NEWS: Weiland says agencies are too tight
13 Dec 1996 | by JANE AUSTIN
Paul Weiland, one of advertising s most successful commercials directors, has accused agencies of putting too much financial pressure on production companies.
A Website for one of the UK s most enduring cars, the Mini, launches this week through Ammirati Puris Lintas, including screen savers, quizzes and competitions.
Paul Weiland, one of advertising s most successful commercials directors, has accused agencies of putting too much financial pressure on production companies.
British Bakeries is putting its faith in a woman in a red Baywatch-type swimsuit to introduce dieters to its lowest-calorie loaf, Nimble Diet Watch.
Hooper s Hooch became the first alcopop to advertise on TV this week with a perplexing new campaign by Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper.
Poppe Tyson Interactive, the new-media agency owned by Bozell Worldwide, has dramatically raised its profile by poaching staff from several London Internet specialists to help with its European expansion.
The ad industry escaped a threat to its creative freedom this week with the news that the Government is to allow famous TV programmes to be parodied.
The controversial Blackcurrant Tango film through Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury has ousted Levi s as the most popular commercial among schoolchildren.
Grey has enlisted the help of two of Britain s top swimmers to try to encourage people to swim more in the latest pounds 1 million press campaign for the swimwear group, Speedo.
The Internet-only sales house, New Media Marketing and Sales, has won a contract to sell the advertising for ADHunter, a regional newspaper online classified consortium due to launch next year.
Haymarket Magazines (publisher of Campaign) is to launch a new title, the Box, about television for the intelligent viewer, next spring.