Sue Forster, currently publisher in the music division of IPC Magazines’ Specialist Group, is joining the Home and General Interest team in SouthBank as publisher of Country Homes and Interiors and Essentials.With Forster joining the SouthBank team, there will be a realignment of publishing responsibilities: Linda Swidenbank becomes publisher of Homes and Ideas and Woman… Continue reading New Appointment At SouthBank
Highbury House Communications is launching three new sports related magazines.Super League – The Magazine goes on sale 16 October priced £2.50 and an initial print run of 50,000. All Blacks – The Tour hits the newsstands on 6 November also with a print run 50,000. Sports Illustrated – Swimwear UK Edition is an annual title… Continue reading 3 New Sports Magazines
Ads for the Ford Puma, Coke, Tango, Guinness, Mercedes Benz, Nike, Virgin, VW and Wallis are revealed as some of the personal favourites of the UK’s top advertising agency creative directors in an exhibition to mark the re-opening of the public areas of the IPA on 4th September.Creative directors from the Top 20 advertising agencies… Continue reading Creative Directors Choose Favourite Ads
XFM will be spending around £1m on an advertising campaign to back its launch on Monday. The indie radio station will be running press, poster and TV ads for two weeks. Airtime sales for Xfm will be handled by Katz Radio Sales.Xfm: 0171 580 7577
…Saatchi & Saatchi has welcomed back three former employees to the company, Andy Davis is a strategic director, Steve Chinn will have responsibility for planning standing across Europe and Vicky Wiggins is to become a senior planner.…M & C Saatchi has confirmed that Tim Duffy has been promoted to managing director of the agency from… Continue reading Appointment News
BSkyB has confirmed that Graham Appleby, formerly of Initiative Media, is to join the company in its client sales department. Meanwhile, Roy Jeans, managing director of Amra, will join Initiative as its non-broadcast director.… The Scotsman newspaper has announced that Stephen Tate will be joining next month, taking up the position of deputy advertising director.…… Continue reading Appointment News
Newcastle United’s Wednesday night European football match didn’t have the same appeal with the viewers as an old episode of Inspector Morse, only attracting 6.91 million viewers compared to 9.47 million for the detective show. The match was a preliminary round match to the Champions league which last season attracted audiences of above 9 million… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 17/08/97
The Lucozade ad which featured the Fat Slags from Viz was withdrawn and replaced with a different version after hundreds of viewers complained about the use of the word “slags”.180 complaints were initially received before the BACC imposed a post-7.30pm timing restriction. Lucozade then withdrew the ad and created a new version which replaced “Fat… Continue reading “Fat Slags” Ad Withdrawn
TDI has recruited seven new sales staff to cope with the growing bus advertising market. Lynne Blackwood from the Scotsman, Nick Forster from Cellnet, Garry Hobson and Steven Reid, both from Yellow Pages, Jeff Keating from Initial Textile Services, David McCallum from Independent Radio Group and Robert Shepherd from Thomson Newspapers will all be regionally… Continue reading TDI Expands Sales Team
The CIA Group plc has announced details of a restructuring of the company European operations. The company will now be universally known as CIA Medianetwork Europe across the continent. The renaming will see Mainardo de Nardis promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer.CIA Medianetwork: 0171 803 2254
