As 2008 speeds toward the festive season, some of the upper echelons are making some hard-hitting changes. Online social networking hub Bebo and super brand consultant Landor have added new talent to their executive stables. Kelly Brett is joining Bebo after a year working on KateModern – an online reality show ...
Woolworths has today unveiled its new look as part of an Australia-wide rebrand, which is being rolled out across its 780 supermarket stores. In May's issue of Marketing, Scotland wrote a long feature all about the need for the major players to bring a more entertaining and engaging experience to the Australian ...
PRIMPED.com.au is a new online publishing asset of the Hannan family's Independent Digital Media (IDM), covering beauty products, advice, news and trends, and not crossing into the cluttered online territory of women’s general interest. PRIMPED.com.au claims to be the first site to use interactive video beauty ...
Brandchannel, a major online resource about branding, today revealed the winners of its fourth annual brandcameo Product Placement Awards. "Resisting economic slowdown and government opposition, the integration of advertising into different forms of entertainment continues to grow. For 2007, we tracked more brands ...
You spend months planning a fully integrated campaign, involving multiple channel strategies, a comprehensive promotional push, a blogger outreach intiative to seed your product in the blogosphere and late night after late night trying to encapsulate the brand identity in multiple different agency executions that ...
7-Eleven, one of Australia’s largest convenience store chains, has begun a revamp of their marketing partners following a review of their business requirements. Starcom, 7-Eleven’s media business partner since April 2005 has been replaced by Naked Communications and OMD. This combined team will be responsible ...
Leading Australian Retail Brand Health (RBH) specialist, The Marketing Department (TMD) has joined with US based global retail marketing services giant Crossmark to form Crossmark Asia Pacific. The partnership creates Australasia’s largest retail marketing service company with a turnover of $45million, 2,000 ...
Webjet and eBay have combined to launch a new website, lotsofhotels.com.au, a new site that features lots and lots of hotels from not just Australia, but around the world. For marketers looking to reach a cashed-up audience before they leave for their destinations, the new site will offer a global advertising ...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects not only those diagnosed with the disease but also family, friends and the broader community. MS Australia’s 30-second television advertisement, which launches today, is a creative reflection of this element of MS. “MS is a devastating disease that not only presents an array of symptoms ...
A new brand campaign created by Belgiovane Williams Mackay (BWM) Melbourne is helping to plot a new course for client Simplot Australia brand Birds Eye. The Captain has been synonymous with Birds Eye for years, but the new campaign looks to reposition the brand as a provider of innovative frozen foods made from fresh, ...
Research International (RI), a world leader in custom market research, has appointed Nicole Marquardt as a client service director in its Melbourne office. Marquardt is now managing key client accounts and working to generate new business for the company. "We are delighted that Nicole is joining Research International. ...
The Commercial Radio Market Profiles have been released to stations and advertisers nationwide and will provide an invaluable reference tool for advertising on radio. There are over 100 detailed market profiles of regional and metropolitan commercial radio areas. Collated every five years, the Commercial Radio ...
In July 2007, Optus launched Australia’s first Home Phone and Broadband Cap bundle – Optus Fusion. ...
One of Australia’s leading independent comparison shopping sites, GetPrice.com.au, today announced the launch of its new website, introducing a range of tools to personalise the user's online shopping experience. GetPrice.com.au managing director, Chris Hitchen, says the new website will extend the online shopping ...
Optimo, one of Australia’s leading graphic design agencies has recently won Gold and Silver at the prestigious 2008 Australian Packaging Awards for their innovative ‘4-Fresh’ designs for KR Castlemaine. Optimo’s awards came in two categories, the Amcor Consumer Packaging Innovation Award, which recognises the variety ...
There's been quite a bit of discussion this year about the the traditionally dominant TV industry losing some of its advertising spend in favour of other channels that continue to grow, such as outdoor, experiential and, of course, online. I was curious to find out what Australia's marketing community thought about ...
You’ll never look at instant noodles in the same way again. Launching a bold new integrated marketing campaign, Fantastic Noodles is giving cooking noodles an ‘extreme makeover’. Involving a fictitious TV show, Pimp My Kettle, the company will have professional ‘kettle pimpers’ turn kettles from hell, into working ...
Global research company TNS has released a report detailing a collection of insights into China's consumers in the year of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Game. Jim Sailor, managing director, TNS China, says of the report, "In 2007 we surveyed more than one million Chinese consumers in more than 300 cities, communicating ...
A new report by GroupM, the parent company of WPP's media agencies, shows above the line and digital ad spend in China is expected to grow by 40 percent over the next two years, according to Brand Republic. The ''This Year, Next Year: China' report has been compiled using data supplied by GroupM parent WPP's constituent ...
This week we have a couple of great clips to refresh you in the run-up to the weekend. First up is a great example of a cause-related marketing campaign being run by Haagen-Dazs. Increasingly, cause-related marketing is becoming a more and more attractive way for comapnies to associate themselves with positive social ...