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NABS, a support organisation for people working in the UK advertising industry, is promoting its third annual Music Quiz with a series of print advertisement poking fun at the British advertising industry. Held this year on Wednesday 2nd December, the fundraising event has become a popular battleground between creative teams from London advertising agencies. DDB London has prepared six print advertisements (print, poster, outdoor) with cheeky messages for Fallon London, CHI, DLKW, Dare and Mother London, along with their own account team.

Sorry Fallon, we’ve decided not to include a folk round this year.

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Tags to other posts: CHI & Partners, Dare, DDB, DDB London, DLKW, Fallon, Mother London, NABS

Posted under Inspiration, Print Press Posters Billboards

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Warner Bros Pictures is promoting the launch of the movie Sherlock Holmes with a two-player on-line experience, 221B, online at www.221B.sh. The movie, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, will be released in the UK on Boxing Day, 26th December 2009.

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Posted under Inspiration, Interactive

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Nokia is releasing the Nokia N900, a mobile phone running on the Maemo platform, after months of testing, tweaking and hard work. We’re given a hint of the transition from human ideas to an actual phone with “Focus Group”, a television commercial presented in the form of a surveillance camera film.

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Posted under Inspiration, TV Ads Cinema and Online Videos

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Remembrance Day, celebrated in the UK on November 11, marks the armistice signed at 11 am, 11 November, 1918, (the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month) to end World War I. Also known as as Poppy Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day, the public holiday is associated with Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. Here’s a selection of print advertisements from 2007 and 2008 Poppy Appeal campaigns, featuring the Poppy Man. Click on the images to enlarge.

Remember 180,000 Ex Service People Without Visitors.

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To mark Remembrance Day in the UK a group of stars has recorded a tribute song, “We Will Remember Them”, raising funds for the Armed Forces charities, including the Royal British Legion. Singers on the track, and music video featured below, include Robin Gibb, Michael Bolton, Hayley Westenra and Liz McClarnon, Paul Rodgers, Mica Paris, and Robin Gibb.

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Posted under Inspiration, Music Videos

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Weetabix, the whole grain wheat breakfast cereal from the UK, is presented as the food of champions in “Steeplechase”, a humorous TV advert featuring a talking horse and a mighty fast jockey.

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Tags to other posts: Rattling Stick, Ringan Ledwidge, The Mill, WCRS, Weetabix, Work Post

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Guinness has launched a new advertising campaign, “World – Bring It To Life”, inviting members of the public to bringittolife.tv where they can use Google Earth to create their patch of the Guinness online world, from November 28.

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Kleenex, the Kimberley Clark range of tissues, is emerging in a fresh television advertising campaign directed by British celebrity photographer Rankin.

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Tags to other posts: HSI, JWT, JWT London, Kleenex, Mindshare, Nice Biscuits, Rankin, Rankin and Chris, Whitehouse Post

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