LONDON - Gin liqueur Pimm's is to make light of the traditional British summer in a new television campaign starring Harry, the naive hooray Henry who appeared in last summer's ads for the spirit.
LONDON - An ad for the British Heart Foundation, showing a woman suffocating with a plastic bag over her head, received more complaints than any other press ad in 2002, with 315 people saying they were worried it would encourage children to copy it.
LONDON - Media secretary Tessa Jowell has strenuously defended the government's stand on allowing US companies to invest in UK television and allowing Five to be bought by News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch.
NEW YORK – The war against spammers has been ratcheted up a notch as the US state of Virginia yesterday passed a law that imposes harsh penalties on those behind the deluge of spam emails.
LONDON - Agency Republic has strengthened its creative team with the news that it has hired Ogilvy Interactive's James Cooper and Pierre Odendaal.
LONDON - The Competition Commission has sent letters to Granada and Carlton, as part of its inquiry into their £2.6bn merger, which warn it is considering a complete ban on the merger as well as possibly forcing the two to sell off their TV sales houses.
NEW YORK - Bill Gates has warned that publishers who view websites as mere sidelines for their print editions are ignoring the next generation of readers.
LONDON - O2 has renewed its sponsorship of Channel 4's 'Big Brother' in a £4.5m deal, expanding its coverage to include media messaging, quizzes, games and a 'Big Brother' Wap site.
LONDON - Sky Digital is running a pilot scheme, in conjunction with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, for its digital subscribers to vote in local elections via their remote control.
LONDON - Hearst has not ruled out the launch of a UK edition of its latest acquisition, the teen magazine Seventeen, but National Magazine Company chief Terry Mansfield has said it is too early to make international plans for the magazine.
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