Zero, Weetabix and Tesco. There were 13 entries from London, six from...

The Week: Media News - Sky hits out at Ofcom probe.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC planned to launch Ofcom next year)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... BSkyB has hit out at Ofcom's consultation over its plan to replace some of its free channels with pay-TV services on Freeview. Ofcom will launch the review in the autumn, which will delay Sky's plans until next year. Sky had aimed to...

The Week: Media News - NatMags axes CosmoGirl!(National Magazine Company Ltd. stops services)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The National Magazine Company is to axe its teen monthly CosmoGirl! from its August issue and will close its website cosmogirl.co.uk NatMags will continue with its online magazine Jellyfish, which it launched in March to test the potential of...

The Week: Media News - Magic 105.4 sponsors ENB.(contracts of Emap Magic 105.4 and English National Ballet company)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Emap's Magic 105.4 has signed a year-long partnership with the English National Ballet, which begins this week with a campaign promoting the ENB's performance of Swan Lake at the Palace of Versailles. The station will run 30-second trails for...

The Week: Media News - Pearson withdraws bid.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Pearson, the Financial Times' owner, and the NBC owner, General Electric, have backed out of their joint bid for Dow Jones, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, leaving Rupert Murdoch's News Corp as the sole prospective purchaser. Pearson...

The Week: Media News - Bmi to sponsor Vaughan.(Johnny Vaughan's Breakfast Show)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Capital 95.8 has signed the airline bmi as the pounds 1 million sponsor of Johnny Vaughan's Breakfast Show. The year-long deal includes online and on-air activity and will focus on the brand's 'that's bmi time' strategy encouraging customers...

The Week: AA and Saga merger will prompt pounds 40m media review.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The merger between the AA and the over-50s specialist Saga will result in a pitch for the combined company's pounds 40 million media account. The review will pit Saga's agency Carat against PHD, the incumbent on the AA account and,...

The Week: Best of the Blogs.(Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... THE KILLJOYS AT THE BACC So the killjoys at the BACC have banned the 'go to work on an egg' campaign. Anyone who cares about the freedom to advertise should hop on a soapbox now, galvanise the Action for Ads campaign and tell the BACC to...

The Week: Online News - Man U to boost fan base.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Manchester United is in talks with WPP, Publicis, McCann Worldgroup and Omnicom about a global partnership to push the club's online fan base up to 50 million. Manchester United's current online database of fans stands at four million, and it...

The Week: Online News - Blinkx unveils ad platform.(Blinkx launched AdHoc video advertising tool)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The video search engine Blinkx has launched a video advertising platform called AdHoc. The tool translates video content from speech to text, which means users can be targeted with contextual ads based on words that appear in the video they...

The Week: Online News - Bebo turns to Yahoo!(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Bebo, the social networking website, has dropped Google as its search partner in favour of Yahoo!, and now allows users to search the whole internet from within the site. Bebo has denied reports that it is in discussions with Yahoo! about a...

The Week: Online News - EC approves YouTube rival.(bids of The News Corporation Ltd. and National Broadcasting Company Inc. approved)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The European Commission has approved a bid by News Corp and NBC to be allowed to create a rival video-sharing website to YouTube. The as-yet-unnamed venture will focus more on broadcast rather than user-generated content and will reportedly...

The Week: City News - WPP warns on UK market.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... WPP Group has started the year with like-for-like revenues up 5.2 per cent over the first five months of 2007, but warned the UK is proving a tough market. The pace of growth quickened in the first two months of the second quarter to...

The Week: City News - Chrysalis sells radio arm.(Chrysalis Group PLC)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Chrysalis is to sell its radio division, including Heart, Galaxy and LBC, to a consortium backed by the former ITV chief executive Charles Allen. The newly created investment company Global Radio has paid pounds 170 million for the...

The Week: City News - Tesco reveals slowdown.(sales decrease at Tesco PLC)(Financial report)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, has reported a slowdown in sales growth and warned that repeated interest rate rises have damaged consumer confidence. Group sales at Tesco increased by 10 per cent in the 13 weeks to 26 May, but UK...

