The supermarket chain, Sainsbury’s has been criticised by the Independent Television Commission for an advert which claimed “checkouts that open on cue if there’s more than one shopper in front of You.”There were seven complaints to the ITC who said that in their experience the claim had not been fulfilled.The ITC agreed with the complainants… Continue reading ITC Raps Sainsbury’s Over Ad
Tetley’s is to sponsor the sports programming on the Leeds-based radio stations Aire FM and Magic 828. The deal, involving a 6-figure sum, covers all sports programming on the stations for the next 3 years. This is the largest ever sponsorship deal for West Yorkshire Broadcasting.Aire: 0113 245 2299
Austrian Airlines are to sponsor the Hampstead and Highgate Express’s new look leisure section, which appears on the back page of the newspaper.Lasting for a year the deal involves banner strips at the top and bottom of the back page, which itself has changed to a more chatty format, including a crossword and celebrity interviews.… Continue reading Austria Moves To Hampstead
The Sun newspaper, The Big Breakfast and Thomas Cook have teamed up for a scratchcard promotion. The Sun will be giving away £150,000 worth of breaks as the prizes in the scratchcard game which will begin next week. The promotion will last for a month and participants will need to watch the Big Breakfast every… Continue reading Big Breakfast Sun Promotion
The 16th annual ISBA sponsorship conference took place yesterday in London. The brief this year was to analyse the pound for pound value of sponsorship and speakers included representatives from Burger King, Cornhill Insurance, Association of Advertisers in Ireland, Canon and Lucozade Sport.The Head of Marketing for Burger King, Samantha Smith, kicked off the conference… Continue reading Sponsorship – It Works!
The Oldie magazine which was relaunched last year has claimed an eight fold increase in ad revenue and a print run which has almost doubled from last years 25,000 to a print run now of 44,000 and a vast increase in subs.Contact Tony West: 0171 734 2225.
CLT UK Radio, which owns Atlantic 252 and Country 1035AM, has taken a 20% share in Kingston FM, the company formed to apply for the new IR licence in Kingston-Upon-Thames The licence is due to be advertised by the Radio Authority early next year. CLT currently operates 25 television and radio stations in 9 different… Continue reading CLT Invests In Kingston FM
LPR Hessen has announced that it is to distribute Nickelodeon, VH-1, Super RTL, TM3 as part of its service. This will give the stations coverage of an extra 1 million households in the Hessen region of Germany.The BBC World Service and Viva 2 may also be distributed through LPR Hessen, although this has yet to… Continue reading Nickelodeon & VH-1 Extend Coverage In Germany
The second person to speak at the sponsorship conference was Geoff Mayhew, Publicity Manager of Cornhill Insurance. In 1977 Cornhill conducted a survey that asked members of the public to name all the insurance companies they could think of. Unfortunately for Cornhill they didn’t come out of it very well. Less than 2% of the… Continue reading Monitoring Your Sponsorship Activities – Damned Lies, And
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Future Publishing are adding yet another new title to their stable of gaming publications with the launch of a role-play magazine.Arcane, a glossy monthly, is set to launch on 9 November with a cover price of £3.00 and an initial print run of 40,000. Its coverage will include all aspects of fantasy gaming including table-top… Continue reading New Gaming Magazine For Future
