Month: April 2003

WWAV Rapp Collins wins £6.5m NTL Home media brief

Marketing Week

NTL Home, the consumer division of cable company NTL, has appointed WWAV Rapp Collins Media as its media planning and buying agency. The account is estimated to be worth about &£6.5m. The business was previously held by Carat. Carat’s online media buying division, Carat Interactive, will continue to work on NTL Home’s online advertising. Separately, […]

Silentnight launches children’s bed range

Marketing Week

Silentnight Beds has launched a range of children’s beds. The My First Bed Range will be supported by a television campaign, created by Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan (MWO), which breaks this week. The range includes Silentnight’s Miracoil mattress and three different headboard and base colours, various storage options and fun feet in place of casters. The […]

Viacom Outdoor threatens to sue Greenpeace over Stop Esso poems

Marketing Week

Greenpeace has been threatened with legal action by Viacom Outdoor following the pressure group’s decision to flypost the London Underground with poems attacking Esso and US President George Bush. The posters, which were posted without Viacom’s permission, were an imitation of LU’s “Poems on the Underground” and were placed on the panels on the inside […]

Slazenger set to revive old badge

Marketing Week

Sports brand Slazenger is reintroducing the “S” logo on its range of racquets, 25 years after it was scrapped in favour of the panther icon. The move forms part of an effort to make the brand more appealing to younger people. The brand is also considering a contract with designer Wale Adeyemi, whose graffiti pattern […]

The lessons of organic growth

Marketing Week

When major brand manufacturers and food retailers start moving into “alternative” trends, with a view to exploiting their “mainstream” potential, they are courting disaster. Right or wrong? Right and wrong. There is, of course, an inherent contradiction in the agents of mass consumerism adopting a creed of less equals more – a creed which, in […]

The monitor wizards

Marketing Week

Technology has made the implementation of field marketing campaigns far more dynamic, now that clients and agencies can keep an eye on the progress of the job and make adjustments based on up-to-the-minute information. By Steve Hemsley