The Week: People News - Egg/Citi hires Alison Wright.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Alison Wright has been made the chief marketing officer for the merged Egg and Citi UK consumer business. Dean Proctor, the Citi UK marketing chief, becomes business development director. Egg is expected to review its advertising account,...

The Week: People News - BBC chiefs give up bonuses.(incentives of Mark Thompson)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... BBC management, including the director-general, Mark Thompson, will waive around pounds 350,000 worth of incentive payments due to be awarded this year. According to this year's annual report, to be published on 3 July, the entire top team...

The Week: People News - Bollore warns on bubbles.(forecasts of Vincent Bollore)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Vincent Bollore, the chairman of Havas, has warned that the second internet boom may push prices up to unsustainable levels and has said Havas is unlikely to follow Publicis (which paid dollars 1.3 billion for Digitas) and WPP (which bought...

The Week: People News - Camelot chief joins Londis.(Phil Smith appointed at Musgrave Budgens Londis)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Phil Smith, the former commercial chief of Camelot, is to join Musgrave Budgens Londis convenience stores as its UK chief executive Smith left the lottery operator earlier this year before its third licence bid

The Week: Creative Reviews - RKCR/Y&R holds Virgin.(advertising contracts of Virgin Money Personal Financial Service Ltd. with Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R has retained the Virgin Money account after a two-way shoot-out against Beattie McGuinness Bungay Last week, James Murphy, Ben Priest and David Golding, RKCR/Y&R's chief executive, creative director and...

The Week: Creative Reviews - Publicis wins Saint Agur.
June 29, 2007... Publicis has won the Saint Agur advertising account from McCann Erickson. The agency has been chosen by Saint Agur's parent company, Bongrain, to work on an ad campaign due to launch in 2008

The Week: Media Reviews - Axa unveils shortlist.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Axa, the French-owned insurance and investment company, has shortlisted four agencies for its pounds 16 million media planning and buying account. Carat, Media Planning Group, MindShare and the incumbent, OMD Connect, will compete for the...

The Week: Media Reviews - Lofthouse names MG OMD.(advertising contracts of Lofthouse of Fleetwood with Manning Gottlieb OMD)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Lofthouse of Fleetwood has appointed Manning Gottlieb OMD to handle media planning and buying for its Fisherman's Friend brand. The agency won the pounds 500,000 business after a three-way pitch

The Week: Digital Reviews - Skoda hires Reading Room.(advertising contracts of Skoda Automobilovy Koncern Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Skoda has appointed Reading Room to develop its new website following a four-way pitch against undisclosed agencies. The car company had previously worked on a project basis with GT, which it briefed in April to come up with a strategy to...

The Week: The BBC seeks agencies for digital advertising roster.(British Broadcasting Corp. and advertising agencies contracts)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The BBC has called a pitch to find agencies for its digital advertising roster. The review, which is being handled by the AAR, will look to find agencies with strong marketing services and creative credentials. The search will not be...

The Week: I-Q - The internet question - What now for Y&R London?(Young & Rubicam London)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Ogilvy once said: 'There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.' The senior management team have laid...

The World: Minneapolis - Fallon snatches StrawberryFrog's Al Kelly.(Al Kelly appointed at StrawberryFrog)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Fallon Minneapolis has poached StrawberryFrog's Al Kelly to be its new executive creative director. Kelly has been at StrawberryFrog since 2005. Before that, he was a group creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, which he...

The World: Providence - Bluestreak.com sold to Aegis for dollars 12.5m.
June 29, 2007... Aegis Group has acquired the ad-serving business Bluestreak.com for dollars 12.5 million, and will integrate the company into the digital network Isobar. Bluestreak.com, which has offices in Rhode Island and London, specialises in...

The World: Almaty - JCDecaux buys stake in Kazakh outdoor company.(acquisition of RTS Perekrestok)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... JCDecaux has acquired a 50 per cent stake in RTS Perekrestok, a Kazakhstan-based outdoor advertising company, with a view to capitalising on the economic growth of outdoor advertising in Russia and Asia. The deal will see RTS...

The World: Hong Kong - Harvey Nichols hands TBWA creative brief.(contracts of Harvey Nichols and Company Ltd. and TBWA Advertising Inc.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... The UK-based department store Harvey Nichols has reportedly handed its Hong Kong creative account to TBWA, following a competitive review also involving Ogilvy & Mather. The review was called just five months after the retailer awarded...

