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Media Broth: Yum-yum
May 15, 2013 · Comments Off

YOU get the feeling they have probably been praying for this for years, the sub-editors...

Mark Gorman: I admire the principled stand being taken on procurement
May 13, 2013 · Comments Off

“Houston. We have a problem.” Okay, that was not quite what was uttered by Apollo...

Large screen outdoor advertising? Study supports assumption they work
May 10, 2013 · Comments Off

THE assumption that outdoor moving adverts – similar to the large TV screen-style advertising panel...

My Media Day: Steven Bonner, freelance designer, illustrator and lettering artist
May 10, 2013 · Comments Off

STEVEN Bonner is a freelance designer, illustrator and lettering artist who works from his home...

Creative head’s crime novel available for free online until Sunday
May 8, 2013 · Comments Off

THE director of an organisation involved in skills training among Scotland’s creative industries has turned...

Training target set by new Scotland chair of advertising body
May 7, 2013 · Comments Off

TRAINING – particularly in-house, among agencies, and of people newly starting in the profession –...

Breast cancer awareness advert wins The Leith Agency major creative prize
May 3, 2013 · Comments Off

AN advertising campaign featuring the comedienne, Elaine C Smith, to raise awareness about breast cancer,...

Courtnay McLeod: Media training? As hard as we make it
April 15, 2013 · Comments Off

IT had the potential to feel like a wake, with a death certificate citing numerous...

DC Thomson launches new advertising inserts service
April 12, 2013 · Comments Off

A NEW advertising inserts service is being launched by the Dundee-based newspapers, comics and magazines...

Wanted: Creative, digital, development and editorial personnel
April 9, 2013 · Comments Off

THE content marketing agency, Connect Communications, is seeking to fill several vacancies, as it announces...

My Media Day: Sam Goldblatt, comms assistant, exec producer and author
April 9, 2013 · Comments Off

SAM Goldblatt works full-time as a communications assistant at the Festival and King’s Theatres Edinburgh. But...

Scott Douglas: When is an advertorial not an advertorial? When it’s sponsored content
April 7, 2013 · Comments Off

GOTTA love this change stuff, eh? We’re no longer writers or story-tellers, we’re now content...

Capital challenge issued to secure £1,000 worth of free advertising
April 5, 2013 · Comments Off

THE chance to win £1,000 worth of free advertising is being issued to small businesses...

Keith Forbes: Good design is rarely about ‘quick ideas’
April 5, 2013 · Comments Off

DON Draper reclines on his soft pad office chair, knocks back a large Canadian Club...

Gorman and Mill join forces to offer blogging service
April 1, 2013 · Comments Off

TWO of the best-known communications consultants have joined forces, to write blogs for businesses. Planet...

IRN-BRU ads reportedly to be screened south of the border
March 22, 2013 · Comments Off

THE company behind the soft drink, IRN-BRU, is reportedly planning to launch a television campaign...

Mark Gorman: Ominous signs from the Scottish Government marketing framework
March 19, 2013 · Comments Off

IF reports are true, then some of the best-known names in Scottish marketing – such...

Scots shortbread brand to sponsor STV broadcasts of Loose Women
March 11, 2013 · Comments Off

BROADCASTS in the STV geography of the ITV lunchtime chat show, Loose Women, are to...

Daily Record media planning and buying contract to remain with Media Vision
February 25, 2013 · Comments Off

THE media (aka advertising space) planning and buying contract for the Daily Record and its...