By Staff on November 16, 2012
The British seem to love monkeys in ads and Barclaycard’s recent opus from BBH featuring a large version is packing them in on YouTube with nearly 250,000 hits in about a week. The aforementioned beast bears a certain similarity to the monkey who fronted up for the long-defunct ITV Digital and then for PG Tips [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged baclaycard, bbh, christmas, itv digital, Johnny Vegas, monkey, pg tips, toys
By Stephen Foster on March 29, 2012
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2002 closure, australian financial review, BBC, Chase Carey, cisco, damages, hackers, itv digital, nds, news corporation, news of the world, ondigital, panorama, pbs frontline, permira, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, surrey police, £1bn losses
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