30 Dec 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - The Church of England has made a submission to the DCMS consultation on product placement warning lifting the ban would be to the detriment of the advertising and media planning industries.
LONDON - The Department of Health has rolled out an ad campaign set to the song 'I'd do anything' from the musical Oliver to target smokers who want to give-up in the New Year.
LONDON - Thomas Cook today (26 December) rolls out its new TV ad featuring ex-England footballer Jamie Redknapp and former pop star wife Louise Redknapp.
23 Dec 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - As adland enjoys its customary wind-down for Christmas and New Year, we leave you with a round-up of some of 2009's most interesting stories across advertising, marketing and media.
23 Dec 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - Twitter.com's international traffic has risen by 3.5% on October to 60.3 million unique users in November, according to ComScore.
LONDON - Cinema admissions in the first 11 months of the year have been the highest since 2004, with the success of 'Avatar' and forthcoming 'Sherlock Holmes' promising to round off 2009 in style.
LONDON - Usage of TV-based VoD services such as BT Vision and iPlayer is set to outstrip PC-based VoD offerings such as YouTube, new research predicts.
LONDON - Lingerie company DB Apparel has promoted Julia Nolan to the newly created position of head of marketing.
LONDON - Fiat-owned car marque Alfa Romeo has placed a poster ad 11,000 metres below sea level to promote a discount offer for its 147 model.
LONDON - Top Gear was the most-watched TV programme of the year on BBC iPlayer, as the VoD service overall received a record 88.2 million VoD requests.