Sony Ericsson Australia sponsor MySpace Pix platform

MySpace.com today have announced Sony Ericsson Australia as the principal sponsor of the MySpace Pix platform. The dedicated photo sharing channel launched in May this year, and to date has been ‘friended’ by 34,332 MySpace users. The Newshound spent Monday and Tuesday at the Advertising and Marketing Summit in ...

DDB Sydney launches channel planning division DDB Touch

DDB Sydney has officially launched DDB Touch, a channel planning division, which will work closely with clients to effectively plan and execute the most creative brand experiences for Australian consumers. DDB Touch will offer a holistic communication strategic resource at the DDB Group in Sydney, allowing clients ...

ABT helps Optus connect with its audience

It's happening, slowly but surely. Advertisers in Australia are starting to recognise and embrace alternatives to the 30-second TVC. Brand experience agency ABT has completed and launched a high-tech/high-touch, immersive environment to help Optus celebrate its sponsorship of Cirque du Soleil's 'Dralion' tour, ...

Tooheys New and Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney launch The Beer Relay campaign

Tooheys New has launched the second instalment in its new campaign, For the Love of Great Beer Ideas. Following on from the launch TVC, which centred on the spirit of the innovative Tooheys brothers, the second phase announces the chosen beer idea – the Beer Relay. Based on the premise that the coldest beer on ...

Virgin mobile embraces UGC for its latest campaign

Virgin Mobile Australia is literally handing over the directorial reigns with the latest phase of its  'All You Can Eat' campaign, allowing customers to visit whathappensnext.com.au and storyboard their own ending for the 'All You Can Eat' TV adverts. Virgin Mobile will bring the winning entry to life, and ...

theBrandshop spearheads new Grazia launch with integrated campaign

It's a competitive environment, women's lifestyle and fashion magazine publishing, so the launch of Grazia magazine recently has marketers watching closely for how the new masthead will fare and how the launch campaign will position the publication. The new campaign for the Grazia launch from theBrandshop consists ...

Sanitarium Weet-Bix marketing revives Sheffield Shield

Iconic Australian cricket competition, the Sheffield Shield, will make its return to the Australian cricketing calendar this October after a 10 year absence, following the signing of a new marketing partnership between Sanitarium Weet-Bix and Cricket Australia. The five-year partnership is an extension of Weet-Bix’s ...

PDM and Planet Ark become environmental media partners

Australian out of home digital media provider PDM has announced the launch of a pro-bono environmental media partnership with not-for-profit organisation, Planet Ark. PDM will place a series of Planet Ark branded, purpose-built environmental messages and Planet Ark campaign promotions on its entire digital signage ...

Aussie students beat out the competition in global Google challenge

Australian universities were top of the class in Google's inaugural global University Online Marketing Challenge. A student team from The University of Western Australia was named the global winner while a team from University of New South Wales (AGSM) was named APAC regional winner today. The Google Online Marketing ...

Who's who in the Zoo: Lowe appoint new creative team

Sydney-based advertising agency Lowe have announced the further strengthening of its creative department with the appointment of a new creative team, Nathan Lennon and Dave Gibson. Lennon and Gibson, copywriter and art director respectively, recently returned from London where they worked at various leading agencies, ...

Red Bull take charge of sales and distribution in Australia

Following five successful years in partnership with Cadbury Schweppes, Red Bull Australia Pty Ltd has announced that it will take over sales and distribution for Red Bull Energy Drink from January 2009. Cadbury Schweppes will continue to distribute Red Bull until 31st December, 2008. Success for the energy drink ...

Over the hump ...

Whoever decided that it was a good idea to pack humans into office conditions that battery hens have come to expect needs their head examined. Every day millions of Australians trudge resentfully to these strip-lit, nylon-carpeted gulags, where they are bombarded by requests from equally uninspired worker drones, ...

Google dominates Australian search in June 2008

Hitwise announced today that Google search properties (Google.com and Google.com.au) accounted for 87.81 percent of all Australian searches in the four weeks ending 28 June, 2008.  This represents a 11.79 percent increase compared to 30 June 2007. MSN Search and Yahoo! Search properties each received 6.72 ...

Sybase teams up with AFP for global news on your mobile

Marketers hungry to take advantage of the growing advertising dollars being spent on the mobile platform can now consider reaching their target audience alongside the breaking news content of global news provider Agence France-Presse (AFP). Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), announced it has ...

Fairfax Digital forge SEM software deal with e-Channel

e-Channel, a premium Australian search engine marketing (SEM) company has announced an agreement with Fairfax Digital to supply its DynamicCreative™ software to manage search engine marketing campaigns across the publisher's classifieds websites – Domain, Drive and MyCareer. The contract follows an extensive trial ...

Mobile marketing text message style by Broadcaster Media

Australian mobile marketing company Broadcaster Media is proving to be a hit in the U.S., with popular magazine Salon City using their latest mobile marketing tool to interact with readers. Salon City, a beauty, fashion and lifestyle magazine with a Hollywood spin, is using Broadcaster Media’s Smarts platform for ...

Online advertising now even more engaging for advertisers says MySpace

Delivering a 99 percent increase on the measurable impact of traditional banner advertising on Fox Interactive Media sites, MySpace.com and IGN.com rich media advertising has proved its worth for marketers to not only get the clicks but to truly engage consumers in the online environment. Recent Australian advertisers ...

DDB Sydney invites top AWARD graduates to LaunchPad

DDB Sydney will offer this year’s top News Limited AWARD School students a three-month placement in the LaunchPad program. The 2008 AWARD School graduation party took place on Wednesday 16 July and for the second year running, four students from the Top ten automatically received a placement in the Launchpad program.   ...

Precinct acquires design consultancy Ross Barr & Associates

Precinct, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Photon Group, within its specialised communications division, has acquired corporate design consultancy Ross Barr & Associates. Precinct is one of Australia’s premier professional services design consultancy. Their vision is to build a compelling creative destination for ...

Getty Images and Flickr announce exclusive partnership

Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr, a division of Yahoo! Inc. and one of the world’s largest photo sharing communities, recently announced a new collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty ...

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