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Five has secured Midway Games as the exclusive broadcast sponsor of it new factual entertainment show, Boxing Academy, which launches on the channel later this year.The deal runs from 18 October to 15 November and sees Midway promote its new fighting game, Mortal Kombat: Deception, through a package of five-hour long programmes and a live… Continue reading Five Secures Sponsor For Boxing Academy Show

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox is to team up with Mobile 365, formed from the recently merged Mobileway and InphoMatch, to create a wide-reaching wireless campaign for the company’s Alien Vs Predator film.The deal will offer film fans exclusive wallpaper and ring tones for their mobile phones, themed on the autumn blockbuster. The exclusive images… Continue reading Mobile Marketing Pushes Alien Versus Predator Film

ZenithOptimedia has revised upwards it global advertising spending forecast for this year from 4.2% to 6.2% as world-wide advertising confidence holds despite oil and consumer uncertainties.After Zenith’s cautious forecasts in April, the group returned to its crystal ball and has revised all global predictions upwards. The updated report says, by 2005 the global advertising expenditure… Continue reading Advertising Market Looks Set To Grow By 6.2%

The BBC has revealed that its latest high-profile signing, Graham Norton, is to present a new dancing talent-competition called Strictly Dance Fever.The show follows the success of the the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and aims to capitalise on the current wave of interest in amateur dancing by giving thousands of ordinary people the chance compete… Continue reading Norton To Front Come Dancing Spin-Off For BBC

Visitors to London’s Transport Museum will soon be able to step back through the ages of advertising on the capital’s transport networks, as Viacom Outdoor prepares to sponsor the museum’s new art gallery in Covent Garden.The £180,000 sponsorship forms part of a major re-development of the London Transport Museum beginning next year. The new art… Continue reading Viacom To Sponsor London Transport Museum Gallery

Jobs at WPP’s newly acquired American advertising group, Grey Global, will be cut by almost 7%, in a bid to reduce costs and boost profits.According to today’s Times, a number of jobs will be culled at Grey’s London office by WPP, the world’s second largest advertising agency, which acquired Grey last month for £845 million.The… Continue reading WPP Planning To Cut 7% Of Jobs At Grey

ITV’s website for children has taken on a new look to promote the launch of Shark Tale, the new computer-animated movie from Dreamworks.United Virtualities has launched an Ooqa-Ooqa branded browser campaign for the movie, which will run for three weeks on www.citv.co.uk in the UK and concurrently in a range of other markets including France,… Continue reading CiTV Website Takes On Shark Tale Branding

The Digital Radio Development Bureau is launching the next phase in its £11 million advertising campaign to promote the digital radio industry in the run up to the key Christmas sales period.The campaign will run for four weeks across more than 200 analogue radio stations, including national and regional platforms. A version of the 20-second… Continue reading Digital Radio Industry Launches New Promotional Push

Outdoor advertising heavyweight Maiden saw an unexpectedly poor day’s trading yesterday, losing 0.43% to close at 231˝p, despite the company announcing two new account wins to strengthen its burgeoning rail advertising business (see Maiden Expand Rail Business With New Account Wins).The contract wins with the Go Ahead Group’s New Southern Railway and Thameslink subsidiaries should… Continue reading Sharewatch: Maiden Dips Despite Rail Wins

New forecasts from the Digital Radio Development Bureau predict a massive boom in popularity for DAB digital radio, rising by a staggering 1200% from around one million sets currently in British homes to 13 million by 2008.The DRDB’s Five-Year DAB Digital Radio Forecast predicts that around 29% of British homes will posses a digital radio… Continue reading Third Of UK Homes To Have Digital Radio By 2008