Channel 5 has parted company with its incumbent media suppliers,
Carat and Michaelides & Bednash, and handed its entire pounds 10 million
media account to Walker Media without a pitch.
CDP has signed up the BBC football commentators, Des Lynam, Alan
Hansen and Dougie Donnelly, to inject World Cup topicality into the
video rental launch of Tomorrow Never Dies.
29 May 1998
| by ELEANOR TRICKETT
Harrison Patten Troughton Brand Response is putting together a
direct mail campaign for the Times, in a special promotion for the
newspaper s World Cup Fantasy Football League.
Leo Burnett has hired the creative team behind Littlewoods
award-winning football idents, Rob Nielsen and Jack Stephens.
29 May 1998
| by KAREN YATES
The European film industry has little influence on the world stage
these days. So last week s news that Polygram s film division,
responsible for Four Weddings and a Funeral and Mr Bean, was being sold
to Seagram was met with dismay. Horror of horrors - the last bastion of
European films falling into...
29 May 1998
| by ALASDAIR REID
Historically, the BARB television audience measurement system has
been paid for by its primary users: television stations, including the
BBC and the commercial sector, plus advertising agencies, advertising
consultants and media auditors. Advertisers didn t pay a thing -
directly - even if they received...
29 May 1998
| by ALASDAIR REID
The National Readership Survey has put its research contract up for
tender for the year 2000 and beyond as it reviews its research methods
following the recent dispute over newspaper supplement readership. The
last time the NRS called a review was in 1992. The contract is currently
held by IPSOS-RSL,...
29 May 1998
| by DOMINIC MILLS
So tell me, Kevin. What did you think of Tony Adams performance
in the new Jaffa Cakes commercial? A typically robust effort by the big
guy.
29 May 1998
| by DOMINIC MILLS
I don t know him, but three cheers for Mike Soutar, former FHM
editor and now managing director of Kiss FM. At last week s PPA
conference, Soutar poured a bucket of cold water over a publishing
industry that has deluded itself into thinking that masthead TV is the
next best thing to, well, colour printing....