Investors with an eye on the distant horizon were pleased to see Yahoo! announce a string of advertising-related deals: It bought ad networks Blue Lithium and Right Media, and it struck a new advertising arrangement with social networking company Bebo.
And AOL has sought to further the success of Advertising.com by buying a string of online advertising companies.
[C6.] Wendy's Changes Ad Agencies Bates USA, already reeling from a string of defections of advertising clients, lost its second biggest account when Wendy's shifted its United States account to the McCann-Erickson World Group.
Glamour magazine, long the reliable cash cow for Condé Nast, has replaced its publisher after a string of recently disappointing advertising results.
Advertising on AOL's main portal has declined recently, and the company has been through a string of acquisitions of online advertising companies that have yet to be successfully integrated into AOL.
The ASA previously upheld a string of complaints about Groupon's advertising and has voiced concerns about its failure to conduct promotions fairly and provide evidence that offers are available, as well as concerns over exaggerations of savings claims.
"I was a little Southern, ignorant white female and would have been one forever," Lauren Hutton once told me, had modeling not propelled the Carolina tomboy from her simple beginnings and onto a string of Vogue covers and lucrative advertising campaigns.
She was tickled but unsure what that meant, so she pursued a string of typical English-major jobs: teaching, advertising, publishing.
The UK advertising regulator received a string of complaints about the ad, which led Australian tourism minister Fran Bailey to accuse the British of lacking a sense of humour.
Quickly, Mr. Ross fired a string of top lieutenants, started experimenting with unconventional advertising campaigns and went against industry norms for a DVD release ("Alice in Wonderland" discs arrived in stores about a month earlier than was typical).
Since becoming boss of Havas Advertising in 1986 he has expanded the group from relative obscurity in France, via a string of deals, into the world's fifth-largest advertising, marketing and media conglomerate.Along with an openness that is unusual in a top manager, he possesses another useful managerial quality: luck.
