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Police have condemned the appearance of two of the Kray brothers' former gang henchmen in advertising for a new range of upmarket shirts. The Police Federation hit out over the decision of the shirtmaker Thomas Pink to offer an "undisclosed fee" to the former armed robber Freddie "The...
Zenith Media has slipped from the number one position on the AC Nielsen MMS media billings league for the first time in the agency's history. Figures for August 2000 to July 2001, released this week, show that Zenith has been overtaken by Carat, which takes the top spot with billings...
Nabs is being swamped with calls from newly redundant agency staff and others facing the axe, fuelling fears that the industry is rapidly shedding jobs in the face of recession. Staff at the advertising charity are being stretched to the limit dealing with calls about redundancy-related...
The telecoms giant Vodafone has unveiled a 250 million global advertising assault through Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam, which aims to position the brand as being relevant to everyone. The campaign will kick off on 1 September with a 60-second commercial on UK and pan-European TV during the...
Virgin Group has shortlisted four of its roster agencies to pitch for its Virgin.com creative account. The move is set to provoke controversy within Virgin as the online activity for brands such as Virgin Trains, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Megastore seems likely to be subsumed into the...
Agency reaction to billings tables has long hovered between ambivalence and hypocrisy. They hype the figures when they're good and hail them as an acknowledgement of advertising's influence on the commercial world. When they're bad, they are dismissed as an anachronism and an irrelevant...
Details have emerged about a counterbid for Tempus by Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP, revealing a management structure that has caused further disquiet in the Tempus camp. Chris Ingram, the chairman of the Tempus group, would become the co-chairman of Group MindShare Edge with Beth Gordon chairman...
The head of an inquiry into the future of party political broadcasts has backed the idea of turning them into 30-second slots like commercials. Sam Younger, the chairman of the Electoral Commission, the body which supervises elections, believes that scrapping the traditional five- or...
The custom publisher Redwood has finalised plans for its launch into the US market, with the international director, James McLeod, set to establish an office in New York and take the title of president of Redwood International. The move switches Redwood International's headquarters from...
The interactive marketing agency i-traffic, part of Agency.com, has appointed Yannis Marcou as vice-president, creative director. Marcou joins from the web agency Hyperlink, where he was the creative director. At i-traffic he will be in charge of the creative output from the London office....
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