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SwitchCo hands AMV pounds 10m business.(Abbott Mead Vickers/BBDO Ltd.)(Brief Article)

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Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has picked up the pounds 10 million advertising account for the government-funded working group SwitchCo.

The agency succeeded in a pitch against WCRS, JWT and M&C Saatchi. The Haystack Group handled the pitch.

AKQA, meanwhile, is understood to have won the group's digital business in a pitch against Brand Union, Good Technology and Poke.

SwitchCo is the working group set up by the Government to co-ordinate the country's switch from analogue to digital television, set to take place between 2008 and 2012.

It is made up of the public-service broadcasters the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and five, and the digital terrestrial TV operators Crown Castle UK ...

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