Campaign articles from June 2009

Campaign archives from June 2009

Media agencies vie for BBC Worldwide.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is reviewing its media planning and buying account. PHD is the incumbent on the UK business, which encompasses the corporation's magazines, audio books, DVDs and digital media. PHD first...

IPA under fire over membership fees.(Institute of Practitioners in Advertising)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The IPA is coming under pressure to review its membership-fee system as agencies continue to suffer the effects of the recession. Some agencies claim that by charging fees based on income rather than profit, the IPA is not taking into...

TBWA scoops global GSK creative briefs.(TBWA Worldwide)(GlaxoSmithKline PLC)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... TBWA\Worldwide has won the global advertising accounts for GSK's nicotine replacement brand, NiQuitin CQ, and Alli, its weight-loss product. The network beat a team of Euro RSCG and the Engine Group to scoop the business. The account...

Ridley Scott unveils ad-funded UGC venture.
June 5, 2009... Ridley Scott is launching a project called Purefold that will harness user-generated content, RSA directors, scriptwriters and online aggregators to create brand-funded premium quality online TV programmes. Created by Ag8, the initiative is...

Moneysupermarket reviews pounds 17m task.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Moneysupermarket.com has called a pitch for its pounds 17 million advertising account. The website works with Doner Cardwell Hawkins, which was appointed to handle the business in 2006. It is not known whether DCH will repitch. It also...

Emirates in pounds 160m pitch.(Emirates Airline)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Dubai-based carrier approaches networks in bid to consolidate global ad account. Emirates, the Dubai-based airline, is planning a review of its pounds 160 million global advertising business. Although the pitch is not scheduled to kick...

COI calls DM pitch for children's brief.(Children's Workforce Development Council)(direct marketing)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The Children's Workforce Development Council is looking for an agency to handle the direct marketing account for its Early Years Professional Status initiative. COI, which is handling the review, is understood to have shortlisted four...

AMV and MG OMD win donor account.(Manning Gottlieb OMD)(Abbott Mead Vickers)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... COI has appointed Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and Manning Gottlieb OMD to handle advertising and media planning for the NHS Blood and Transplant account. The PR agency Munroe & Forster will join the agencies in creating the first-ever...

Agencies vie for Home Office passport brief.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The Home Office is on the hunt for an agency to handle the direct marketing account for its Identity and Passport Services office. The review is being handled by COI, and a number of agencies have been contacted. A shortlist of four is...

Dare appoints Cooper to creative role.
June 5, 2009... Dare has appointed Brian Cooper, the former McCann Erickson creative director, to an equivalent role at the digital agency. The appointment ends a long search that followed the departure of Dare's creative director, James Cooper, to join...

V&A hunts agency to redesign website.(www.vam.ac.uk)(Victoria and Albert Museum)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The Victoria & Albert Museum is on the hunt for a digital agency to redesign its main website. The successful agency will be briefed to redesign the V&A's homepage, www.vam.ac.uk, which acts as the main portal for potential visitors to the...

TV faces pounds 474m ad loss.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Forecasts wipe 15 per cent off commercial TV market despite returning viewers. Despite a revival in commercial TV audiences on the back of programming such as ITV's Britain's Got Talent, the UK TV market is bracing itself for a 15 per cent...

Top creative role for Becker at GyroHSR.
June 5, 2009... Chris Becker, the former chairman and chief creative officer of DraftFCB New York, has been appointed as the new chief creative officer of GyroHSR. In his new role, Becker will be responsible for driving GyroHSR's creative agenda on a...

AIS scoops account for lowcostholidays.(Archibald Ingall Stretton)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Archibald Ingall Stretton has won the integrated business for the internet travel company lowcostholidays.com. The agency picked up the account without a pitch, and will now create a number of campaigns for the company across the direct...

Harris joins Leagas Delaney as its MD.(managing director)(Chris Harris)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Leagas Delaney has appointed Chris Harris, the president of international operations at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, as its managing director. Harris replaces Elliot Moss, who left the agency a month ago to join one of its clients, the law firm...

