On Tuesday evening, Joiz CEO Alexander Mazzara was presented with a Swiss ICT Award. Joiz won in the category "Newcomer" and "Public". "I am very pleased about this award! We have been working hard on the success of Joiz for almost a year and a half and the Swiss ICT Award is a sign for us that we are on the right track," said Mazzara.

For the first time ever, a company won two awards, according to the statement.
 

Andreas Moll has taken up the position of PR Consultant at PPR Media Relations as of October 1, 2011, according to a press release from the agency. The qualified tourism specialist has spent the last four years working for Kuoni Travel, during which time he completed a further degree in Business Communications at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich. He successfully completed his studies at the end of August 2011 and has now moved straight into the PR industry to put his newly acquired knowledge into practice. The 31-year-old from Zurich replaces Sandra Donat, who took maternity leave at the beginning of October.

In summer 2012, 26-year-old Sebastian Schneider will complete his studies in business administration with a specialization in marketing at the FHS St. Gallen. His affinity for communication and photography earned him an internship at the agency. This serves Schneider as an ideal career start in the field of public relations.
 

The focus of the current fall campaign is a competition on the Facebook fan page of "NZZ Campus". The aim is to further expand the "NZZ Campus" Facebook community, according to a press release. The prize is a four-week language study trip to Hawaii. The winner will be the person who finds the best reasons for their stay in the surfer's paradise and can mobilize the most friends.

The competition is being promoted with online advertising, advertisements, posters, flyers and cinema slides. The fall campaign was designed and implemented by Allink.creative. The sponsor of the language stay is Boa Linga - Sprachaufenthalte weltweit.

Responsible at Allink.creative: Christoph Schlatter (CD), Mike Walder, Sabina Zelnik (project management), Jérémie Blaser (FB app implementation). Responsible at NZZ Campus: Andreas Häuptli (Head of Product Management Magazines), Milena Andretta (Product Management Magazines).

Structural parts made from carbon are indispensable for aerospace, racing and research, the agency writes in a press release. For example, parts for satellites are produced and processed. Carbomill's precision and innovation should be reflected in its new image. In addition to various printed materials, a Website was realized. In collaboration with photographer Jean-Jaques Ruchti, technically elaborate images were created that perfectly complemented the concept of precision work.

Responsible at Carbomill: Patrick Meyer. Responsible at Inter-Punkt.: Fabian Koch (consulting), Christoph Zimmermann (graphics), Christian Birnbaumer (programming), Carla Wilhelm (text). Photographer: Jean-Jaques Ruchti.

In the article published on November 10, 2010, the newspaper harshly criticized the head of the Biel/Bienne Office for Adult and Youth Protection and accused her of favouritism. The woman had filled several positions with people she knew from her previous job. The prime example cited in the article was a former chef who had been made head of the office's internal auditing department. The man had previously gone bankrupt with his restaurant, according to the article, against which the Biel/Bienne city government lodged a complaint with the Press Council.

According to the Press Council, however, the documents submitted by the parties showed that the man had not gone bankrupt, but had liquidated his small hotel in the normal way. The newspaper could have found this out with serious research, according to the Press Council's statement. The alleged bankruptcy was just one of various accusations made against the man in order to portray him as unsuitable for his office, the Press Council continues. The Bieler Tagblatt should therefore have heard the person concerned about the allegations.

The Press Council considered a public survey launched by the Bieler Tagblatt a week later under the title "Should the director resign?" to be problematic, although not yet in breach of professional ethics. The following week, the newspaper then published a series of anonymous responses that made sweepingly negative comments about the office and its management.

A majority of the Press Council was of the opinion that such an anonymous shard court was still within the bounds of freedom of comment. Nevertheless, it would have been more appropriate to publish and justify such harsh criticism in a named editorial commentary, the Press Council continued. The most important task of independent media, to critically monitor the work of the authorities and point out possible abuses, should not be delegated to anonymous reader surveys. (SDA)
 

With the special report NET-Metrix Streaming 2011, detailed basic information on streaming usage by Swiss Internet users is available for the first time. The latest figures show that many Swiss people are already interested in audio and video content. More than 3 million Swiss use streaming offers over the Internet at least occasionally, which is around 60 percent of Internet users. Around half a million or almost one in ten Internet users do so daily or almost daily. Due to the ever-increasing range of services and the simultaneous increase in connection speeds, this proportion is likely to rise even further, according to the study.

There are clear characteristics in terms of people: Significantly more men (61.5 percent) than women (38.5 percent) represent streaming users. The difference is even more pronounced among heavy streaming users (71.7 percent to 28.4 percent). A clear picture also emerges in terms of age distribution: at just under 64 percent, the younger age groups (14 to 39 years) dominate the streaming user base; among heavy users, this proportion is even around 79 percent.

