CampaignLive Update
30 Oct 1998 | by JOHN TYLEE
CampaignLive continues to break the top industry stories. Here are some of the headlines that have appeared on CampaignLive during the past few days:
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The successful trials of consumer brands by first-time internet advertisers during the World Cup will create a surge in web advertising, according to a new report from Fletcher Research.
CampaignLive continues to break the top industry stories. Here are some of the headlines that have appeared on CampaignLive during the past few days:
AOL, the UK s largest online service provider, becomes the first company in its sector to advertise on TV next week when a new pounds 6 million campaign breaks.
Archibald Ingall Stretton has unveiled its debut work for VirginNet, the account it picked up in September before it officially launched (Campaign, 11 September).
You could argue that this isn t the best time to launch a new media specialist and it certainly isn t a good time to introduce a supposedly revolutionary new concept in planning and buying. But just try telling that to the former BT marketing man, Dominic Owens, Carat s head of planning, Simon King,...
VIRGIN CLOTHING
So you run a London agency which suffers from the perception that it is a satellite operation under the control of its American parent.
Pioneers, as someone observed to me recently, tend to end up with arrows in their chests. This is true, but others who survive tend to end up with big chunks of land that translate into big chunks of wealth.
What is Dixons up to with Freeserve? A chain of high street electrical shops offering what others never have - free access to the internet. Naturally, the move has given a much-needed lift to Dixons public image, but not without it going to much trouble and expense.
IBM was back on top of Fletcher Research s table of the highest spending online advertisers in the UK for July with a pounds 117,000 spend.