Campaign articles from March 2006

Campaign archives from March 2006

RAB mulls increase in commission rate.(Radio Advertising Bureau )(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The radio industry is working on proposals for a new trading system designed to reward agencies for increasing their spend on the medium. Among the options being considered is a move to a system similar to that which operates in outdoor...

Kendall Tarrant and Stolkin unite.(Stolkin + Partners)
March 3, 2006... Adland's two headhunting giants to merge in pounds 1m-plus deal that will secure 85 per cent of the market. Two of the ad industry's best-known head-hunting companies, Kendall Tarrant and Stolkin + Partners, are coming together in a deal...

Euro names Kate Robertson as chairman.(Euro RSCG Europe)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Kate Robertson, the executive vice-president of Euro RSCG Europe and head of the agency's Euro RSCG Fuel arm, has been made the chairman of the UK group. The move completes a raft of management changes at the UK offices of the Havas-owned...

Production houses threaten to boycott BBH.(Bartle Bogle Hegarty)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Bartle Bogle Hegarty is facing a crisis with news that up to 40 production companies are threatening to boycott the agency's TV briefs. The dispute centres on BBH's contracts with production companies. The main bone of contention is BBH's...

Gibbons and Washer quit PHD to launch Work.(Justin Gibbons, Dani Washer)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Two PHD executives have left the agency to launch a research business called Work. Justin Gibbons, the director of strategic services at PHD, and Dani Washer, the agency's head of consumer insight, are launching Work in a bid to offer...

Maiden rivals circle its outdoor assets.(Outdoor Advertising Associates L.P.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Outdoor media owners are circling their rival Maiden, as the possibility of the company selling off its major assets increased after it failed to find a buyer for the business. Maiden, the UK's fourth- biggest outdoor ad company in the UK,...

Harrison nets Wunderman role.(Steve Harrison, Wunderman Worldwide)
March 3, 2006... Steve Harrison has added the role of worldwide creative director of Wunderman to his existing job. Steve Harrison, the founder and creative director of Harrison Troughton Wunderman, has added the newly created role of worldwide creative...

The Marketing Store wins Dyson DM account.(direct marketing)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Dyson has appointed The Marketing Store to handle its UK direct marketing account. The Marketing Store triumphed in a final shoot-out against Tullo Marshall Warren to secure the business. The incumbent, Stephens Francis Whitson, was...

UK Athletics calls pitch for digital agency.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... UK Athletics, the governing body for track and field sports, is looking for a full-service digital agency to build its online marketing efforts in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. The account will include designing a website...

British Gas recruits Wheel for web work.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... British Gas has chosen Wheel as its sole digital agency, following a protracted pitch process involving 12 agencies. Wheel triumphed in a second-round shoot-out against Agency.com, Framfab and DNA. The agency will now focus on overhauling...

Hyundai plans London agency.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... VCCP's hold on pounds 12 million account in question as Innocean looks for senior executive in the UK. A question-mark hangs over VCCP's future tenure of the pounds 12 million Hyundai account with the news that the Korean car-maker's...

Emap Radio loses MD Shaun Gregory.(Emap Radio National Brands)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Shaun Gregory, the managing director of Emap Radio National Brands, is leaving the company. Gregory has decided to leave Emap after almost 11 years working on its broadcast strategy and, for the past two years, running its national radio...

Stream develops C4 and Abbey Road tie-in.(Abbey Road Studios inks a deal with Channel 4)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Abbey Road Studios, most famously used by The Beatles, has signed a deal with Channel 4 for a TV series and is now looking for commercial and global TV partners. TBWA\London's branded entertainment arm, Stream, developed the concept and...

McDonald's offers diet info on the net.(website launched)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... McDonald's has turned to the internet in its bid to combat accusations that it is contributing to the global obesity epidemic. A new website, www.mcdonaldsmenu.info, is designed to help customers make a more informed choice about what they...

Naked appoints a new UK management team.(Naked Communications )(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Naked Communications is installing a new UK management team to free up its founding partners to focus on international expansion. The agency has promoted Geoff Gray, Jo Pearce and Niku Banaie to the roles of managing partner with...

