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NEWS Ferrero Rocher calls £5m ad review By Staff, 16-Jun-10, 09:30 Ferrero Rocher has called a review of its advertising business, estimated at £5m and currently handled by WCRS. Costa wins ad battle with Starbucks By John Reynolds, 16-Jun-10, 09:45 Costa Coffee has scored a victory against Starbucks after the rival coffee chain's complaint to the advertising watchdog about Costa's provocative '7 out of 10 coffee lovers prefer Costa' campaign was rejected. ITV's nightmare World Cup 2010 continues By Sara Kimberley, 16-Jun-10, 09:30 ITV's World Cup nightmare continues today after the broadcaster was forced to sack football pundit Robbie Earle for causing an ambush marketing scandal during the Holland vs Denmark game. BR Video: Final Big Brother brings pain and guilty pleasure By Daniel Farey-Jones, 15-Jun-10, 17:18 The return of 'Big Brother' for its last series on Channel 4 has been greeted with dismay by the over 30s and patchy enthusiasm from the under 30s, according people interviewed in the latest BR Video. Brand Republic: a change is gonna come By Rich Sutcliffe, 15-Jun-10, 14:30 Over the coming days you can expect to see some changes on Brand Republic, with improvements to the design, usability and functionality of the site. ALSO IN THE NEWS Npower launches football-themed energy tariff By Alex Brownsell, 16-Jun-10, 09:30 Randstad to launch multimillion pound UK marketing campaign By Katherine Levy, 15-Jun-10, 17:00 Budweiser ad encourages drinkers to designate a driver By Alex Brownsell, 16-Jun-10, 09:50 Comcast appoints new EMEA ad sales director By John Reynolds , 15-Jun-10, 14:40 DMGT local network to expand to 200 sites By Maisie Mccabe, 15-Jun-10, 13:15 LATEST BLOG ENTRIES THE FACTS OF LIFE By Dave Trott / Brand Republic   I was talking to Mary Wear the other day. Mary is an interesting person. She has pretty much set her life up exactly as she wants. Rather... WPP's cultural influence By Hugh Salmon / Brand Republic In the 11 June Campaign feature on WPP?s 25th anniversary, and in the editorial which discussed ?why opinion will always be divided over Sorrell?,... Outdoor scores every time; re-count demanded of Media 360 votes By Ivan Clark / Brand Republic Those of you who were at Media 360 in Manchester last week will know that TV won the audience vote as the medium with the brightest future during... Brands need to change their approach to digital marketing By Scott Knox / Brand Republic By Scott Knox, Managing Director, MCCA   The World Cup is finally here after months of buzz and speculation. Whether you?re a fan or not... Why I do not love Volkswagen's new survey By Chris Barraclough / Brand Republic Volkswagen has fallen into a creative trap with their latest data capture survey, "Your Volkswagen Adventure." We'll ignore the fact... Augmented reality: the good, the bad and the future By Andrew Mccormick / Brand Republic We first wrote about augmented reality in depth back in March last year . At the time, the wow factor was high and people were amazed by early... SHOCK! HORROR! World Cup sponsors NOT most associated with World Cup By Chris Reed / Brand Republic It should come as no surprise whatsoever that non-World Cup sponsors have out-scored official World Cup sponsors in on line buzz according to... And the real World Cup winners are? By Joe Hughes / Brand Republic Most readers will doubtless be aware of a certain kickabout that started in Africa on Friday. Some brands have fallen into the age-old trap of... MORE BLOGS MORE WHITEPAPERS Click here to view in your web browser To guarantee delivery, add us to your address book (How?)   Brand Republic: News | Blogs | Forums | Ad of the day | Research | Events | Agency Showcase | Brand Republic Jobs: Advertising | Marketing | Media | Sales Promotion | Market Research | Digital | Public Relations | Design | Events | Direct Marketing | Manage my bulletins | Unsubscribe from this bulletin