| .jpg) | | | | |  | | EE has launched an ad featuring Kevin Bacon and two Gogglebox stars to promote its new TV service. | | | | | |  | | Facebook has begun a TV and outdoor campaign in the UK, boasting of the social media site's ability to help create and sustain friendships. | | | | | |  | | If a gong had been handed out for best brand performance at the Oscars, Lego would have run away with it. | | | | | |  | | Havas Media Group has raided Wieden & Kennedy for its new chief strategy officer, Graeme Douglas. | | | | | |  | | McCann London has created a digital and press campaign for the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity, urging agencies to send under-performing staff to the event. | | | | | |  | | The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for Kazam Online, the mobile phone manufacturer, for objectifying women. | | | | | |  | | OMD UK has launched the Newsroom, a real-time insights and ideas team, as part of a series of initiatives. | | | | | |  | | Adam & Eve/DDB has hired Ivan Pols as a creative director. Pols joins from Ogilvy & Mather, where he was a global creative director. | | | | | |  | | Burberry and Twitter have partnered to enable people anywhere in the world to take a photograph from the Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2015 Womenswear show later today. | | | | | |  | | Omnicom's PHD has retained Sainsbury's £60 million media planning and buying business after a competitive pitch against Group M agencies Maxus and MediaCom, and Publicis Groupe's ZenithOptimedia. | | | | | |  | | Vertu, the luxury phone brand, has appointed Club Havas as its global creative agency after a competitive pitch. | | | | | |  | | Unilever is on the hunt for an agency to handle global digital and social media work for the Toni & Guy range of haircare products. | | | | | |  | | Broadcasting levy proposed by MPs would benefit commercial media companies. | | | | | |  | | An organisation created by the merger of two major breast-cancer charities is looking for an agency to promote the new entity. | | | | | |  | | Dunkin' Donuts, Cottonelle, Cadillac and Samsung were among the brands to advertise around the Oscars last night. | | | | | |  | | J Walter Thompson London has appointed Danielle Bassil in the newly created role of head of integrated operations as the agency rejigs its management structure. | | | | | |  | | The Outdoor Media Centre (OMC), the industry body for the out-of-home (OOH) media sector, has appointed Alan Brydon, head of investment at Havas Media Group UK, as its chief executive. | | | | | |  | | Prostate Cancer UK is seeking an integrated direct response agency to support its mission to change the face of men's health. | | | | | |  | | Krispy Kreme has apologised for promoting "KKK Wednesdays", after Facebook followers pointed out that "KKK" is an abbreviation for the Ku Klux Klan. | | | | | |  | | Tiffany & Co has followed up its first print ad featuring a same-sex couple with a TV ad showing a range of couples getting engaged, including the two men. | | | | | |  | | HomeAway, the online holiday rentals company, is launching a global ad campaign to position itself away from rival Airbnb as the site for family holidays. | | | | | |  | | Carat is merging its Carat UK and Carat Global Management businesses to form one UK hub. | | | | | | | |  | | The number of new-business pitches in 2014 was higher than it has been for a decade, according to research from AAR. | | | | | | |