IPC Media splits up ignite! department.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... IPC Media has restructured its ignite! division, splitting it into music and men's titles. Each new department will be run independently, under its own publishing director. Eric Fuller, previously the group publishing director for Nuts and...

Seat appoints Leith for fleet campaign.(Seat UK, Leith Agency)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Seat has appointed The Leith Agency in Edinburgh to develop an integrated campaign to support its launch into fleet management. Targeting fleet managers across the country, the campaign will involve direct mail, trade press advertising,...

Premier seeks agency for pounds 8m Quorn.(Premier Foods)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Premier Foods is looking for a new roster agency and has called a pitch for its recently acquired Quorn brand. The commercial director of Premier Foods, Howard Beverage, has invited Mother, FCB, Publicis and Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy...

Steve Gatfield takes helm of Lowe from Tony Wright.(Lowe Worldwide )(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... IPG executive vice-president assumes control in bid to revive the ailing network. Steve Gatfield, Interpublic Group's executive vice-president of network operations, has been handed Tony Wright's job as the chief executive of Lowe...

UK digital agencies recover from crash.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The UK's digital agencies have returned to profit for the first time in four years, according to a report analysing the performance of the UK's 35 largest new media agencies. The survey, conducted by New Media Agencies Financial...

Richard Davies sets up independent digital ad agency.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Richard Davies, the founder of the WPP-owned Good Technology, has set up an independent digital agency, Vexed Digital. Founding clients include Hand Picked Hotels and the clothing chain New Look. The agency is also working on projects...

WPP reveals record 2005 profits rise.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP has countered the negative PR generated by its high-profile Italian legal wrangle by announcing a record 36 per cent profits rise last year. WPP's share price this week rose 5.5p to 668p in the wake of the news. ...

Abbey hands pounds 8m digital task to Carat.(Abbey National, Carat Espace)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Abbey National has moved its pounds 8 million digital account from MindShare to Carat. Carat already handles Abbey's pounds 26 million media planning and buying account for traditional media, which was shifted from MindShare in November....

John Lewis calls pitch for pounds 13m creative business.(John Lewis Partnership PLC)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Burkitt DDB is asked to repitch after handling the account for the past decade. The high-street retailer John Lewis is reviewing its pounds 13 million above-the-line advertising account. Burkitt DDB currently handles the business and...

Profits fall forces Emap to sell flagging French division.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Emap has announced it is selling off its flagging French magazine business - a decision, it said, that was made after a review of strategic investment priorities. The announcement marks a change of strategy for the publisher. Last...

Tequila lands pounds 1m LBS integrated brief.(Tequila London, London Business School)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Tequila\London has been hired by the London Business School to handle its claimed pounds 1 million integrated account. Tequila beat Publicis Dialog and Saatchi & Saatchi X to the account, which will cover the promotion of the school's...

CCI gives relaunch to ZenithOptimedia.(Cotton Council International)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... ZenithOptimedia has won an international brief from the US body Cotton Council International to relaunch its Cotton USA brand. CCI, which promotes cotton products, has appointed the agency to handle media planning and buying for a dollars 3...

Media: Baileys Irish Cream sponsors radio chart The A-List.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Baileys Irish Cream has signed as the sponsor of the new commercial radio chart The A-List. The new chart, broadcast across 50 adult stations at 4pm each Sunday, targets 25- to 45-year-olds and will be presented by Melanie Sykes and the Heart...

Media: ITV restructures digital channel teams.(Steven Andrew appointed, Zai Bennett and Steve Arnell promoted)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... ITV has restructured the teams that run its digital channels and appointed Steven Andrew, its former controller of off-peak, as programme director, ITV digital channels. Zai Bennett, the editor of ITV2, is promoted to controller of ITV2, and...

Media: Emap title POP launches retail outlet.(Emap Consumer Media's POP magazine partners with Selfridges Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The Emap Consumer Media title POP is launching a retail outlet in association with Selfridges. POP Shop will offer limited-edition designs from the likes of Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Fendi. The boutique opens for four weeks from 9 March as...

