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Outdoor Channel Increases Footprint in the Lone Star State
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Temecula : Outdoor Channel, America's Leader in Outdoor TV, today announced the launch of the network on Charter systems in Texas, effective immediately. Outdoor Channel will be available in the Fort Worth, Park Cities, Denton, Duncanville, Rockwall and Spring, Texas systems, giving Charter subscribers access to the sights, sounds and...
Beam Global Spirits and Wine Taps Euro RSCG Chicago as Creative Agency
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Chicago : Beam Global Spirits and Wine has named Euro RSCG Chicago its creative agency of record for Pucker Vodka, a new product entry in the flavored vodka category. This news comes on the heels of recent momentum at the Chicago agency that includes wins from Groupon, Sears and Sonic, to name a few.
Euro RSCG Chicago, which also works on...
Google Android Captures #1 Position in Smartphone Market
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Reston : comScore, Inc. has released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending January 2011.
The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.9 percent market...
Jonathan Aeberhard Promoted to Managing Partner Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia
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Kuala Lumpur : Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia today announced the appointment of Jonathan Aeberhard, Regional Business Director running Coca-Cola and Diageo in Asia Pacific, to the position of Managing Partner of Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia with immediate effect.
Jonathan will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Maxis Berhad account...
The New York Times Magazine to Unveil Redesign
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New York : The New York Times Magazine will debut its redesign on Sunday, March 6, with an issue featuring new content and a new look under the direction of editor Hugo Lindgren. A preview of the newly designed magazine is available online at NYTimes.com/Magazine.
As previously announced, Times executive editor Bill Keller will write a regular...
Facebook to Top Yahoo! in US Display Market, As Google Looms
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New York :Facebook will pass Yahoo! as the leader in the US online display advertising market this year, according to new estimates by eMarketer.
The social network's share of the $10.1 billion US display ad market will grow to 21.6% of overall revenues in 2011, up from a 13.6% share in 2010 and a 7.3% share in 2009.
Display revenues...
Tom Eslinger to Join Bees Awards 2011 Jury
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London – The Bees Awards have revealed their esteemed 2011 jury panel members, including Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide's Digital Creative Director, Tom Eslinger. The event will once again award winners in over 23 specialized categories, including 8 new categories in the fast paced social media marketing world. The...
Our values are those of US revolution: Assange
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London : Julian Assange has compared the values of WikiLeaks to those of the founding fathers of the US and asserted that the whistleblowing website does not have a political agenda, a media report said Monday.
The WikiLeaks founder, who enraged the US by obtaining a cache of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and slowly releasing the...
BlackBerry to filter porn content
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Toronto: For the first time, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has agreed to filter pornographic content on its smart phones bowing to pressure from Indonesia.
The decision follows after the world's biggest Muslim nation of 237 million people warned RIM that it shut down BlackBerry services and revoke its licence. Representatives...
MEC North America Hires Top Managing Partner
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MEC North America, a leading media agency has announced the appointment of Carol Lansen as Managing Partner, Account Director. In this newly created position, Lansen will be based in Los Angeles, CA and report directly to Lee Doyle, Chief Executive Officer of MEC North America. She will be responsible for the Activision account.
Doyle commented,...