Puma links with Football League
21 Dec 2005
Puma is to sponsor the Football League, having signed up as its first official technical partner.
Yahoo! is to open up its broadband music-video service to third-party advertisers for the first time in the new year, becoming the first UK provider to do so.
Puma is to sponsor the Football League, having signed up as its first official technical partner.
Audi is backing the launch of its RS4, a high-performance version of its A4 model, with a £4m campaign.
Coca-Cola is renewing its sponsorship deal with UEFA by becoming an official top-tier partner, joining MasterCard, McDonald's, Carlsberg and JVC until 2009. The deal includes sponsorship rights for Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.
Signet, the retail group that owns H Samuel and Ernest Jones, has handed its £5m advertising account to St Luke's. The agency won the business following a pitch against Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest and Isobel.
Total is in talks with local authorities in Hemel Hempstead about setting up a fund for the local community. Its actions follow the blast at the Buncefield oil plant, which it owns jointly with Texaco. Total said the fund was likely to be backed by marketing activity.
Carphone Warehouse has acquired rival One.Tel to bolster TalkTalk, its fixed-line telecoms business. The £132m deal will see One.Tel's services rebranded to TalkTalk and promoted through the distribution channels of its former owner, Centrica.
Travelodge is to run a £4m ad campaign in the new year, highlighting its low room rates. The activity, which will run across press, poster, online and radio, is the first work by its new ad agency, Doner Cardwell Hawkins.
The Observer is relaunching in the Berliner format from 8 January as it becomes the only full-colour Sunday newspaper. A monthly magazine - Observer Woman - will be added as part of the redesign.
ITV News Channel will cease broadcasting this Friday (23 December). ITV decided to shut the 24-hour rolling news channel last week.