Two Swiss agencies made it to the finalists of the Cresta Awards this year: Euro RSCG and Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett. On the film shortlist is Euro RSCG with the roller coaster spot for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. SFLB is nominated in the "Integrated Campaigns" category with its "FC Münchwilen" campaign for Helvepharm. In total, the jury has shortlisted 283 entries from 30 countries. The award ceremony will take place on October 27, 2008 and can be followed at.

 New arrival at .ch: Andrej Abplanalp is joining the free newspaper on October 1, 2008. He will be a member of the editorial management and pagemaker for the regional editions. "This position has been newly created to relieve the main edition's pagemaker and to optimize the coordination and coaching of the field offices," .ch Editor-in-Chief Rolf Leeb told Werbewoche. Abplanalp is currently deputy editorial director of Gastrojournal. He has been in charge of final production there since 2005. Before that, the 38-year-old had worked for 20 Minuten, Telebärn and Radio Extrabern.
In addition to Leeb and Abplanalp, the editorial management of .ch will in future comprise Marcel Siegenthaler (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), Mona Fahmy (Chief Reporter), Daniel Arnet (Head of Style), Benjamin Bögli (Head of Production), Kevin Lancashire (Head of Online) and Andre Maschek (Head of Sports).