Mediapolis has won the Grand Prix prize for its Orange campaign at the 1997 Media Week Awards. The campaign also won gold for multimedia campaign of the year. Western International Media was awarded gold for best long-term media campaign and best media effectiveness for its Jack Daniel’s campaign.
Current controller of children’s and youth programmes Vanessa Chapman has announced that she will leave ITV Network Centre at the end of this year. Chapman will be replaced by Nigel Pickard who will move from Flextech where he is vice president, production and oversaw the launch of Flextech’s interactive quiz show channel Challenge TV.ITV Network… Continue reading New Controller For CITV
Wagadon’s women’s title Frank has reported first issue sales figures in the region of 131,000. The magazine launched in September with a print run of 220,000 and is hoping to settle for a circulation of around 100,000.Frank: 0171 689 2266
WPP today announced a third quarter trading update which showed that the company’s UK operations, which include Ogilvy & Mather and JWT, saw an increase in revenue of 6.3% year on year to £83.9m.Figures revealed however that of WPP’s various communication companies it was the advertising section which reported the lowest growth at 6.7% year… Continue reading WPP Reports Good Quarterly Results
PC Week , VNU Business Publications’ computer weekly, is set to expand with more editorial pages and an increased marketing budget. It has also been announced that American publisher Ziff Davis and VNU have agreed a revised licence which will ensure that VNU prints the title into the next century.There are also two new appointments,… Continue reading Expansion For PC Week
ITV chief executive Richard Eyre has announced the appointment of John Hardie as ITV’s marketing and commercial director. Hardie moves from Procter & Gamble where he is managing director, Cosmetics & Toiletries (Europe). Whilst there he has headed projects for Max Factor, Cover Girl and Old Spice.Hardie will begin work at the ITV Network Centre… Continue reading ITV Appoints New Marketing And Commercial Director
According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September, excluding GMTV, came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m and C4 £46.8m. There was a large month on month revenue increase at C5, where there was growth from £6.75m to £9.03m, while GMTV saw a year on year drop of 6.7%… Continue reading TV Revenue – September
Douwe Egberts coffee brand has signed a deal with Channel 4 to sponsor its comedy programme Frasier. The sponsorship, believed to be worth £350,000, will run for nine episodes beginning this Friday.…Unilever has signed a deal with Sky TV for its Persil brand to sponsor the new series of ER which begins tomorrow night and… Continue reading Sponsorship Briefs
Christine Walker, ex-chief executive of Zenith, is rumoured to be preparing the launch of a media operation in conjunction with M&C Saatchi. It is expected that the new outfit will take on the media buying and planning tasks for M&C Saatchi’s new clients.
The Guardian and the Observer have made a series of commercial appointments. Joe Clark and Stuart Taylor, ad managers for the Guardian and Observer respectively, will swap roles from 1 November to develop their internal editorial contacts and broaden their newspaper experience. Simon Cooke has been promoted to newspaper business manager, reporting to Joe and… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
