Month: August 2004

Chelsea raises its profile off the pitch with relaunch of fans’ mag

Marketing Week

Chelsea Football Club has appointed publishing company Profile Media Group to manage the contract to publish its magazines and programmes, which was previously held by Future Publishing. The deal includes the monthly publication, Chelsea Magazine, which will be relaunched in retail outlets and sent out to more than 50,000 members of the football club. The […]

LG Electronics names UK marketing director

Marketing Week

LG Electronics has appointed Connie Park as UK marketing director, following the departure of general marketing manager Nigel Couzens, who left last month (MW July 15). Park, who has already taken over the role, has moved from LG Ad – a Korean advertising agency part-owned by WPP Group – where she was global account manager […]

Sunday Times to carry free music CD

Marketing Week

The Sunday Times will carry a free music CD called Festival Fever ’04 this weekend (August 22). The CD includes tracks by Morrissey and British Sea Power and is supported by a London radio campaign…

ABC Electronic signs up BSkyB for traffic audits

Marketing Week

BSkyB is to have its three main sites – Sky.com, Sky News Online and Skysports.com – audited monthly by ABC Electronic, in a major coup for supporters of the regular measurement of Web traffic. The digital satellite television giant is only the second media company to sign up to monthly Web traffic audits: the first […]

WDMP connects British Gas to O2

Marketing Week

As a London worker, the Diary’s morning routine after a particularly tough previous day is usually a splash of chalky water followed by an hour’s diesel infusion and a particulate scrub. But some people work harder than the Diary, and need rather more. So marketing staff at British Gas were chuffed, the day after their […]

Just a sign of the times?

Marketing Week

More and more brands are using semioticians for their market research, but is the field already too crowded with options for a new technique to be a success? By Alicia Clegg

Don’t prop up pop-ups: keep them down!

Marketing Week

I wholeheartedly agree with Robert Dwek’s article crushing pop-up ads as a “bully boy” marketing tactic (MW July 29). Pop-ups are a most irritating form of internet marketing and my only wish is that you had been able to devote more column inches to a rant on this most obnoxious advertising form. What I hate […]

MP in call to scrap Sport England body

Marketing Week

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster has called for the abolition of the Government’s sports body Sport England as part of plans to create a “joined-up” government response to the country’s obesity crisis. Sport England has led the Government’s advertising response to the national obesity problem with its “Everyday Sport” campaign, which broke in June fronted […]