The Chip Shop Awards is launching a brand new award this year to celebrate 10 years of the boundary pushing creative competition – the Crinkly Chips.
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This week’s Chip Shop Awards ‘Ad of the Week’ honour goes to a ‘Best Public Awareness’ entry for the London Underground.
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Empty13, the marketing communications conversation being held around what brands and agencies will communicate during the relatively quiet year ahead, will hold its first event of the year, with a keynote presentation by Google UK & Ireland... Read more
With HMV back in the news this week following its Twitter hijack it seems only fitting that an ad for the ailing retailer has been voted this week’s Chip Shop Awards ‘Ad of the Week’.
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Sky is to offer Premier League football content to non-subscribers for the first time via its internet TV service Now TV.
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SodaStream International may not get the spot it wanted played on the Super Bowl - but it's getting miles of publicity by showing the banned spot rejected by CBS (see above).
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United States - 31/01/2013
Dave Waters, founder of communications agency Watermill London, has been appointed the role of chairman for The Drum’s annual Roses Creative Awards.
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At the inaugural Innovation Forum taking place next month, UK entrepreneurs will meet US tech giants, Hollywood power brokers and leading venture capitalists in an attempt to boost trade between America and the UK.
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A spoof Kleenex ad featuring Team GB’s Olympic athletes has been voted this week’s Chip Shop Awards ‘Ad of the Week’.
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Sainsbury’s is to give away seven tonnes of lesser known British fish, including lemon sole, mussels, Cornish sardines, coley fillets and loch trout fillets, in a bid to encourage customers to eat alternative species.
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Gumtree head of marketing Hamish Stone, head of communications for Butlins Jae Hopkins, and Alison Couper global communications director at Expedia/Hotels.com, have been added to the judging panel of The Drum Marketing Awards 2013.
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Live music company Live Nation is reported to be in talks to host gigs at East London’s Olympic stadium from summer 2013.
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Creative communications agency Initials Marketing has hired Sam Brownfield (pictured) as its first digital director and bolstered its experiential team with three further hires.
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In celebration of its 125th anniversary Dunlop Motorsport has assembled a collection of the most iconic motorsport imagery and launched a special exhibit in its home city of Birmingham in a bid to champion the motorsport industry and raise money... Read more
West Midlands - 11/12/2012
Creative Scotland’s chief executive Andrew Dixon is to stand down in order for the organisation to undertake a “change of direction".
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Creative WRG Group has acquired Hong Kong events company Serious Events in a deal, reportedly valued at £1m, as it continues its international expansion.
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International - 26/11/2012
The Recommended Agency Register (RAR) Top 100 list for 2012 has been announced, with WRG Creative Communications coming out top of the pile.
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The UK Event Awards 2012 winners have been revealed with Euro RSCG People taking the Grand Prix for its work with Ford and the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 organisers receiving a special award.
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