115 million viewers. $3 million for 30 seconds of airtime. $210 million total advertising spend. Forget the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers slugging it out for the Vince Lombardi trophy, the real game was being played in the Super Bowl’s commercial breaks.
Super Bowl XLV, like its predecessors, produced some very well received
This month Apple starts to roll out its iAd mobile ad network in Europe. The service will go live in the UK first, with launches in France and Germany early next year and other countries throughout 2011. European launch partners will include Renault, Nespresso, Citi and Evian. iAd will offer advertising inside
Ordinary Joes, footballers and even members of the clergy have all got themselves in hot water when making comments on Social Media sites. Twitter is on course to have 200 million users by the end of 2010. There are currently over 50 million tweets of 140 characters or less each day. However, as multinational corporations,
Completely free-range pork? Pigs might fly, according to the ASA. Waitrose is the only major supermarket never to have its advertising fall foul of the Advertising Codes until its recent high-profile celebrity-endorsed advertising campaign which has been dealt a rather embarrassing blow. The £10m campaign fronted by Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal, aims
On September 14, the European Court of Justice rejected an appeal by Danish toy company Lego against a ruling by the Court of First Instance in 2008. Lego had previously sought to register its iconic 3-D studded brick as a trade mark. The 3-D studded brick featured prominently in Santander’s UK rebranding television campaign which
A double page comparative ad which Asda ran in January 2010 was found to be ambiguous and misleading by the ASA in a recent adjudication since it breached clauses 7.1 and 7.2 (Truthfulness), 18.1 and 18.3 (Comparisons with identified competitors and or their products) and 19.1 (Other Comparisons) of the CAP Code. The ad featured