Executives from five top European agencies, including WCRS, will meet next week to decide details of a planned revamp of Havas Advertising s second-string network.
The Tobacco Manufacturers Association has hired M&C Saatchi to stage a rearguard campaign on behalf of the industry in the same week that the Government accelerated its plans to bring in a ban on tobacco advertising.
BMP OMD has extended its relationship with Gillette in the UK, despite the manufacturer s decision to consolidate all media planning and buying for the US and Western Europe into the BBDO worldwide network.
Manning Gottlieb Media has landed more than pounds 10 million of new business after the low-cost international telephone service, Swiftcall, picked it to handle its media in the UK and Ireland, while TBWA GGT Simons Palmer handed it the media brief for Dr Martens.
Peter Clay, the assistant managing director of BMP DDB, is planning to leave the advertising industry this autumn.
Heart FM has sacked the DJ, Kara Noble, after photographs she had taken of the Capital FM DJ, Chris Tarrant, and a topless Sophie Rhys-Jones appeared in The Sun. Noble co-hosted the breakfast show for three-and-a-half years.
Hooper Galton, the start-up agency launched by three former Bartle Bogle Hegarty staff, has opened for business and scooped its first account - the Norwegian outdoor clothing brand, Helly Hansen.
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford this week begins the second phase of its relaunch campaign with a new TV commercial encouraging people to get NMPFT .
Tony Kaye has returned to commercials directing with a pan-European ad for the Olympus i Zoom 75, which also marks Joan Collins’ advertising comeback.
Ogilvy & Mather has followed up its controversial advertising for Impulse Body Spray with a TV and cinema commercial showing a confident young woman attracting men of all ages.
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