31 Oct 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – A spoof online news story, in a style created to look like a page from CNN.com, claiming women could reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by performing fellatio regularly has landed its student author in legal trouble.
31 Oct 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Six contestants are fighting to keep a Sky One reality TV show off the air after finding out that the woman whose affections they were competing for was, in fact, a transsexual man.
31 Oct 2003
| by Ian Darby,
LONDON - Tropicana, the juice brand owned by PepsiCo, is reviewing its £3m UK media account, with the incumbent, ZenithOptimedia, repitching for the business against its fellow PepsiCo roster agencies MindShare and OMD UK.
31 Oct 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – WWAV Rapp Collins Media has hired Alex Marsh from direct media specialist Mansfield Lang as group head to look after the media requirements of clients including WWF.
31 Oct 2003
| by Ian Darby,
LONDON - Manning Gottlieb OMD is launching a planning resource called The Source, with the aim of placing communications planning at the centre of its activity and integrating it with the entire agency.
31 Oct 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - The New York Times has continued to exert its new ownership of the International Herald Tribune and promoted the Times deputy foreign editor Alison Smale to take over as the paper's managing editor.
31 Oct 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – The number of Freeview homes in the UK is believed to have passed the 2m mark just a year after it launched, a figure that looks set to rise to 4m by the end of next year, according to the BBC.
LONDON - As Google heads for a highly anticipated initial public offering, it has emerged that Microsoft approached the search firm to explore a potential partnership or even a merger with the software giant.
31 Oct 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - George Clooney is reported to be earning almost £2m for one day's work on an television ad for Martini's sparkling wine that will only be screened in Italy.
31 Oct 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Virgin.net is pushing its broadband service with a humorous campaign telling customers that will not be forced to sign up for a 12-month contract.