The Royal Institute for the Deaf has appointed Watson Phillips Norman to handle its direct marketing account. In Marketing Week April 15 it was incorrectly reported that the Royal Institute for the Blind (RNIB) had awarded its business to the agency. The RNIB works with Target Direct on direct marketing.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by financial company Egg against rival Halifax for a press campaign with the headline “Egg beating”. The ASA has ruled that the headline is misleading because Halifax does not offer better rates than Egg, and has asked the bank not to repeat the claim. The advertising […]
…Barclays, the parent company of Barclaycard, has announced a tweak to its visual identity carried out by Williams Murray Hammond, to establish a single identity for all its UK and global brands.
Diamond, the women-only car insurer owned by Admiral Insurance, is mailing its customers as part of a lobbying campaign designed to ward off forthcoming European Union legislation banning gender-based insurance that would threaten its brand. Diamond’s mailing, created in house, is inviting responses to the proposed EU banning of gender discrimination. The insurer decided against […]
Ogilvy & Mather has created a new TV campaign for Gillette-owned battery brand, Duracell.
McCann Erickson London has appointed former Leo Burnett London chief executive Stephen Whyte as its new chief executive to replace Chris Hunton…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to launch two toothpaste ranges under the Aquafresh and Macleans banners in a bid to challenge Colgate-Palmolive’s premium positioning. The first product released will be Aquafresh Zones, a three-version line that offers a mint-based toothpaste with hints of either apple, watermelon or lemon flavours. Aquafresh Zones will be launched in the UK […]
Kellogg has axed its Screamin’ Fruit Squidgers snack brand less than a year after it was launched. The cereal giant invested &£2m supporting the fruit-pulp snack, but it failed to make an impact with consumers.
A clear digital hierarchy has emerged in Europe, according to the first Digital Living Index (DLI) report, published last week by Jupiter Research. It reveals that while digital sophistication and technology are increasingly important to Europe’s consumers, European countries are not only adopting digital technology at different rates, but they are doing so in different […]
Voter turnout in elections continues to fall despite decades of advertising spend to persuade us to go to the polling stations. So how are the campaigns shaping up for June 10?
The spokespeople in Caroline Parry’s article on advertiser-funded programming (MW April 8) missed one key message: “It’s about the talent.” The key reason why radio programme directors accept outside programming is usually talent. Murray Walker is a brilliant example; an advertiser-funded programme with him was aired on 75 stations simply because “it’s Murray”. Howard Bareham […]
National Lottery operator Camelot has unveiled a shock return to sales growth for the first time in six years. The news comes as the lottery operator launches a raft of initiatives to build its games portfolio this year. Sales for the National Lottery operator rose one per cent to £4.61bn in the 12 months to […]
Prize competitions used by marketers to drive sales could cost companies twice as much under new European Commission proposals for a directive on harmonising rules governing sales promotions, industry bodies have warned. The latest draft of the directive contains a clause which says that before being allowed to run a prize promotion, a company must […]
National Lottery operator Camelot has unveiled a shock return to sales growth for the first time in six years. The news comes as the lottery operator launches a raft of initiatives to build its games portfolio this year. Sales for the National Lottery operator rose one per cent to £4.61bn in the 12 months to […]