Are cell phones, grid the next cigarettes? Nov 18, 2009
Consider these startling recent findings: Young people who start using cell phones before they turn 20 years of age could have a fivefold increase in brain cancer risk and could exhibit symptoms usually associated with aging - dementia and Alzheimer's disease - by the age of 30, according to Canadian researcher Magda Havas. As much as a third of the total population - 100 million people - may suffer from "electrical hypersensitivity," enduring moderate to severe health consequences from EMF... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Digital Media Wire 'Goes West'; Expands Annual Digital Media Conference to San Francisco Oct 21, 2009
Rob Griffin, SVP, Media Contacts, Havas Digital. Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3 Jay Baage, VP, Content & Bus. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Research and Markets: Toys and Games - Global Outlook Oct 6, 2009
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MPG's Lanzano Named TVB President Sep 19, 2009
Lanzano is currently chief operating officer of media agency, MPG, which is owned by French company Havas, and whose accounts include Reckitt Benckiser, Volvo, Sears, ExxonMobil, and CBS Films. Lanzano's move follows a similar path trodden by former Carat CEO, David Verklin, who left his ad agency to run the joint cable industry initiative Canoe Ventures. (Multichannel News)
Kofi Annan's Open Source TckTckTck Campaign Supported by Over 1 Million People Sep 8, 2009
David Jones, CEO of Havas Worldwide, said: "Kofi Annan's campaign was specially designed to be open-source and collaborative. It is fantastic news that the combined total of TckTckTck actions has now reached over the one million mark and we'll be driving this even wider with the upcoming release of the 'Beds are Burning' cover as a free download on October 1st." Details on the song release will follow in the next several days ... SOURCE Havas Worldwide. (PR Newswire)
Fuze Box Surpasses One Million Registered Users for Fuze Meeting and Fuze Messenger Aug 20, 2009
Owned by French company Havas, with full-service offices in Boston, DC, New York and London and clients around the world, Arnold uses Fuze Meeting extensively for new business pitches, to share and discuss work with clients and to facilitate collaboration with its distributed team. "Arnold's product is ideas, and with travel budgets being cut at many companies, we needed a powerful way to present our ideas visually, from anywhere in the world. Fuze Meeting gives us many of the benefits of an... (PR Newswire)
Media Industry Leader Charlie Rutman Joins Board of Indoor Direct Aug 1, 2009
At the end of 2008, Rutman shifted from serving as CEO of MPG North America, the international media services agency that is part of Havas, to being North American advisor. During his four-year tenure, he was responsible for turning around the major media services organization which had lost more than $1 billion in billings in 2004. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Music Advertising and Brands Establish Keys to Partnership Success Jul 24, 2009
Brought together at MIDEM 2009 as part of the Music Marketing Forum, the 17 experts were drawn from music giants Sony, EMI and AEG, brands Hasbro, O2 and Coca-Cola and advertising agencies Havas Media, Euro RSCG KLP and Mchi. Together, the industry leaders drew up 10 conditions required to ensure success when working together. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Smart Phones, Facebook to Push Mobile Ad Market Jun 30, 2009
David Jones, global chief executive of Havas Worldwide and Euro RSCG Worldwide, said that advertisers needed to be more creative to fully benefit from opportunities offered by mobiles. "If you are interrupted every two minutes by advertising, not many people want that. The industry needs to work out smart and clever ways to engage people on mobiles," he said. (Datamation)
* Web number-crunching is turning advertising upside down Jun 3, 2009
Major advertising holding companies like WPP, the Publicis Groupe, Havas, MDC Partners and the Interpublic Group are starting data practices, hoping to latch onto what is expected to be the fastest-growing category of online advertising in the next five years ... Edward Montes, the managing director for North America at Havas Digital, who oversees its exchange group, says that his data analysts are basically looking for anything that affects performance X any time they find variance in the... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Big Chains Serve 'Shocking' Amounts Of Salt May 13, 2009
"Parents already have enough to worry about with the increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes among children. The restaurant industry should not add to these problems by raising kids blood pressure as well," said Dr. Stephen Havas of Northwestern University. Havas and other hypertension experts have estimated that reducing sodium levels in restaurant and packaged foods by half could prevent at least 150,000 premature deaths per year in the U.S.. (KIRO TV, WA)
