29 Mar 2001
| by POPPY BRECH
Vodafone is set to appoint Wieden & Kennedy as its global creative
agency as it develops the first global mobile service brand.
Both Wieden & Kennedy and WCRS are understood to have presented creative
work to Vodafone global brand chief David Haines, who joined the company
from Coca-Cola...
29 Mar 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
BT Cellnet has added ehs:realtime to its direct marketing agency
roster, and given an extra slice of business to incumbent Tullo Marshall
Warren (TMW).
The mobile phone brand has handed ehs:realtime a place on its roster
with a brief to develop a 'thoroughbred' customer relationship
management...
22 Mar 2001
BT, facing mounting calls for top management to quit, has called
off a meeting with key shareholders that had been scheduled for the
evening of Tuesday, March 20. Investors had been expected to press BT to
abandon the planned flotation of its mobile phone business.
22 Mar 2001
Psion has picked Tequila London to handle its through-the-line
business after a four-way pitch. The appointment signals a greater focus
on below-the-line work for the handheld computer company following an
analysis of the firm's marketing strategy by marketing director Alasdair
Seton-Marsden....
22 Mar 2001
Ericsson is to review its global sponsorship strategy as it seeks
to maximise the impact of its estimated pounds 40m annual sponsorship
spend.
The mobile phone giant's sports marketing activities include backing the
ATP Men's Tour tennis event in Miami and French football side
Marseilles....
22 Mar 2001
ICL, the computer services and systems integration firm, has
promoted John Bennett to the new post of group executive director for
marketing.
Bennett, 56, effectively takes the top marketing role vacated by John
Davison, the group marketing director who left last August in a
management...
22 Mar 2001
Amazon.co.uk has signed a deal with Genie, the BT-owned mobile
portal, to enable its users to buy Amazon products directly on their WAP
phones. The free service can be accessed via Genie's WAP portal at
wap.genie.co.uk, or directly via Amazon.co.uk.
16 Mar 2001
Dell Computers is reviewing its pounds 5 million UK creative
account.
Travis Sully Harari currently handles the business, which involves
product advertising across Dell's range. The company has yet to draw up
a shortlist for the pitch, which will run from Dell's Irish
headquarters....
16 Mar 2001
| by JEREMY WHITE
Genie's selling point is that it's all about the mobile generation.
For those of us who feel incomplete without calling home ten minutes
before we get there to utter the now irritating phrase: 'I'm on the
train.'
It's all about piping out content from the web through to mobile phones...
09 Mar 2001
| by DEBORAH BONELLO
Another brave stab at the much hyped mobile marketing market, Yellphone.com offers mobile phone users the chance to access ringtones, games, logos and other gimmicks online through the site. The revenue streams for the company will come in through banner advertising and, perhaps more importantly, through...