09 May 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - McCain Foods has awarded TBWA\London its £15m advertising account following a three-way pitch.
09 May 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Apple Tango continues its trademark tradition of the bizarre as a bemused postman posts a flood of apple juice through a letterbox in a new £3m TV and poster campaign.
09 May 2003
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Fallon has won Best of Show at the One Show Interactive Awards in New York for its series of internet movies starring the new BMW Z4 in short action-packed thrillers produced by Ridley and Tony Scott.
LONDON - The BBC is to launch a community website that will help veterans of D-Day and those fighting on other fronts get in touch with former comrades, as part of plans to commemorate next year's 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
09 May 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - British Airways has appointed Agency.com subsidiary itraffic to create an online campaign aimed at fighting off competition from low-cost airlines on the Manchester to Ireland routes.
09 May 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - AWG, which owns Anglian Water, has appointed creative marketing agency E-xentric Thinking the task of designing its new web presence, comprising seven individual websites.
09 May 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - ZenithOptimedia, the Publicis and Cordiant-owned media buying powerhouse, was this week named media agency of the year at the Periodical Publishers Association business-to-business media planning awards 2003.
09 May 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - Pfizer has consolidated the $147m media planning and buying business for Pharmacia into Carat New York, which already handles the massive Pfizer account, following its merger with US pharmaceutical rival last month.
09 May 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Piers Morgan looks set to hold on to his job as editor of the Daily Mirror despite his anti-war stance on Iraq, which helped the paper's circulation dip below 2m in March.
09 May 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - Metal Hammer, the Future Publishing music monthly, is to launch its own awards, The Golden God Awards, which will include such categories as 'Great Bands That No One Seems to Give a Shit About but Us'.