17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
ITV is to launch the UK’s first commercial digital free-to-air channel on the Freeview platform in the next six months, in an attempt to steal viewers away from CBBC and CBeebies.
17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
Regional press company Iliffe News & Media has propelled itself into ninth place in a league table of regional publishers with the purchase of neighbouring newspaper group LSN Media.
17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
The musical reawakening of Mancunian Britpop-sters Oasis has lead indie bible NME to offer readers a special covermounted CD to celebrate the band’s recent successful world tour.
17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
News International will press on with the review of the £30m media planning and buying account for The Sun and the News of the World, despite the exit of general manager Richard Webb.
17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
COI Communications is heading for a busy final quarter to 2005 are unveiling the reviews of its cinema buying account and also that of its coveted roster for media strategy and planning.
17 Aug 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON – You have heard of the metrosexual and most recently the retrosexual, now JWT Worldwide is releasing a book exploring the future of the 21st century man with the confident, yet not obnoxious, masculine and stylish, 'ubersexual' man.
17 Aug 2005
Saatchi Saatchi has created an animated, electrical world in its new campaign for Comet, part of a rebrand to create a warmer feel around the store. It features Scooter man, a Comet trainee. He drives through a city of TV, kettle and fridge-shaped buildings to learn about the different products as...
17 Aug 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON - Aldo, the footwear and accessories retailer, and Aids awareness group, YouthAids, have enlisted an array of celebrities including Christina Aguilera and LL Cool J for the the 'Hear No Evil? See No Evil? Speak No Evil?' international campaign.
17 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
IPC has waded into a row over rival H Bauer’s decision to use identical copy in two of its TV listings titles – TV Choice and TV Quick.
17 Aug 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON - A magazine ad for Svedka vodka, which featured a woman in a bra, knickers and fishnets taking an olive out of a man's mouth with her lips, has been slammed by the advertising watchdog.