Hidden Danger in Restaurant Food May 12, 2009
"Parents already have enough to worry about with the increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes among children. The restaurant industry should not add to these problems by raising kids' blood pressure as well," said Dr. Stephen Havas, an adjunct professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a former vice president for science, quality, and public health of the American Medical Association ... Havas and other hypertension experts have estimated that... (WTVR.com, VA)
New York preps for battle against salt Apr 28, 2009
"When you've got groups ... all saying we need to reduce salt, the evidence is exceedingly strong, you don't do more trials," said Dr. Stephen Havas, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University's medical school and a former American Medical Association vice president. In the meantime, the Food and Drug Administration is considering a request that the government regulate salt content. (MSNBC -- Health)
IAB Canada Launches NEW! Video Access Service For Its Conferences and Events Apr 14, 2009
The service will launch with content from the MIXX Canada Event, which occurred on March 5, 2009, and featured insider insights on Social Media Marketing from Jascha Franklin-Hodge of Blue State Digital -- one of the key architects of Barack Obama's Social Media Marketing juggernaut; recent research on the under-estimated power of Display advertising from Gian Fulgoni, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of comScore Media Metrix; a brand-hijacking study of Doritos' campaign to "Bring Back Slow... (Canada Newswire)
Picture Of Television In Future Is Cloudy Apr 5, 2009
But local TV stations are suffering, said Ed Montes, who heads the North American business for Havas Digital, a provider of digital media and interactive marketing services. The banking and credit crisis has hit financial services and automakers hard. (Investors Business Daily)
Progressive Television and Video Start Ups Featured at Future of Television West in Los Angeles, March 24-25, 2009 Mar 20, 2009
com Lydia Loizides, VP, Product Management, Canoe Ventures LLC Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3 Joy Marcus, US General Manager, Dailymotion Jarvis Mak, SVP, Global Research and Insights Director, Havas Digital Sharon Metz, VP, Vertical Marketing, Macrovision Solutions Corporation Steve Mitgang, CEO, Veoh Networks Edward Montes, EVP, Managing Director N.A., Media Contacts, Havas Digital Tricia Parks, Founder & CEO, Parks Associates Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Sage dips on rumours of job cuts Mar 18, 2009
which posts full-year results tomorrow, closed flat at 76p even after shareholder Vincent Bollor talked again of a possible merger with Havas. Separately, Goldman Sachs cut Aegis from its conviction buy list on concerns its 2009 outlook and dollar-weighted debt would disappoint. (FT.com -- Markets)
RI, Singapore sign maritime boundary agreement Mar 11, 2009
Arief Havas Oegroseno, the Foreign Ministry's director general for international treaties and legal affairs, said recently Jakarta would propose drawing an eastern boundary line from Batam Island that would divide it from Singapore's Changi. Besides the Batam-Changi segment, Indonesia and Singapore will also have to negotiate for a segment between Bintan in Indonesia's Riau Islands and Singapore's Pedra Branca Islet and the waters around it. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
Bollore leaving merger option open on Aegis Mar 4, 2009
Financier Vincent Bollore is keeping options open for a possible merger between France's Havas and Aegis , saying he is "still thinking" about the fate of the two mid-sized advertising companies. Bollore is chairman and top shareholder of Havas, the world's sixth-largest advertising group, as well as the largest shareholder in Aegis. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
* In France, ads aim at the heart, not wallet Feb 22, 2009
Thats because we have always had a very unhealthy relationship to money, said Jacques Seguela, chief creative officer for Havas, the countrys second-biggest advertising agency. To us money implies corruption, and moreover, because we consider ourselves the inventors of freedom, never mind if thats not true, we still consider advertising as a kind of manipulation, Seguela said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ads not merely commercial in France Feb 21, 2009
guela, chief creative officer for Havas, the second-biggest advertising agency in France after Publicis Groupe. He spoke the other day in his sunny office, an all-glass affair with panoramic views of the city. (International Herald Tribune)
