20 Dec 2001
The latest instalment in BT's 'Bringing people together' ads
showcases the telecoms company's free messaging service, BT Answer 1571,
with a naughty vignette of young love and old age. The 40-second spot,
created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO with media by The Allmond
Partnership, breaks nationally...
20 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
Phones 4u, the mobile phone reseller, has handed its 10m
direct sales account to JRT and its strategic media partner Universal
McCann Birmingham as it attempts to increase its share of the
market.
The direct arm of the business is based on generating calls from
consumers through advertising....
20 Dec 2001
NTL has hired Paul Stevenson as head of marketing for its North
East and East Midlands division. His appointment comes as the cable
company seeks to shift its marketing from national brand campaigns to
more regional activity (Marketing, December 13).
20 Dec 2001
BT Cellnet is teaming up with wireless marketing company
Smartfusion to launch a Christmas competition. Players register via
telephone and then text answers to questions printed in The Sun and on
the Channel 5 web site.
20 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
Warner Bros and Eurosport have teamed up to create the first
multinational mobile marketing campaign as part of the film company's
efforts to bolster its customer base.
A six-week campaign for the forthcoming film Ocean's Eleven is running
simultaneously in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain...
20 Dec 2001
| by JULES GRANT
BT pokes fun at New Age business trends that emerged in the 90s in
its latest advertising aimed at business customers. The campaign
represents St Luke's first work on the account, which it won from M 15m. Press, poster, radio and online activity accompany the
television campaign.
TV buying...
14 Dec 2001
The cable company ntl is planning a restructure that could result
in a further 2,000 jobs being cut. At the end of September, the company,
currently 12 billion in the red, announced it was reducing its
workforce from 17,000 to 15,000 by the end of next year. The bulk of the
losses are expected...
14 Dec 2001
| by LARRY BARKER, the creative director of BMP DDB and RONNIE
BARKER, currently resting in Oxford
LARRY BARKER
Yo-ho-ho. Well that's the Xmas bonhomie out the way - now down to
business.
The observant among you will notice that my language is somewhat
moderated this week.
Let me assure you, this is entirely due to the proximity of my father,
rather than the presence of...
13 Dec 2001
Nokia has issued an upbeat forecast, predicting handset sales for
the last three months of the year will be 25% higher than the previous
three months, although sales will be flat for the year as a whole.
13 Dec 2001
Orange has acquired the three-year mobile games and entertainment
rights for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.