The World: Beijing - Olympics prompts prime billboard crackdown.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Local regulators have launched a crackdown on the quality of the prime billboard spots in Beijing, in a bid to spruce up the city ahead of next year's Olympic Games. Nestle, Hitachi, JVC and Apple are among the clients believed to be affected...

The World: New York - McCann Erickson US stripped of J&J portfolio.(Johnson & Johnson and McCann Erickson contracts)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Johnson & Johnson has stripped McCann Erickson's US agencies of its businesses, except for one brand, Acuvue, in a US-based reshuffle. The five brands to move are Band-Aid, Reach, Stayfree, K-Y and Monistat It is thought the business...

The World: Vienna - MediaX sold to WPP's Mediaedge:cia by Erste Bank.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... WPP's Mediaedge:cia has acquired the Austrian media agency MediaX from Erste Bank. MediaX handles all of the media buying and planning for Erste Bank, as well as the leading telecoms provider One. The agency has 12 staff that will move...

The World: Kuala Lumpur - Burnett wins Petronas creative account.(advertising contracts of Petroliam Nasional Bhd. with Leo Burnett Company Inc. )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Leo Burnett & Arc Malaysia has won the creative account for Petronas, the oil and gas company based in Malaysia, after a five-way pitch. The agency, which already has a relationship with the brand, saw off competition from M&C Saatchi,...

The World: Singapore - WPP Digital snaps up Blue for undisclosed sum.(mergers of WPP Group PLC)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Blue, the Singapore-based digital agency, has been bought by WPP Digital for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes Blue's search subsidiary, Demand. It will give WPP access to a portfolio of digital expertise including online...

The World: Wellington - Adam Good to join Clemenger BBDO NZ.(appointment at Clemenger/BBDO Ltd. )(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Adam Good, currently the regional president of Tribal DDB, is leaving to take up the post of executive director of digital innovation at Clemenger BBDO New Zealand. Good, who assumed the position of regional president earlier this year,...

The Work: New campaigns - UK.
June 29, 2007... BBC - BBC WIMBLEDON CREDITS Project: BBC Wimbldeon Clients: Louisa Fyans, head of marketing and communications; Karen Potterton, marketing manager, BBC Sport Brief: Promote the BBC's coverage of the world's most famous tennis...

Pitch update.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Well, thank God for Budweiser, because the London pitch scene was looking rather dull this week. Word on the street is that Porsche pitchers (M&C Saatchi and Leo Burnett) are feeling a little bleak. They're sensing that the car marque is...

New-business Rankings: 29 June 2007.(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
June 29, 2007... Rank Rank Agency/ Total Total Net Wins this last Last three wins billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Hotline: Network Rail announces tender for free newspaper.(Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Network Rail has announced a tender to distribute a free weekday afternoon or evening newspaper at Manchester Piccadilly station. The tender process will begin immediately with a view to completion within a month

Hotline: Roger Parry made executive chairman of Media Square.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Roger Parry has been made the executive chairman at the marketing services group Media Square, replacing the chief executive, Jeremy Middleton, after the company posted an underlying annual loss of pounds 2.3 million. Parry, who joins on 2...

Hotline: Ofcom fines broadcaster.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Ofcom has fined the broadcaster five pounds 300,000 for breaches of the broadcasting code in its premium-rate phone-in quiz Brainteaser. The fine is the largest ever imposed by the regulator on a public service broadcaster. Five said it was...

Hotline: BSkyB and Tiscali sign deal.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Tiscali A/S)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... BSkyB and Tiscali have signed a deal to add Sky's basic channels to the Tiscali TV platform. The deal includes Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky Arts, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News. The Sky Movies and Sky Sports channels are already...

Hotline: EnCams appoints MediaVest Manchester.
June 29, 2007... EnCams, the environmental charity responsible for the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, has appointed MediaVest Manchester to handle its pounds 800,000 media planning and buying account

Hotline: Andy Roberts launches independent agency.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Andy Roberts, the former Starcom director, is launching an independent agency alongside Jane Kesley, previously the head of Emap Advertising's cross-media unit, and Adam Bishop, the director of Starcom's content division, Starcom +. Called...