Media: Ford renews its sponsorship of talkSPORT Breakfast Show.(Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Ford has renewed its sponsorship of talkSPORT's Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show. The deal, worth pounds 1.5 million, will also see Ford become one of the station's official partners for its World Cup 2006 coverage. As part of the World Cup...

Media: Yahoo! rebrands its paid-for search division Overture.(Yahoo! Search Marketing, Overture Europe)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Yahoo! is rebranding its paid-for search division Overture as Yahoo! Search Marketing. The move will take effect across all European markets following a similar rebrand in the US last year.

Media: Thinkbox signs as headline sponsor for BTA Awards.(British Television Advertising Awards)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Thinkbox has signed as the headline sponsor for the British Television Advertising Awards on Wednesday 8 March. The commercial TV marketing body will also launch a bespoke section on its website, where winning ads can be viewed.

Media: IPC SouthBank links with John Lewis for promotion.(IPC SouthBank Publishing Co., John Lewis Partnership PLC)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... IPC SouthBank has linked with John Lewis to promote the retailer's spring collection. Activity will run across seven IPC titles including Ideal Home and Woman & Home. It will include a series of advertising features and a 24-page interiors...

Media: BBC Magazines revamps Easy Gardening title.(marketing, service enhancement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... BBC Magazines is revamping its Easy Gardening title. The magazine will have a new look with the launch of its April edition on 1 March. New features include 'cut out and keep' gardening cards, new layouts and a more compact format.

Media: ITV signs deal with TEAMtalk Media Group.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... ITV has signed a deal with TEAMtalk Media Group that will see TEAMtalk provide news, results and comment for ITV's World Cup website. ITV Online will use the information to supplement its own content from ITV Sport.

Media: Sunday Telegraph revives humorous column.(Peter Simple 2)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The Sunday Telegraph is reviving its Peter Simple humorous column. Peter Simple 2, written by the novelist and essayist AN Wilson, follows on from the original Peter Simple column, which ran in The Daily Telegraph for 50 years. Peter Simple's...

Media: ESPN launches dedicated sports channel in the UK.(launching ESPN Classic)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... ESPN, the sports company, is launching a dedicated sports channel in the UK. ESPN Classic will debut on Sky Digital on 13 March. It will offer viewers a selection of the greatest sporting events of all time. The UK launch of ESPN Classic...

Media Forum: Is TV becoming a tougher sell?(television advertising revenues, World Cup)
March 3, 2006... Should the slowdown in TV ad budgets worry the industry, Alasdair Reid asks. Strange things happen to the advertising market in the vicinity of a World Cup. In pure TV terms, it offers a unique festival of intense must-see events - and,...

Media: Chatter.(media executives' quotations)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... 'Basically, I am here until someone taps me on the shoulder to say 'hello and goodnight'.' - Sir Martin Sorrell reiterates his intention to run WPP until he dies 'McDonald's look like they are committing suicide in public. They seem...

Media Headliner: Cranmer takes his tough approach to research.(Mark Cranmer to join Research International)
March 3, 2006... Far from throwing in the towel, Mark Cranmer is moving onward and upward with Research International. Not so very long ago, there was something of a tradition in the advertising business that if the management offered to add either...

Media: Lifeline - Glamour.(sales hit by competition from Grazia)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The women's title is suffering at the hands of Grazia as it approaches its fifth birthday. 2001: Conde Nast brings Glamour to the UK in a handbag-sized A5 format. Its editor is Jo Elvin (pictured), formerly of New Woman and Sugar. It...

Media Perspective: The UK media scene still has its share of great young leaders.(media executives)
March 3, 2006... It's hard to respect all those old whingers who bemoan the death of great British comedy. The likes of The People's critic Garry Bushell would rather return to the music-hall era than admit that the likes of Black Books, Early Doors, Extras and...

Media: All about ... The Economist.(editor Bill Emmott steps down, company forecast)
March 3, 2006... What will Bill Emmott's departure mean for the title, Ian Darby asks. Everything at The Economist seems to be done with a certain sense of decency and style. Take last week's announcement that its editor, Bill Emmott, is to step down....

