Something for the Weekend: a dose of nostalgia

If you're hankering after a trip down memory lane then let the Flight of the Conchords funk you up with an ode to the ladies 70s roller disco style. Check out the video clip below and turn up the music. Because the Barber cares about your musical needs... ...

Mobile delivers 60% of leads in Peugeot campaign

Peugeot and Ad.IQ have released initial campaign results for the Australian launch of the Peugeot 308 with data confirming that placing mobile at the heart of go-to-market strategy can deliver immediate accountable results that can more than compete with online. People sceptical of the potential of mobile marketing ...

Australia’s classifieds market continues the switch to online from print

Revenues for Australia’s online classified advertising market reached $396 million in 2007, an increase of 30 percent over the previous calendar year according to new research released by global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. The study predicts online classifieds revenues will rise to $512 million ...

World Youth Day 2008 encourages Sydneysiders to have the time of their Eternal Lives

[Watch the World Youth Day 2008 TVC at the bottom of this story] World Youth Day 2008 organisers are encouraging Sydneysiders to take part in the July event through an advertising campaign featuring the tagline: "World Youth Day - The time of your eternal life". The integrated campaign is aimed at the Sydney market ...

ACP circulation figures as of March 2008 also up

ACP has seen audited growth across many of its publications, especially in the Women's Lifestyle weekly and Men's & Specialist weekly. OK! magazine recorded a significant circulation increase of 13.4 percent yoy, with an additional 16,768 copies sold over the past year. To download a pdf copy of the most recent ...

Dash PR wins new business: Sticky Tickets

It looks like all the hard work Christine Kardashian has been putting in since the launch of her agency Dash Public Relations is paying off. The Newshound reported on Kardashian's win of the ASUS PR account on May 9th, and now an article on the Sydney Morning Herald's website has prompted Matt Freedman, CEO of Sticky ...

AdMob releases mobile metrics for April

AdMob Mobile Metrics is a new report with market level data, which mobile industry professionals and publishers alike might find interesting. They store and analyze the data from every ad request, impression, and click and use this to optimise ad matching. Every day, they see ad requests from more than 160 countries ...

ACP readership rises across titles reports Roy Morgan research

ACP Magazines has delivered another significant readership increase, with the group's market share rising to 46.7 percent, according to the latest Roy Morgan Readership figures (Roy Morgan Single Source, April 2007 – March 2008). And this growth is mirrored in the circulation figures to be released at midnight tonight. The ...

inthemix.tv launched with Pump water

inthemix, a Sound Alliance company, today announced the launch of "inthemix.tv powered by Pump", a fortnightly dance music TV show in high quality Flash8 video. The episodes are delivered in multiple formats across many platforms including PC, Mac, full screen TV, ipod and mobile phone. Each episode of inthemix.com.au features an in depth interview with local and touring DJs like The Presets and Tiesto plus exclusive event footage and vox-pops. Episodes can be viewed and downloaded from www.inthemix.com.au, can be embedded in personal blogs, Facebook pages or forum posts, and can be posted to social bookmarking sites such as delicious, digg, stumbled upon, and others. "Sound Alliance has built a stable of online communities that resonate with their target audience by remaining credible, relevant and focusing on quality content. inthemix.tv’s use of latest technologies deliver an ever more immersive and involving experience for the Australian dance music community," said Sound Alliance managing director Neil Ackland.

Who's who in the Zoo: Jackson joins Solterbeck

Marie Jackson, managing director of M&C Saatchi Sydney for the last three years, is to become managing director of Solterbeck, Australia’s leading company in the rapidly-growing field of performance improvement. Jackson has 20 years of agency senior management experience, as a director of Ogilvy & Mather, ...

Fairfax Digital and Melbourne IT launch service providing marketing services to SMEs

Fairfax Digital and Melbourne IT today announced a new joint venture called Advantate, designed to give the extensive SME market in Australia and New Zealand simple, cost-effective access to search engine marketing services. The service is expected in Australia in May 2008. According to IAB Australia’s Online Advertising ...

Ad combats hunger in Israel

This is just a very short post with a video (see lower down on the page). Advertising often cops a beating for encouraging people to consume rather than to consider some of the larger questions in our world, but this video, part of an integrated campaign by the Israeli Food Bank, shows just how powerful a simple ...

Robot meets Alien landing new business

Robot Meets Alien seem to have taken a leaf out of Seth Godin's naming book, opting for a brand identity that definitely stands out amongst a sea of initials. And it looks like they're doing something right, as they've secured some new business since launching last August: Samsung for camcorders and mp3 players ...

Daemon Group takes home two international creative awards

Surpassing thousands of submissions from twenty-five countries, Daemon Group placed among the very best, collecting both a silver and bronze award at the 2008 Summit Creative Awards. Known for innovation, the Daemon Group’s proactive and creative approach saw engaging campaigns for Yell and JobX come to life with ...

Blogs for Breakfast: 14th May

Brand Tags site gets to the point There’s already been heaps written about this new site from Noah Brier, so in a nutshell: You’re shown a logo and then asked to supply one word that sums up that brand. These words are then displayed as tags, so you can see the words that people have associated with that brand. So ...

Blueprint shares point to strength of direct marketing channel

Blueprint Management Group, an Australian outsourced direct marketing services company, has announced that it has sold a substantial shareholding to ANZ’s private equity arm, in a move that some in the industry are seeing as indicative of the strength of the direct marketing channel. The deal is one of the largest ...

'Pulse' wins Best Music Video Award at SoundKilda 2008

Cherub Pictures' director Justin Kurzel took out the Best Music Video Award for the clip Pulse by The Mess Hall as well as the Music Video Audience Choice Award for Keep Walking by The Mess Hall at this year’s St Kilda Film Festival. Both music videos were produced by Pip Smart. You can see the video for Pulse below ”To ...

Silver Pencil for Whybin\TBWA\TEQUILA\

Digital agency Whybin\TBWA\TEQUILA\ has taken home Australia’s only Silver Pencil Award at The One Show Interactive Awards held in New York on Friday 9th May.  Whybin\TBWA\TEQUILA\ was awarded the Pencil for its work on Newline Cinema’s Be Kind Rewind movie website. The website was a play on the movie's theme ...

Aussie Cannes Young Lions awards announced by News Limited

When the Newshound reported on the NZ Cannes Young Lions a few days ago, he forgot to mention that there was also some stellar Aussie talent on the other side of the Tasman. News Limited announced the Australian Young Lions finalists for the Cannes Lions 2008 International Advertising Festival to be held in June. ...

Celeb influence on the decline

As the recent conspiracy theories surrounding Abercrombie & Fitch's hijacking of Barack Obama's concession speech continue to do the rounds on the internet (see ...

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