Agencies line up for Shell digital task.(Royal Dutch-Shell PLC)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Shell has approached agencies with a brief to handle the digital duties for its recruitment process. The initial project will involve rebuilding and modernising the company's recruitment website. Once relaunched, the agency will then...

Andrew Oldham handed London 2012 consultancy role.(London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has appointed Andrew Oldham, the former CBS Outdoor chief operating officer, as a consultant. Oldham will be responsible for advising on the allocation of outdoor advertising space for...

Outdoor in revenue crisis.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Outdoor media owners say slump means rents for roadside billboards must fall. Outdoor media owners are striving to get rental costs for their roadside billboards reduced, amid a revenue 'collapse' that is prompting the industry to review...

The Week: Advertising news - M&S apology ad lifts sales.(Marks & Spencer)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Marks & Spencer's recent ad featuring a close-up of a woman's chest in a green bra was followed by a 25 per cent increase in bra sales. The ad, which ran across outdoor and print sites, carried the text 'we boobed' in a bid to apologise...

The Week: Advertising news - BBC pregnancy ad rapped.(20:20 London)(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The Taxpayers' Alliance has criticised the Government for producing a mobile video series aimed at cutting teenage pregnancy rates, after the BBC calculated that the series cost pounds 45 per subscriber. The series, called 'Thmbnls',...

The Week: Advertising news - Anti-racism spot goes live.(Love Music Hate Racism )(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Love Music Hate Racism has co-created an ad encouraging people to vote against the BNP in this week's European elections. The online film, set in a record shop, aims to show that 'racists have no music' by painting a picture of what a...

The Week: Advertising news - Ann Summers' site crashes.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... An Ann Summers digital campaign that featured a Brazilian stripper called Roberto performing a striptease attracted so many visitors that it crashed the company's site. The feature, which saw Roberto strip down to his underwear while dancing to...

The Week: Advertising news - Superimposed TV ads aired.(Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R)(Channel 2)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The Israeli agency Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R superimposed ads for Optalgin painkillers over the action during last week's live Uefa Champions League final on Israeli TV. In partnership with the Israeli TV station Channel 2, the agency...

The Week: Advertising news - Failed bid to ban freebies.(buy one get one free)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The European Union member states have seen their attempts to ban 'buy one get one free' promotions thwarted by the European Court of Justice. The court was first asked to look into the practice after advertisers protested a decision made by the...

The Week: Media news - Glossy mag's slimmer size.(Good Housekeeping magazine)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Good Housekeeping magazine is being sold in a handbag-sized format this week. The July issue of The National Magazine Company title, which came out on 4 June, will be travel-sized as part of a six-month trial for the format. ...

The Week: Media news - Slump aids Aviva rebrand.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Aviva has saved vast sums of money on its latest rebranding advertising campaign because of deflation in the media market and a lack of demand for roadside billboards, it has claimed. The group said it has had posters on roadside billboards...

The Week: Media news - Sky TV online deal signed.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... BSkyB and Microsoft have signed a deal to launch Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, on the Xbox. Launching in the autumn, broadband-enabled console owners will be able to access a range of Sky Player content, including Sky Sports and an...

The Week: Media news - BBC queries ITV news costs.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... A new regional news service on ITV will cost less than predicted, according to the BBC, which is keen to avoid its licence fee being spent on the venture. BBC officials said that Ofcom estimates that a basic service could cost between...

The Week: Media news - BGT gives ITV.com hit boost.(Britain's Got Talent)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... ITV.com had a record month in May with total video views rising 528 per cent to more than 55 million. The year-on-year increase was boosted by viewing of Britain's Got Talent content during the month, including more than six million views...

The Week: Media news - Virgin Media TV rebrands.(Virgin Media Television)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Virgin Media Television has re-branded its Virgin1 channel by giving it a new logo, identity and furry character, called Red. Appearing for the first time on 9 June at 9pm, the new identity follows news that the channel is adding a +1...

