Despite receiving 131 complaints from across the country, the Nicky Clarke shampoo ads will not be banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The Authority describes the ads, which feature naked men and women using the Nicky Clarke hair products, as ‘adults having harmless fun.’The adverts have appeared across the national press as well as… Continue reading ASA Says ‘Naked’ Shampoo Ads Are Harmless Fun
Condé Nast is to take the GQ spin-off title, GQ Active, back alongside its parent title and reduce its frequency to four times a year. The health, fitness and lifestyle magazine, currently monthly, will be packaged together with GQ in February, April, July and November next year.The title is currently circulating at around 65,000 copies… Continue reading GQ Active Becomes Quarterly Alongside GQ
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is currently facing the possibility of High Court action this week as the case against the Commission’s minimum carriage requirements review, led by Flextech (see Flextech Takes ITC ‘Unbundling’ Move To High Court), draws to a close.In August this year Flextech, the pay-TV group, took action against the ITC’s decision… Continue reading ITC’s ‘Unbundling’ High Court Case Draws To A Close
As the launch of ITV’s new digital TV channel (see Newsline), ITV2 approaches, the company has said that it is not planning to have a separate airtime sales house for the service. Instead it intends to set up a sales committee comprising representatives from each of ITV’s three sales houses, TSMS, Carlton Sales and Laser.Each… Continue reading ITV2 To Have No Dedicated Sales House
Cable and communications company, NTL, has just unveiled plans to launch what it claims to be the UK’s first fully interactive television service. The operator is to distribute set-top boxes for its service outside NTL cable franchise areas, making it nationally available.The service, set to launch next Spring, is not to be confused with cable… Continue reading NTL Unveils Interactive Services
The BBC is due to announce plans this afternoon to reorganise its television news service. It is understood that the Six O’Clock News is to be extended by half an hour, and will concentrate on national and regional reports, with the Nine O’clock News focusing more on global events and situations.The development comes after ITN’s… Continue reading BBC Plans To Shift News
Women in Direct Marketing (WDM), an organisation which ‘aims to help women at every level in direct marketing to develop their full potential and to achieve their personal and professional ambitions’, has launched a website, located at www.wdm-uk.org.The site provides information about the organisation, as well as listing social events, training, networking and citing female-related… Continue reading Direct Marketing Website For Women
After the departure of its editor in August (see Newsline), the IPC title Muzik has found a replacement for the position in the form of Ben Turner.Ben Turner is the youngest-ever editor at IPC, at the tender age of 24. He has been with IPC since 1989, when he was taken on for work experience,… Continue reading Changes At IPC
ITV sales house, Laser, has unveiled its new identity as Granada Mediasales. The change of name and logo is designed to associate the sales operation with the ‘strength of the Granada name’, according to Mick Desmond, chief executive.The new branding was developed by Manchester-based creative agency, Tucker Clarke Williams. An advertising campaign will officially launch… Continue reading Laser Becomes Granada Mediasales
The EC has published a list of the national contact points and names for commercial communication issues. This is the list of government officials attending the Expert Group on Commercial Communications, the next meeting of which has been fixed for 22 October 1998.
