Month: June 2006

Axe Allen – and cut off the road of return

Marketing Week

The tricoteuses in the City have dropped their knitting, the tumbrel is readied and the guillotine blade sharpened at the prospect of Charles Allen being led to his place of execution. If ITV’s next set of financial figures don’t meet expectations, its chief executive (who thus far has experienced more lucky escapes than the Scarlet […]

Power gets the green light

Marketing Week

With the Government preparing a marketing drive to persuade the public to use environmentally friendly modes of transport, and supermarket giants such as Tesco keen to highlight the ecological aspects of their operations, the green movement is

Fixed-term appointments

Marketing Week

Some of London’s top advertising agencies are shortly expected to appoint chief executives, while other marketing services companies are bedding new bosses into their jobs.

Campaign of the month

Marketing Week

By taking the Italian beer’s reworking of Fellini’s seminal film La Dolca Vita onto the internet, digital agency Mook has produced one of the best looking websites from a UK agency this year. The site – peroniitaly.com – shows more imagination than the offline elements of the campaign, which include television, cinema and outdoor ads. […]

C4 Web TV a new test for media

Marketing Week

Channel 4 this week launches an internet television service through its website – the latest stage in plans for a massive boost in revenues and profits from new media activities over the next few years. The broadcaster will provide a live stream of its programmes and the commercials in-between on its website for the first […]

BBC takes top spot as sport sites enjoy World Cup boost

Marketing Week

Just as it does on television when a big event like the World Cup is being broadcast, the BBC currently dominates the online audience for sports. If anything, its position is even more secure on the Web – there’s no place for rival broadcaster ITV among the top ten sports sites or search terms, despite […]