Hotline: Camelot appoints direct marketing agency Flourish.(Camelot Group PLC)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Camelot has appointed the direct marketing agency Flourish, following a three-way pitch. The agency has been charged with a brief to produce a campaign aimed at increasing player retention on Camelot's interactive services -...

Hotline: EasyJet holds pitch for e-mail marketing business.
June 29, 2007... EasyJet is holding a pitch for its e-mail marketing business. The low-cost airline has approached several undisclosed agencies to pitch for the account

Hotline: Clear Channel Outdoor UK announces winners of awards.(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... Clear Channel Outdoor UK has announced the winners of its Student Design Awards. The overall prize went to Steven Yates from the University of Lincoln with an ad for Sure for Men

Hotline: Second APG Battle of Big Thinking.
June 29, 2007... The second APG Battle of Big Thinking, run in association with Campaign, will take place on 11 October at the Royal College of Physicians, featuring Barclays' Jim Hytner, GCap's Fru Hazlitt and The Number's Chris Moss, among others. For...

Close-Up: Newsmaker - Arise, Sir John of Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
June 29, 2007... The BBH co-founder John Hegarty has been made a knight for his services to advertising. He regards it as recognition of the importance of creativity in the industry, James Hamilton writes. Advertising has always been good at awarding...

Close-Up: The Cream of Cannes 2007.(Cannes Lions 2007)
June 29, 2007... It takes dedication and determination to dig the diamonds from the dirt. Eight jurors relate how the winners were picked. TITANIUM AND INTEGRATED - Alex Bogusky chief creative officer, Crispin Porter & Bogusky This year I realised...

Media Perspective: It's in structure, not creativity, where UK media must adapt.
June 29, 2007... Instead of going to Cannes or Glastonbury, I spent the wet weekend completing several levels on the platform classic Mario vs Donkey Kong on the GameBoy Advance. At the end of each level, Mario, the diminutive Italian plumber, must throw...

Media Forum: Should quality cost more?
June 29, 2007... Will rivals follow the Financial Times' coverprice hike, Alasdair Reid asks. Perhaps John Ridding, the chief executive of the Financial Times, has just given birth to a new price comparison system - a successor to the Mars Bar benchmark...

Media: Chatter.(briefs)(Brief article)
June 29, 2007... 'They had a chance to buy a competitor, but it hasn't come off. Now they should sell the FT at a time when the paper is doing well.' - Lorna Tilbian, the Numis analyst, calls on Pearson to sell the FT in light of News Corporation's bid for...

Media Headliner: Will the marketplace take Freeman to its heart?(Guardian News and Media)
June 29, 2007... Adam Freeman, GNM's new commercial director, knows he has a hard act to follow in Stuart Taylor, Alasdair Reid writes. You can't help but feel that the senior editorial people at The Guardian could learn a thing or two from their...

Media Lifeline: Dennis Publishing.(Chronology)
June 29, 2007... Felix Dennis' brainchild has been at the forefront of magazine publishing since the 70s. 1974: Former gravedigger Felix Dennis, one of the Oz magazine team jailed for obscenity in 1971 (and, allegedly, the first man to say 'c*nt' on...

Media: All About ... UK broadcast sponsorship deals.
June 29, 2007... Mobile and online extras are growing the market. If the recent glut of high-profile deals is anything to go by, broadcast sponsorships continue to be serious business. Last week, Campaign revealed that the furniture store chain Harveys...

Media: Things we like.
June 29, 2007... JONATHAN DURDEN'S ANTICS IN BIG BROTHER Jonathan Durden may have got off to a slow start and came close to being evicted last week, but in his own quiet way he is steadily raising the bar. An epic moment of flatulence and an offer to give...

Media: Double Standards - The fashion magazine heavyweights face off.(dialogue with Jamie Bill)(Interview)
June 29, 2007... GQ's publishing director reckons his title has the best editorial, while his rival at Wallpaper* counters that his magazine's readers are more influential. JAMIE BILL - PUBLISHING DIRECTOR, GQ - How would you describe your typical...