Media: Double Standards - 'The entire industry will be in the pub on 15 June'.(conversation with Michael Florence of Carat Espace, and Ed Wooller of Mindshare Futures)(Interview)
March 3, 2006... Top researchers share insights on the future of the industry, the World Cup and the role of pornography in driving digital uptake. MICHAEL FLORENCE - ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CARAT - What's the biggest piece of research your agency has...

Media: Things we like.(Channel Four Television Company Ltd.'s reality program analysis)(Metro newspaper launches new website)(Tesco PLC's marketing strategies)
March 3, 2006... METRO.CO.UK Metro's new website offers something different from those of most newspapers. It's not exactly a newspaper online, but it still provides something sufficiently diverting for an online audience. We particularly like its...

Media: Strategy Analysis - HD-television restores Sony to glory.(OMD UK and Fallon London gets contract from Sony Corp.)
March 3, 2006... Brand: Sony Bravia TV Client: Sony Brief: Launch the high-definition TV and restore Sony's premium brand-leader status Target audience: Digital influencers Budget: Undisclosed AGENCIES Media: OMD UK Creative: Fallon Online:...

Media: A Moment with Marquis.(online information services and mass media business analysis)
March 3, 2006... It's all Alan Rusbridger's fault. He introduced me to abebooks.com. Now I'm a hopeless addict. Abebooks is to second-hand books what Amazon is to new. It is the online equivalent of the Charing Cross Road. This very morning, a jiffy bag...

The World: New York - Bravo Group scoops dollars 30m Spanish Pfizer account.(Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, advertising contract)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Pfizer Consumer Healthcare has awarded The Bravo Group its dollars 30 million creative account for the Spanish-speaking market. This will be the first time that Pfizer Consumer Healthcare has appointed a lead Hispanic agency. Bravo...

The World: Paris - WSJ Europe plans glossy fashion and lifestyle launch.(Wall Street Journal Europe launching new magazine)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The Wall Street Journal Europe is launching a glossy lifestyle and fashion magazine across the continent. Using the working title Style Journal, the quarterly magazine will be published in conjunction with Show Media. It will launch in...

The World: Stockholm - Viasat announces new entertainment channel.(Viasat Broadcasting launches TV6)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Viasat Broadcasting is expanding its portfolio of digital terrestrial channels by launching an entertainment channel in May. Sitting alongside stations such as TV3, ZTV and TV8, the new channel, called TV6, will be available free of charge...

The World: Moscow - New bill puts greater restrictions on advertising.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The Russian Duma has passed a bill reducing TV advertising, placing greater controls on outdoor, banning tobacco ads and restricting alcohol, gambling and pharmaceutical campaigns. The state voted 338 to 43 in favour of the bill, with three...

The World: Tokyo - TBWA and Hakuhodo launch agency joint venture.(TBWA Worldwide)(TBWA\Hakuhodo)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... TBWA\Worldwide and Hakuhodo have agreed to form a joint-venture company in Japan. Opening in July, the agency, which will be called TBWA\Hakuhodo, will be 40 per cent owned by TBWA, with Hakuhodo owning the rest. The business will be a...

The World: Dallas - Six Flags hands dollars 75m media buying to MindShare.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The theme-park owner Six Flags has appointed MindShare to handle its dollars 75 million media buying business. The incumbent agency, Doner, is still in contention to pick up the company's creative account, which is also under review at...

The World: Mumbai - Media Futures aims to target Indian youth market.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... The Lintas Media Group, Brian Dunlop & Associates, Taylor Nelson Sofres and Garcia Media have joined forces to launch a multimedia initiative in India, called Media Futures. The new company is being launched to target the hard-to-reach...

The World: Bangkok - PepsiCo puts food and drinks media into review.(PepsiCo Thailand)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... PepsiCo Thailand has called a media review aimed at consolidating its beverage and food accounts. Separate pitches will be held for planning and buying duties. The pitch will include the company's roster agencies: OMD, which handles its...

The World: Hong Kong - O&M Japan's Blair takes Asia-Pacific presidency.(Ogilvy and Mather Asia-Pacific, Mark Blair)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Ogilvy & Mather Asia-Pacific has confirmed that Mark Blair, the president of O&M Group Japan, is moving across to become the president of the global brand community for the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Hong Kong, Blair, who will start...