The Week: Media news - ITV opens talks with Sky.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Sky Channel)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... ITV has opened talks with Sky about moving its digital channels to a subscription-only model. The move could result in ITV's three digital channels, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4, moving off Freeview and on to a pay-TV footing on the Sky platform....

The Week: Eccleshare takes reins at Clear Channel International.(William Eccleshare)(BBDO EMEA)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... William Eccleshare, the chairman and chief executive of BBDO EMEA, has quit the network to become the president and chief executive of Clear Channel International. It is understood that Eccleshare's role at BBDO will now be restructured,...

The Week: Best of the blogs - Long road ahead.
June 5, 2009... We set off in Garry's Audi at 6am to visit a potential client whose office is nearly in Scotland. Andrew Stephens from Goodstuff came with us. We decided it would be cheaper and more productive to drive, rather than go by train. Everything...

The Week: City News - Sorrell's pounds 60m is approved.(Martin Sorrell)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Shareholders at WPP have approved a five-year incentive package that could see the chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, earn pounds 60 million in bonuses. Also at its AGM, WPP reported an increase in global revenue of almost 34 per cent...

The Week: City News - Sky favourite to buy VMT.(Virgin Media Television)(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Sky Networks)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Sky has emerged as a clear front-runner in the race to buy Virgin Media Television, the company that owns channels including Living and Virgin 1 and the sales house ids. Virgin's bitter rival is said to have bid pounds 160 million for the...

The Week: City News - CVC offers pounds 2bn for RM stake.
June 5, 2009... CVC Capital Partners, the private equity group that owns a stake in the Belgian postal service, is understood to have made a pounds 2 billion offer for a 30 per cent stake in Royal Mail. The bid is thought to trump that of TNT. CVC is...

The Week: City News - ITV unsure about hiring Ball.(Tony Ball)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... ITV shareholders have given a mixed reception to the potential costs involved in hiring the former Sky chief executive Tony Ball as its next chief executive. Ball, currently the chairman of Kabel Deutschland, is thought to favour a rights...

The Week: People news - Kennedy named FHM editor.(Colin Kennedy)(Bauer Media)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Bauer Media has appointed the former Empire editor, Colin Kennedy, as the new editor of FHM, replacing Anthony Noguera. Kennedy was most recently the digital creative director at Bauer, after being appointed to the role in 2006. ...

The Week: People news - Pritchard joins Iris group.(Kathryn Pritchard)(Iris Worldwide)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Iris Worldwide has appointed Kathryn Pritchard, the former BT head of organisational development and design, to the newly created role of global talent director. Pritchard will report to the agency's joint chief executive and founder,...

The Week: People news - LBi promotes Alan Davies.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... LBi has promoted Alan Davies, its group strategy director, to chief strategy officer with a place on the executive management team. Davies will continue to work on LBi's global strategy and service offering. -------------------- Did...

The Week: Advertising Reviews - Yoplait moves to Publicis.(Publicis Dialog Europe)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Yoplait has moved its UK advertising account out of McCann Erickson and will now split the business between Publicis' UK and French offices. The network is already an incumbent on the business in a number of European markets. The decision...

The Week: Advertising Reviews - JWT lands Microsoft brief.
June 5, 2009... Microsoft has appointed JWT to handle the global advertising for the launch of its Bing search engine. The appointment will be a blow to McCann Erickson, which has in the past handled the bulk of Microsoft's consumer advertising. JWT's US...

The Week: Advertising Reviews - Now appoints Quiet Storm.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Now magazine has appointed Quiet Storm to its advertising account as part of a pounds 1.5 million marketing investment supporting the magazine's relaunch. Before the appointment, the IPC-owned Now did not use an ad agency. The new-look...

