21 Dec 2007
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Weight Watchers has awarded its £10m UK media planning and buying account to OMD, after a four-way pitch.
21 Dec 2007
| by Bill Britt
LONDON - The best-read forums that received the most comments in Brand Republic during 2007 revolved around recurrent themes: reality TV, social networks and celebrities.
20 Dec 2007
| by John Tylee
Sony has picked Mediaedge:cia to handle its $250 million media planning and buying account for the Asian region.
19 Dec 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - MTV and Jerry Bruckheimer, the award-winning producer behind 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Top Gun', is to launch a videogame development centre.
19 Dec 2007
There may be less fat, less salt and less sugar in the plethora of products on the shelves, but the value of the UK's stellar FMCG brands is still riding high. The value of the top 50 brands rose by 4% to more than £77bn last year, according to the 2007 Biggest Brands table, compiled exclusively for...
18 Dec 2007
| by Gail Kemp
LONDON - Retailers and celebrities are the stand-out themes of this year's ad-recall tables. Marketing's Adwatch of the Year underlines the former's success in generating memorable ads, and the impact the inclusion of the latter can have.
17 Dec 2007
| by John Tylee
LONDON - LG, the South Korean electronics giant, has picked Young & Rubicam to work alongside Bartle Bogle Hegarty on its £175 million global branding account.
17 Dec 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - DatingDirect.com is turning the traditional dating stereotype on its head by putting women in control in a TV campaign directed by 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Sex in the City' producer Pam Thomas.
17 Dec 2007
| by Darren Davidson
LONDON - A long-copy ad from The Red Brick Road for Olympus featuring the gaping mouth of a killer shark has scooped the November Anna for National Newspaper Advertising.
13 Dec 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - Carphone Warehouse has appointed Oxfordshire-based data marketing company Blueberry Wave to analyse data from its 4.5m mobile customers in France.