19 Dec 2000
- Cable & Wireless has acquired the full service new media agency Hyperlink Interactive, whose clients include Allders, Britannia Music Company, Post Office Counters and Peoplsound.com.
19 Dec 2000
- The poster campaign for Yves Saint Laurent s Opium perfume featuring naked model Sophie Dahl is one of the most complained about ads in the history of the Advertising Standards Authority and has been ordered to be taken down.
19 Dec 2000
- The poster campaign for Yves Saint Laurent s Opium perfume featuring naked model Sophie Dahl is one of the most complained about ads in the history of the Advertising Standards Authority and has been ordered to be taken down.
18 Dec 2000
- People working in the advertising or tobacco industries who try to get round the Government s ban on tobacco promotion will be liable to a fine of 5,000 and three months imprisonment.
18 Dec 2000
- People working in the advertising or tobacco industries who try to get round the Government s ban on tobacco promotion will be liable to a fine of 5,000 and three months imprisonment.
18 Dec 2000
- Agency.com, the global digital agency, has made 190 staff redundancies as part of a major restructuring plan. The agency has laid off over 30 of its UK staff, and closed an office in Colorado.
18 Dec 2000
- Agency.com, the global digital agency, has made 190 staff redundancies as part of a major restructuring plan. The agency has laid off over 30 of its UK staff, and closed an office in Colorado.
15 Dec 2000
| by JEREMY WHITE
Jay Pond-Jones, the former creative director of Bates Dorland and GGT, has been hired by HHCL & Partners to be its fifth creative director. Pond-Jones will work alongside Steve Henry, Axel Chaldecott, Alan Young and Pete Kirby. He starts on 1 February.
15 Dec 2000
Jeremy Bullmore, one of the most respected figures in the advertising business, is to write a weekly problem-solving column in Campaign from January.
15 Dec 2000
| by IAN DARBY
Nick Brien, the chief executive of Leo Burnett London, is leaving the agency to take a key role in the Starcom MediaVest Group media operation in America.