The Week: Media Reviews - MPG scoops Haier account.(Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Company Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Haier, the Chinese white goods manufacturer, has appointed MPG to handle its European media account. The agency beat Mindshare and MediaCom to win the brief, which represents the company's first appointment of a European agency. It will work on...

The Week: DM Reviews - EA seeks European agency.
June 5, 2009... Electronic Arts is looking for an integrated agency to handle pan-European marketing campaigns for its game launches. The company is talking to digital and direct agencies about the brief. Its relationship with its advertising agency, Wieden &...

The Week: Digital reviews - RMG handed dance brief.(RMG Connect)(Pineapple)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Pineapple, one of the world's most famous dance studios, has appointed RMG Connect to handle its digital marketing account. The agency won the account without a pitch, and will be responsible for completely overhauling Pineapple's online...

The Week: Digital reviews - VCCP picks up Hiscox work.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... The insurance company Hiscox has handed its SEO account to VCCP Search after a three-way pitch. In 2006, the insurer announced it was increasing its marketing spend from pounds 400,000 to pounds 10 million in a bid to raise its profile in the...

The Week: GM collapses owing Interpublic and Publicis dollars 167m.
June 5, 2009... General Motors owes Interpublic and Publicis agencies dollars 167 million in unpaid bills, according to the bankruptcy filing made by the automotive company this week. The majority of the money owing, dollars 121 million, is to Publicis'...

The Week: The best of campaignlive.co.uk.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... 'Burrow into Campaign's archive. Go back - five years, seven years, ten years - and read what accompanies the launch of any new ad campaign. Witness the bragadaccio. Clock the hubris. Be astonished by the bollocks. (By the way, what...

Close-Up: Advertising is not dead, and I can prove it to you.(Harrison, Troughton Wunderman)
June 5, 2009... In an extract from his new book, How To Do Better Creative Work, Steve Harrison argues that there is life in advertising yet. I was on the Cannes website recently and saw this blurb for one of the Festival's workshops: 'Advertising agencies...

Close-Up: An appeal to the ad regulator's reason.
June 5, 2009... So, your ad's been banned. What do you do next? Anything? The current review of the Codes of Advertising Practice should offer advertisers a new appeals process, Brinsley Dresden argues. The American Revolution was triggered by a simple...

Close-Up: Does the UK deliver on integration?
June 5, 2009... Are agencies failing in their promises of integration, or does blame lie elsewhere? Every UK agency is integrated, isn't it? At least, that's what they all claim. But a quick glance at any recent global awards show demonstrates a...

Close-Up: The hot seat - Rooney Carruthers, VCCP.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Name: Rooney Carruthers Job: Founding partner, VCCP - You've got five hours left before the world explodes. What would you do? I'd start with a kiss and cuddle with my family, then I would cry my eyes out. - What's your best...

Media Perspective: Diluting CRR may not keep Hugo Chavez from ITV's top table.
June 5, 2009... The extremists always have the best outfits. The latest pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il show that he continues to resemble a Minipops version of Roy Orbison in his head-to-toe black and huge shades. In the same newspaper was an...

Media Forum: Is outdoor a tired medium?
June 5, 2009... Is the traditional poster medium in terminal decline, Alasdair Reid asks. Out-of-home media owners have been whipping up a pretty compelling digital era sales pitch in the past couple of years - so compelling, in fact, that many believed...

Media: Chatter.(Quotation)
June 5, 2009... 'I think we've been lucky. We've had weak competition at our end of the market and the rest of the market sort of disappeared.' - Dylan Jones celebrates ten years as the editor of GQ, with an almost humble remark 'There couldn't have been...

Media Headliner: Building a centre of excellence for men's market.(UTV Motion Pictures Ltd.)
June 5, 2009... Adam Bullock, the new MD of Sport, reveals how its owner, UTV, plans to exploit its links with talkSPORT. When Russell Brand and his good friend Noel Gallagher teamed up to present a one-off chat show on talkSPORT last month, Brand accused...

