Advertising
Your mission: bring the world to life with a pint of Guinness
Will an epic new campaign be successful for the brand with the greatest legacy in advertising?
Inside Advertising
Google to buy mobile ad network for $750 million
Monday, 9 November 2009
Google is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for $750 million (£449 million) in stock.
On Advertising: Why Microsoft ran scared from a Family Guy
Monday, 9 November 2009
According to Euripides, you can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps.
The city that went to war on advertising
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Sao Paulo has banned billboards, and residents are using a hotline set up by the Mayor to report any and all offenders
ITV buoyed by predicted rise in ad revenue
Friday, 6 November 2009
ITV expects advertising revenues to grow in December for the first time in almost 18 months, but there was no word on its search for a new chairman.
Claire Beale On Advertising: Unilever is turning to a crowd of bounty hunters
Monday, 2 November 2009
Hot news, trend watchers: the age of user-generated advertising is over. Admit it, you're relieved. Phew, you're thinking, no more ads made by lonely pubescent punters in their bedrooms – the stuff made by the pros is bad enough.
Beatles fans lash out as hippie anthem used in ad
Friday, 30 October 2009
Beatles fans have reacted angrily to the use of the band's hippie anthem "All You Need Is Love" to promote a range of £300 consumer gadgets.
Claire Beale On Advertising: Adland goes on the offensive in fight for survival
Monday, 26 October 2009
It is the mark of a troubled industry that the advertising business is suddenly tooling itself up with new think-tanks and foundations as it prepares to battle for survival.
News flash: press ads really work
Monday, 19 October 2009
It's an unlikely champion of the press: ayellow-silhouetted furtive figure, donning the archetypal Trilby hat of a Fleet Street hack and throwing open his reporter’s raincoat to flash a promise: “Expose yourself?to 23 million people tomorrow.”
Claire Beale On Advertising: How Pepsico rescued itself from a tech disaster
Monday, 19 October 2009
It’s not often that you hear one of the world’s biggest brands saying sorry, but Pepsico was forced to apologise last week for an illjudged social media campaign that has kicked up one of the biggest advertising storms of the year and highlighted the perils of social media engagement.
OFT targets 'misleading' online retail advertising
Friday, 16 October 2009
The Office of Fair Trade (OFT) is set to investigate potentially dodgy advertising practices by retailers, especially over the internet, saying companies could face enforcement action if they breach consumer law.
Most popular
Read
1 What were they thinking? Football fashion disasters
2 The Ten Best Seduction Techniques
4 Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget
6 The worst divers in football
7 Manchester United top 25 best supported clubs in Europe
8 German keeper Enke dies after being hit by express train
9 US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
10 Plagiarism is no laughing matter for comedians
11 Pound under new attack as agency says it will cut UK's credit rating
12 Johann Hari: Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs'
13 'DC sniper' loses last hope of reprieve
Emailed
1 Seattle's teenage Jesse James
2 Fertility crisis in Japan: let the state find you a mate
3 EIB sets up £700m fund to help onshore wind farms
4 Pound under new attack as agency says it will cut UK's credit rating
5 Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget
6 Anthony Browne: Why we should grant illegal immigrants an amnesty
7 Imperial Tobacco names Alison Cooper as CEO designate
8 The hottest new writing degrees are in specialist non-fiction
9 Dire England self-destruct and slip back to the depths
10 Luella Bartley is latest fashion victim of recession
11 Johnny Vegas: Imitation is flattery? Try telling that to the Fraud Squad
12 RSS feeds
13 Pandora: Former Sun editor to pen parable of booze
Commented
1'Big Brother' database cancelled by ministers
2Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear
3Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons
4Dominic Lawson: The only options are to double up in Afghanistan or leave
5Demands grow for 'weapon dogs' to be brought to heel
6Last Night's Television - Collision, ITV1; The Execution of Gary Glitter, Channel 4
7Dead soldier's mother confronts PM over lack of equipment
8Leading article: A vicious and unfair personal attack

