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***There’s been much ado this week about the announcement by Coca-Cola boss Muhtar Kent (left) that it’s going to put calorie counts on its fizzy drinks and stop advertising to children under 12 (a virtual impossibility in the online age ...

Two million or so people seem to think like this anyway, according to YouTube’s viewer tally of ‘The First Honest Cable Company’ from ExtremelyDecentFilms. from a UK perspective all it needs is a grinning Sir Richard Branson, supposedly the customer’s ...

Here’s the good news: we’re making a big TV campaign! And the bad – we’ve got to use the client’s ‘brand ambassadors.’ And such was clearly the fate of Havas Worldwide in the UK (formerly the agency known as Euro ...

Media takeovers are all the rage at the moment – the latest being Liberty Global’s $20bn deal for Virgin Media – and the boys in dark glasses who still inhabit the undergrowth of the City of London financial district are ...

John Malone’s Liberty Global, a big US-based cable company, is planning a bid for the UK’s Virgin Media according to the Financial Times. Virgin Media, in which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin holds just a three per cent stake (despite appearances ...

Everybody loves US satellite broadcaster DirecTV’s ads and Grey New York has produced another winner, this time plugging its ‘Genie’ device which allows you to record five shows at once. In the process it directs a few well-aimed kicks into ...

Celebrity endorsement in advertising is always a two-edged sword. Sure, having hair-style challenged David Beckham or pukkah posh Joanna Lumley around helps to create lots of lazy interest. But interest in whom? For the most part the brand is no ...

Digital agency AKQA is boosting its burgeoning branded products and services practice with the appointment of Toby Barnes as its first product strategy director. Barnes (pictured) has been creating digital products and services since 1995, working in publishing, production and ...

Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most ...