Media Lifeline: Hello!
June 5, 2009... The celebrity title has had many changes of heart since its launch in 1988, even down to the day it publishes. January 2001: Hello!, launched by Eduardo Sanchez Junco in 1988 as a sister title to his Spanish Hola!, has it relatively easy....

Media Perspective: Digital media is at last making waves with live stream TV.(Column)
June 5, 2009... It's a phenomenon I think we first discussed after the last Eurovision Song Contest (you know, when the Russians won, before we got Andrew Lloyd Webber to restore us to our rightful status of 'not last'). Said phenomenon being the use of...

Media: All about ... TV sales houses.(Channel Four Television Company Ltd. negotiates with British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Sky Media)
June 5, 2009... Merger talk over TV ad sales houses is at fever pitch, Alasdair Reid writes. 'If I were a betting man,' one senior media agency source last week confessed, 'I wouldn't mind taking a punt on 'Millie' putting the band back together again.'...

Media: Things we like.(briefs)
June 5, 2009... Spot the pie As fans of The Times' Monday football supplement, The Game, we've been enjoying its sponsored 'spot the pie' competition in recent weeks. A neat idea from the Brampton Pie Company takes a small sponsorship budget a long way in...

Media: Double Standards - The desire for celebrity news could save us all.(Interview)
June 5, 2009... Michael Butcher and Abigail Blackburn on stylish escapism, sexy exclusives and Jordan's love life - it's all in a day's work on a celebrity magazine. MICHAEL BUTCHER - EDITOR, REVEAL - How has the recession affected celebrity...

The World: Dallas - Lee lands VP brand and advertising role at AT&T.
June 5, 2009... Esther Lee, the former chief executive and president of global brands at Euro RSCG North America, has been appointed by AT&T as its senior vice-president, brand marketing and advertising. In the newly created position, Lee will oversee all...

The World: Detroit - Universal McCann wins dollars 150m BMW business.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... BMW has appointed Universal McCann as its new media planning and buying agency for its national and regional dealership groups. The agency won the dollars 150 million account following a pitch against the incumbent, GSD&M Idea City, and...

The World: Boston - Wendy's calls creative and media account pitches.
June 5, 2009... Wendy's, the fast-food restaurant chain, has called a pitch for its creative and media accounts. The Arby's-owned company, which has almost 7,000 restaurants worldwide, is reviewing all advertising disciplines, including its TV, media and...

The World: Moscow - Lowe Adventa to handle BeeLine ad business.
June 5, 2009... BeeLine, the main brand of OJSC VimpelCom, Russia's largest domestic telecommunications operator, has appointed Lowe Adventa to handle its ad account. The agency was given the nod after a final-round pitch against Grey. Kent McNeley, the...

The World: Singapore - Kolinsky takes on HP task for BBDO/Proximity.(appointment of Jason Kolinsky)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Jason Kolinsky has joined BBDO/Proximity Singapore as a regional account director to work on its HP business. Kolinsky joins the agency from McCann Erickson, where he led the Intel consumer business across Singapore and Hong Kong. ...

The World: New York - Mindshare appoints Sorokin as its head of digital.(Scott Sorokin )(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Mindshare has appointed Scott Sorokin to the newly created position of head of digital, global in a bid to improve its digital communication expertise. Sorokin joins the agency from his role as the president at Carat Fusion, Aegis Media's...

The World: New York - Insider's memoirs attack DDB's Bill Bernbach.(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Bill Bernbach, the legendary advertising figurehead and founder of DDB, has come under fire in a new book written by his agency's former PR director. In Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach And The Golden Age Of Advertising, the author, Doris...

The World: New York - Lowe Worldwide scoops Matrixx ad business.(Matrixx Initiatives Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... Matrixx Initiatives, the maker of the cold remedy Zicam, has handed its advertising account to Lowe Worldwide, following a pitch against undisclosed agencies. The appointment was a culmination of a four-month review of the business, the...

