LONDON - Mike Orlov has unexpectedly quit his job as advertising sales director of the Evening Standard, just weeks after the departure of former managing director Sally de la Bedoyere.
LONDON – Almost 18 months after Grey Worldwide London parted company with Martin Smith, the agency has concluded its search for a chief executive with the appointment of TBWA\London chief executive Garry Lace.
PARIS - French advertising group Havas is to replace Andersen as its auditor with Ernst & Young from the beginning of 2003, following an in-depth review.
LONDON - BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm, signed programme licensing and co-production deals worth £5m at this year's Mipcom TV festival in Cannes.
LONDON - OMD Europe, the Omnicom Group-owned media group, has been appointed to handle Sony's $500m (£320m) pan-European media buying account after a three-way pitch.
LONDON - Persil has a touch of the 'Blue Peter' about it in its latest television advertising campaign, which uses animation in the style of children's classroom drawings to encourage parents to get creative with their kids.
NEW YORK - US satellite operator EchoStar is understood to be revising its takeover plans of rival DirecTV in an 11th-hour attempt to get approval for the $18bn (£11bn) deal from communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission.
SAN FRANCISCO – The once market-leading new-economy magazine Red Herring has been sold off as part of a restructuring deal.
LONDON - While advertising industry executives remain glum about a recovery in the next two years, long-term forecasts claim that adspend could be up by as much as 45% in the next decade.
I've been trying to work out exactly when it happened. As, apart from music, I've pretty much confirmed that -- give or take, my tastes have frozen in time in the late 1990s, writes Gordon MacMillan .
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