The World: Shanghai - Kao leaves BBDO as Shanghai office hires creative.(Tom Kao, BBDO China, BBDO Shanghai appoints Leong Wai Foong)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Tom Kao, the deputy chairman of BBDO China, is leaving the network without a job to go to. He has been at BBDO for ten years. At the same time, BBDO Shanghai has hired Leong Wai Foong as its executive creative director. Before joining...

The World: Thai ad industry finds strength in consensus.(Advertising Association of Thailand)
March 3, 2006... Thailand's Buddhist culture means the trade body's philosophy of co-operation and tolerance works, Mark Johnson reports. Picture this: an advertising trade body with real power, and influence to change the way clients and agencies do...

The World: Insider's View - China.(using celebrities for marketing)
March 3, 2006... The ubiquitousness of some celebrities means advertisers have to work harder to make sure the star's power applies to their brand alone, Nick Barham writes. You'd be pretty happy if Yao Ming represented your brand, wouldn't you? One of...

Close-Up: Live Issue - Denuo's head aims to offer digital shepherding.(Rishad Tobaccowala)
March 3, 2006... Rishad Tobaccowala brings media experience to the characteristically youthful new-media sector, Noel Bussey reports. The marketing world is sometimes baffled by the rise of new media, a factor Publicis Groupe is hoping to turn into profit...

Close-Up: Can the quiet DDB lifer revitalise FCB London?
March 3, 2006... Andrew Fraser swapped DDB for the challenge of turning round the troubled FCB's creative output, Kate Nicholson says. Nigel Jones, FCB London's chief executive, and his newly appointed creative director, Andrew Fraser, have more than a few...

Close-Up: Live Issue - Does 2012 need anti-ambush laws?
March 3, 2006... How the London Olympics Bill aims to protect the official sponsors better. The 2012 London Olympics is more than six years away, yet tension among marketers is rising as the Government attempts to usher in laws that have been slammed as...

Close-Up: 24 Hours with ... Tim Irwin.
March 3, 2006... Name: Tim Irwin Job: Joint managing director, BJK&E Professional mission: To be is to do Personal mantra: Do be do be do 6.50am Up, shower, out. 7.30am 38 bus, one of the bendy variety. Am now a convert to this format....

Editorial: If Denuo creates a buzz, all the industry benefits.(Editorial)
March 3, 2006... Publicis Groupe's launch of Denuo, a unit that offers strategic advice to clients on the possibilities of digital media, makes excellent business sense. The internet might be growing faster than any other medium, but that growth is coming...

Editorial: Saatchis London sets the moral standard.(Editorial)
March 3, 2006... Saatchi & Saatchi London can only be admired for the standpoint it has taken after the easyJet pitch, refusing to take part in any future pitch for the account. But it seems these morals are not shared by Saatchis in Thailand (page 19), where...

Opinion: Perspective - Stolkin/Kendall Tarrant deal is a mixed blessing.(Column)
March 3, 2006... Being an employee of either Kendall Tarrant or Stolkin + Partners is probably going to feel a little weird over the next couple of months. The two headhunters have been deadly rivals for the past few years yet now, with a merger on the near...

Opinion: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.(Column)
March 3, 2006... Q: As today's media shops are all now getting into strategy, should we be looking forward to them inventing 'creative teams' in about 2063, the 'planner' in about 2066 and to a flowering of advertising creativity from around 2072? A: Let...

Diary: On the QT ..(Jerry Judge joining WPP Group PLC)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Could Jerry Judge, the former Lowe Worldwide chief executive, be about to make his industry comeback at WPP? Sources say he has had more than one meeting with the WPP chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell... Diary hopes all you intimate...

Diary: No bottling it: the verdict on John Hegarty's first wine.
March 3, 2006... Here at Campaign, we like to deliver our verdict on the big industry issues faster than the first Beaujolais Nouveau hits the coolest London bar. So we thought you should be the first to get a heads-up on Hegarty Chamans 2003. You've never...

