28 Feb 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - Readers of Emap's teenage celebrity magazine Sneak are being offered free ringtones from some of the biggest pop acts around, including Busted, Blazin' Squad and Avril Lavigne.
28 Feb 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The Eminem rap game, which uses audioclips from the rap star's debut film '8 Mile', has achieved record results of more than 20,000 plays a week on the Top of the Pops website.
28 Feb 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The BBC's Radio 2 has linked up with the armed forces radio service and will be broadcasting special programmes to British personnel as the build-up of troops in the Middle East continues.
28 Feb 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The complexity of the merger between Granada and Carlton has been highlighted after the Office of Fair Trading failed to conclude its investigation into the merger within its usual 45-day period, leaving the delay convincing most that the deal will be referred to the Competition Commission.
28 Feb 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - More than half of UK sports fans do not differentiate between an official sponsor of an event or team and a brand that takes out advertising, unless a sponsor is seen to be getting involved at a grass roots level, according to research.
28 Feb 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Simon Maxwell, the publisher of Cabal Communication's lads mag Front, has left the company and is to join Future Publishing as publisher of its entertainment titles Total Film, T3 and Home Entertainment.
28 Feb 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - United Business Media has confirmed that it is looking at buying Interpublic's market research arm NFO WorldGroup as it posted a 24% fall in full-year pre-tax profits to £72.9m.
28 Feb 2003
Burkitt DDB has signed a deal with Manning Gottlieb OMD that will result in it outsourcing all its broadcast and outdoor buying.
28 Feb 2003
| by Jeremy Lee
Rocket has won the centralised media planning, buying and strategic communications account for the radio group GWR.
28 Feb 2003
The Independent Television Commission has received 45 complaints that a Walkers TV ad, made in association with Comic Relief, is offensive. The ad, by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, shows celebrities including Amanda Holden and Zoe Ball farting.