19 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - WPP Group media agency Mediaedge:cia has won more work from Citibank, having ousted rival Aegis Group from the bank's US outdoor media business.
18 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - A spat has broken out between BBC World and CNBC over which financial news service has the most desirable audience, with CNBC being rapped in the process.
12 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - ING Barings, the Dutch investment bank, is to hand its £15m UK media account to Media Planning Group.
03 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - BBC World, the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, has held on to the audience it gained in 2001 as well as showing annual growth in some of Asia's biggest urban markets, according to new research.
29 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - Internet bank Smile is breaking with rivals' rates-driven messages and is trialling a more ethics-focused approach with its latest online advertising campaign.
27 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON – Granada has responded to shareholder calls for a heavyweight outside director to be appointed to its board by naming the chief executive of HBOS, one of the UK's largest banks, as a non-executive director.
27 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Black Horse, the personal loans division of Lloyds TSB, is using a direct response advertising campaign and below-the-line activity to raise awareness of its product range among people with poor credit ratings.
27 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Insurance firm AMP Pearl has appointed an agency to raise awareness of its Lump Sum Life Assurance policy with a direct mail campaign.
26 Nov 2002
| by Michael Byrne,
LONDON - In a turn of events that would amuse the Pringle-wearing DJ himself, UK pensions and insurance firm Norwich Union is entertaining the idea of Alan Partridge being its spokesman in a new advertising campaign.
25 Nov 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - A television ad for Yahoo! showing a naked bridegroom-to-be tied to a tree and being eyed up by a camp-looking man is to be pulled from the air today after complaints from the gay community.