Diary: Will Honda perform Civic duty to help Simon Day?(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... 'Eco bore sells out.' So reads a Wieden & Kennedy blog about Simon Day, the actor who starred in its lauded 'impossible dream' television ad. According to a letter from the moustachioed thespian, he is getting stopped in the street by...

Diary: Tabloids in a spin as Cat and Mark part company.
March 3, 2006... Anyone following the tabloid coverage of the split between the TV presenter Cat Deeley and her creative director boyfriend, Mark Whelan, must be dizzy from the spin. While everyone agrees Deeley and Whelan, who works for the branded...

Diary: Water-cooler monitor.(advertising agencies)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 3, 2006... WHAT TOPICS HAVE THE INDUSTRY BEEN DISCUSSING THIS WEEK? THE TALK TIME SPENT Now that's what we call a goody bag. Associated 21 mins 49 secs Newspapers is giving away free Bill...

Diary: Pick of the Week - Bartle Bogle Hegarty/Lynx.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Emma Barns gives Bartle Bogle Hegarty's latest Lynx ad a thumbs up: 'Ben Affleck prances around town, totting up the admiring looks he gets from the ladies on a click counter. He shows his score of 103 to a scrawny, Lynx-wearing guy, who...

Diary: Turkey of the Week - Wieden & Kennedy Amsteram/Nike's World Cup campaign.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Robin Hicks feels let down by Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam's first spot for Nike's World Cup campaign: 'Aren't Nike football ads supposed to be vaguely entertaining affairs with flicks, tricks and hip-hop? So why change a winning formula?...

The discreet world of Alan Cluer.(Biography)
March 3, 2006... Want James Nesbitt or a Jean Reno for an ad? Alan Cluer will sort it out. Dominic Mills meets the low-profile fixer with high-profile connections and a lifestyle that matches. For a man who lives and breathes the heady showbiz air, Alan...

The Work: New Campaigns - UK.
March 3, 2006... ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR - AA - You've Got a Friend Project: You've Got a Friend Client: Kerry Cooper, sales and marketing director, AA Brief: Drive consideration by getting people to understand that the AA is the best breakdown organisation...

The Work: New Campaigns - The World.(Mazda France, DDB Canada)
March 3, 2006... HOCKEY CANADA - HAND - CANADA Project: Hand Client: Brad Pascall, marketing manager Hockey Canada Brief: Promote the love of the game and hockey's special place in Canadians' hearts Creative agency: DDB Canada Writer: Todd Mackie...

The Work: Private View.
March 3, 2006... CREATIVE - Robert Campbell, partner, United London HP Sauce (3). We open on a guy having breakfast with his girlfriend. 'I'm sorry, Susan, I just can't do this any more,' he says, as he sneers at a fancy French croissant. To the tune...

Movers: Appointment at Watson Phillips Norman.(Sandra Money appointed)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Sandra Money: Watson Phillips Norman has hired Money to lead its newly created in-house TV production unit. Money joins from WWAV Rapp Collins, where she was the head of TV and a member of the board. The appointment reunites her with the...

Movers: Appointment at Unique Digital.(Unique Digital Marketing Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Unique Digital has strengthened its media and strategic credentials with two new roles. The media manager, James Briscoe, who has worked at the agency for two years, has been promoted to head of media. Richard Dance, a former group account...

Movers: Appointment at GCap Media.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... GCap Media has hired Stephen Fuller (pictured) as its commercial group head, as part of a restructure. In his new role, Fuller will be responsible for GCap's cross-selling alliance with Viacom and IPC, called RSVP. He will also lead its...

Movers: Appointment at Clark McKay & Walpole.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... Clark McKay & Walpole has strengthened its account handling division with two internal promotions. Vicki Collingwood (pictured, top) has been made the senior account director on the agency's new Peugeot account. Collingwood has worked at...

Movers: Appointment at FCB London.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2006... FCB London has hired Katya Zenkovich as a senior strategic planner working on its Beiersdorf, Nivea and Motorola accounts. Zenkovich joins from the direct marketing agency Clark McKay & Walpole, where she was a senior planner on Butlins, Weight...