31 Dec 1997
| by Gordon MacMillan.
Putting product information and a transactional facility in your
customer s pocket is one thing - getting them to use it is another.
Marketers hoping to sell to customers via the Nokia Communicator (Cool
Toy, October) or personal digital assistants (PDAs) plugged into mobile
phones, should reflect on...
31 Dec 1997
| by Stovin Hayter.
A new venture capital fund has been created to provide cash for
British early-stage new-media ventures. The fund, called Amadeus, is run
by Herman Hauser, founder of Acorn Computer. It has around œ30m to invest,
and has attracted funding from Microsoft, among others. Hauser said the
fund had been launched...
31 Dec 1997
| by Stovin Hayter.
Legal & General has launched an online service to allow customers to
manage their financial affairs.
31 Dec 1997
Comparative quotes for car insurance are nothing new on the web.
19 Dec 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Abbey National is hijacking every advertising space in the
Independent for a day and launching a major TV campaign as part of a
pounds 10 million repositioning through Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper and TMD
Carat.
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
The Nationwide Building Society has called for a more powerful
Advertising Standards Authority in a plea to the Government to tighten
rules on financial ads. Nationwide says the ASA is impotent as it cannot
punish offenders and allows suspect ads to run while being investigated.
The indications are...
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
Shares in the newly demerged Cordiant Communications Group and
Saatchi & Saatchi received a cool welcome on the Stock Exchange on
Monday, with prices barely moving in a slow start to trading.
19 Dec 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
Campaign unveils its first new-business sin bin this week - a
selection of agencies which overclaimed the billings on certain accounts
and, as a consequence, gained a higher-than-deserved position in last
year s business performance league.
19 Dec 1997
| by RICHARD COOK
The financial services agency, Camp Chipperfield Hill Murray, is
relaunching to target the entire services sector.
19 Dec 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
The difference between the industry s and the public s view of
advertising is exposed yet again by this month s People s Jury. While
those in the know wax lyrical about Wieden s marvellously
observed eagle and blind man films for Coca-Cola, the average man
and woman in the street - or, in this...