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Brothers & Sisters wins Center Parcs £5m ad account
Brothers & Sisters wins Center Parcs £5m ad account
by Ian Darby
12 March 2013, 04:16PM
Center Parcs has appointed Brothers & Sisters to handle its £5m advertising account.
Tesco to buy family restaurant brand Giraffe
Tesco to buy family restaurant brand Giraffe
by Matthew Chapman
13 March 2013, 09:38AM
Tesco is buying family restaurant chain Giraffe for £50m in a move that will see it introduce the brand into its stores, according to reports.
Shell admits failings of garage food in tongue-in-cheek campaign
Shell admits failings of garage food in tongue-in-cheek campaign
by Matthew Chapman
13 March 2013, 08:00AM
Shell is acknowledging the poor reputation of garage food with a tongue-in-cheek campaign that promotes Deli2Go, its forecourt food range.
Microsoft board 'does not care' about number of Facebook likes
Microsoft board 'does not care' about number of Facebook likes
by Matthew Chapman
13 March 2013, 08:00AM
Philippa Snare, Microsoft UK's chief marketing officer, has claimed the company's senior management does not care about the number of Facebook "likes" it gets.
Accenture mulls move into cycling sponsorship
Accenture mulls move into cycling sponsorship
by John Reynolds
13 March 2013, 09:09AM
Accenture, the management consulting giant, is considering a move into cycling sponsorship and is expected to renew its sponsorship as the official technology partner of the RBS 6 Nations rugby tournament.
Telegraph's chief executive Murdoch MacLennan outlines restructure
Telegraph's chief executive Murdoch MacLennan outlines restructure
by Staff
12 March 2013, 05:04PM
Murdoch MacLennan, chief executive of Telegraph Media Group, yesterday informed staff about the company's restructure, in a letter and later on the company's intranet system, which included details about the loss of 80 "mostly print-based" editorial ...
Tracy de Groose to take lead role at Media360
Tracy de Groose to take lead role at Media360
by Arif Durrani
13 March 2013, 08:30AM
Tracy de Groose, chief executive of Aegis Media's Carat, will be chairperson of this year's annual industry gathering, Media360.
Sport England builds roster to inspire Olympic legacy
Sport England builds roster to inspire Olympic legacy
by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
13 March 2013, 08:50AM
A £1bn project to build a lasting Olympic legacy across the UK is hunting for comms help.
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Opinion
Scandal of some great agencies ignored by Govt
Scandal of some great agencies ignored by Govt
by Jeremy Lee
07 March 2013, 08:00AM
For the Cabinet Office to conjure up a new agency - "Abbot Mead Vickers DDB" - in the list of shops to make it on to the Government's creative roster marked just another cock-up in the whole sorry and muddle-strewn process.
Advertising mustn't be the scapegoat for society's ills
Advertising mustn't be the scapegoat for society's ills
by Danny Rogers
07 March 2013, 07:00AM
"I know, let's ban the advertising." It's an increasingly common edict from government when tackling any sort of societal-behavioural problem.
Why long copy makes up for Tesco's Twitter silence
Why long copy makes up for Tesco's Twitter silence
by Claire Beale
06 March 2013, 08:00AM
I once asked an ad creative to write a couple of paragraphs about a piece of work he was very proud of. We needed a pithy summary of the ad: 200-odd words, maybe less. And we needed our couple of paragraphs within 48 hours: a luxurious amount of time...
Product placement on UK TV is not so much a damp squib, more a non-starter
Product placement on UK TV is not so much a damp squib, more a non-starter
by Arif Durrani
07 March 2013, 08:00AM
Blink and you might have missed it, which in many ways is rather apt, but last week marked two years of product placement in UK TV programmes. To call it a damp squib would be to underplay the non-starter product placement has so far turned out to be...
Helen Edwards: scrunch or fold? There's only one place Andrex's ads belong
Helen Edwards: scrunch or fold? There's only one place Andrex's ads belong
by Helen Edwards
06 March 2013, 09:00AM
Far from sparking a national debate, the Andrex 'scrunch or fold' campaign appears to have united - and perplexed - most observers.
Brand agility must not be sacrificed in the name of best practice
Brand agility must not be sacrificed in the name of best practice
by Graham Oakes
13 March 2013, 08:00AM
Adherence to marketing and technology best practice is important within an organisation, but cannot be allowed to become a drag on the agility of the business, writes Graham Oakes.
CEOs are coming round to marketers' way of thinking
CEOs are coming round to marketers' way of thinking
by Claire Beale
13 March 2013, 08:00AM
In the few weeks that I've been sitting in this editor's chair, the most insistent (and frustrating) topic of conversation with marketers has been the disconnect between marketing and the boardroom.
Has product placement failed to make the big impact that many predicted? The Marketing Society Forum
Has product placement failed to make the big impact that many predicted? The Marketing Society Forum
by
07 March 2013, 08:30AM
Scepticism persists, despite Channel 4 and several brands hailing the success of their recent TV work.
Intelligence
PeerIndex's Azeem Azhar on how brands can harness the power of influence
PeerIndex's Azeem Azhar on how brands can harness the power of influence
by Nicola Kemp
12 March 2013, 10:00AM
At a time when every consumer has the opportunity to become their own media channel, the concept of social influence has shot to the top of the marketing agenda.
The five rules of social media management
The five rules of social media management
by David Benady
08 March 2013, 10:00AM
Brands need to do more to embrace social media across their business functions, writes David Benady.
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