The World: Kuala Lumpar - Mindshare beats three to net UIP brief.(United International Pictures signed a deal with Mindshare Malaysia )(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... United International Pictures, one of the world's leading film distribution companies, has handed Mindshare Malaysia its media planning and buying account. Mindshare picked up the business following a pitch against Zenith Media, PHD and...

The World: Sydney - Maxus wins Jetstar media after five-way pitch.
June 5, 2009... Maxus has landed the media account for Jetstar, following a five-way pitch against an undisclosed number of agencies. Jetstar first announced that it was reviewing its media account in January. ZenithOptimedia, which had been the incumbent...

The World: Recession and reform shaking up Spanish TV.(television )
June 5, 2009... It's a challenging time for change for the country's embattled advertising and media industries, William Cabrera writes. The fact the Spanish economy is battling a deep recession is already well known. What's not so well known is how this...

The World: Insider's View - US.
June 5, 2009... Even in American advertising, where aggression has often ruled the day, it seems art comes out of adversity. Well, some of the time. The arts section in the Sunday edition of The New York Times seems to be getting thicker. Meanwhile, the...

Editorial: Give audiences quality TV and they will come.(television)(Editorial)
June 5, 2009... If last weekend is any indication, ITV has earned the right to join Mark Twain in claiming that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. The final of Britain's Got Talent almost emptied the streets as people clustered around...

Editorial: Advertising gets God's seal of approval.(Editorial)(Brief article)
June 5, 2009... God moves in mysterious ways, but he's also a pragmatist. Or so it would appear now that his representative on Earth, Pope Benedict XVI, has given his blessing to Vatican Radio taking advertising to defray its pounds 18.8 million annual...

Opinion: Perspective - Adland could regret not fighting for media brands.(Viewpoint essay)
June 5, 2009... If the stats are right, we could be about to lose big chunks of our media heritage. According to Group M, media brands that we've grown up with could be no more by the end of the year. Newspaper ad revenues are expected to fall 26 per cent...

Opinion: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.(Viewpoint essay)
June 5, 2009... Q: Should British politicians be allowed to advertise on TV, as they do in America, to galvanise more people to vote? A: A timely question; though I'm not convinced that political advertising would have the galvanising effect you suggest....

Advertising ... surrealism ... iguanas.
June 5, 2009... Is using surrealism in ads the work of lazy creatives or a genuinely effective way of getting a message across? An audience sits in silence awaiting the performance by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris. It's 1926 and the...

BIG-ging up British: Radio.
June 5, 2009... My wife thought I was having an affair. Why else would, as she put it, 'the world's least domesticated human being' start volunteering for chores that he's always detested? Yet I've been cooking, cleaning and last Sunday, for the first...

The Work: New Campaigns - UK.(briefs)
June 5, 2009... ROBINSONS - WIMBLEDON 'IMAGINE' CREDITS Project: Wimbledon 'imagine' Client: Lesley Davey, brands director, Britvic Robinsons Brief: Robinsons and Wimbledon celebrating the best of British Creative agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty Writer:...

The Work: New Campaigns - The World.(briefs)
June 5, 2009... LYNX - MUCHAS MARACAS - GLOBAL CREDITS Project: Muchas maracas Clients: Joachim Grothe, Jessie Weller, brand managers, Unilever Brief: Launch Axe/Lynx's new Latin American-inspired shower gel and deodorant Creative agency: Bartle...

The Work: Private View.(Visit England appointed CST )
June 5, 2009... CREATIVE - Robert Campbell, co-founder, Campbell Lace (Beta) Here's a good game. Every commercial I'm re-viewing today I'm Googling Just to see if the above-the-line 'collar' matches the online 'cuffs'. Marks & Spencer (6) is 125 years...

Diary: On the QT ..
June 5, 2009... From Royal Birkdale to the Riviera, the recession continues being a killjoy. The Guardian won't be playing host to around 80 advertising folk at the famous Lancashire golf course this year. The annual jolly is said to cost well in excess...