DIRECT BRIEFS: Rivals Digital Media relaunches two sites
19 Dec 2002
Rivals Digital Media is relaunching its two e-commerce sites, Football365Shop and WorldRugbyShop
Legoland is using Road Ads to promote its opening hours over the festive season. The campaign uses lorry-side posters carrying the strapline 'Christmas Magic' together with scenes from the Windsor-based theme park. The campaign will run throughout the Christmas and New Year period on the M4, M3 and...
Rivals Digital Media is relaunching its two e-commerce sites, Football365Shop and WorldRugbyShop
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has added its voice to that of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) in calling for the planned merger of Carlton and Granada to be referred to the Competition Commission.
Playboy TV has joined forces with Kingston Interactive, the broadband interactive arm of Kingston Communications to launch its first pay-per-view video-on-demand service. The service, which launched last week, enables viewers to choose from around 50 films and programmes from the Playboy TV UK video...
The BBC has confirmed that BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy will be the controller of BBC Three, which launches on February 9. Murphy played a key role in re-applying to Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell for permission to launch the service.
Vauxhall is taking a bow to media neutrality with the restructuring of its marketing department...will ensure effective use of all marketing budgets, regardless of media selection," said Barrett. "Communication plans will be developed by understanding the benefits, costs and synergies of all media ... lead to greater co-operation between its roster of agencies as it looks for media ...
Two stories dominated the business press last week. Most of the media began the week by sounding...have it. McDonald's is finished, M S all powerful. Two years ago the same media were being equally strident about these two brands, but the stories were very different. M S was finished. The media cited its ... to be RIP. Meanwhile, fuelled by Naomi Klein's ramblings, the media were bemoaning McDonald's worldwide ...
BMRB International, the market research company, has forecast that Freeview has "a lot of catching up to do" as it battles for audience share with Sky and digital cable. In October 2002, before Freeview launched, the company reported that 41% of adults aged over 15 were able to watch digital TV, with...
Beleaguered United Airlines has moved its global media business into Mediaedge: CIA, just a week...Mediaedge:CIA won the business from Zenith Media in countries outside the US, without a formal pitch. Fallon, which holds the creative account, will handle media planning and buying in the US. Zenith won the global business in January 2001 from The Media Edge before the agency merged with CIA last ...
Adam Novak, the high-profile managing director of Royal Mail's Media Markets unit, has been handed