Live offers very popular
In addition to the basic information, the survey also asked about the streaming services used. One in two Internet users regularly watches videos on video portals such as YouTube, Clipfish or My Video, i.e. several times a month or more. Clips on news and TV portals are also very popular, regularly consumed by around 40 percent of Swiss Internet users. This picture is even more pronounced among streaming heavy users: Virtually all (95.6 percent) of this group regularly use videos on video portals, and for a large majority this also applies to news and TV portals (78.1 percent).

Live offerings are also very popular. 1.7 million Swiss or around one in three Internet users regularly use Web radio, 790,000 of them several times a week or more. The figures for the use of Web TV services are also impressive: As many as 1.4 million Swiss people at least occasionally browse the offerings of well-known providers such as Wilmaa, Zattoo and Teleboy, and around 570,000 do so several times a week or more.
 

In the study, 71.4 percent stated that they use the internet for this purpose, among others. 54.2 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed from 13 Swiss cities stated that they use the Internet for fun. 52.3 percent read news and magazines, 51.9 percent used the Internet to educate themselves and 28.9 percent used it to buy products and services.

The search engine Google is the most visited website with 22.9% of regular users. The social network Facebook follows with 18.7%. The video platform YouTube is in third place with 6.5% of regular visitors.

Online consumption behavior
The age group of over 55-year-old internet users is by far the most eager to buy. According to the study, they spent an average of CHF 1,862 on internet orders in 2010. In comparison, members of the 25-34 age group spent CHF 10,078.

The online platform Ricardo.ch is the most frequently used for online purchases, with 8.4% of users currently using it. This is followed in turn by the websites of Amazon, Easyjet and eBay. 53% of those surveyed also stated that they would use the mobile Internet - once they knew how - to find products and services in their immediate vicinity, which attests to the great potential of this form of customer acquisition.

The study was presented on Tuesday by marketing and retail management professor Thomas Rudolph at a media conference organized by Ricardo.ch in Zug.
 

The new dishes will be advertised in trade journals. In addition, all Pastinella partners will be informed about the new ready meals with an A4 product sheet.

Responsible at Pastinella Orior Menu, Oberentfelden: Michel Nick (Head of Marketing), Patrizia Fischer (Marketing Assistant). Responsible at Ideart Lucerne: Ludek Martschini (creation, consulting), Peter Martschini (production / organization), Martin Bucher (text).
 

The Arnold mountain farming family lives with six children and their grandmother under the most basic conditions in the Schächental valley in Uri. Like so many in the region, the farm can only be reached by cable car. However, it was not the remoteness and the hard work in the steep terrain that caused the family more and more grief in the past, but the space problems in the much too small house. With the support of Swiss Mountain Aid, the house was extended and enlarged.

As a small thank you for their help, the donors receive a few suggestions for the most beautiful cable car tours in the Schächen Valley in Uri with the mailing. A cable car guide and a cable car hiking map have been included.

Responsible at Swiss Mountain Aid: Rudolf Streuli (Fundraising), Ivo Torelli (Communication). Responsible at Exxtra Kommunikation, Zurich: Dominik Oberwiler (ECD), Christoph Hänsli (AD), Julia Brandstätter (text), Edi Walker (consulting); Yannick Andrea, Thomas Schuppiser, (photography); Beat Wirz (text).
 

For example, customers have access to a benefits advisor to answer questions about insurance benefits and a premium calculator. Based on user behaviour, the website is also able to personalize the information provided and display appropriate content. For example, the location of the nearest agency is automatically determined using geolocation data and suggested to the customer as a contact.

The website should reflect the company's brand messages as a high-quality and individual health insurance company.
 

The aim of the campaign is to publicize the anniversary and the associated special offers and events, as well as to strengthen brand loyalty. The promotion-style visuals appear on posters, catalogs, direct mail, employee signs, competition stands and at the POS - throughout Ticino. Trio sent its creative director to Lugano to assess the impact of the campaign "in vivo". On a Video his journey can be followed.

Responsible at Manor: Lukas Vasvary. Responsible at Agence Trio: Tatiana Amaudruz (Consultant), Fabian Echeverria (Creative Direction), Yvo Hählen (Art Direction), Jesus Gonzalez and Sandrine Llopis (Concept), Donatella Cinzano (Text).
 

Nor was it justified for Ticinonews.ch, Il Caffè, Corriere del Ticino, la Regione Ticino and Giornale del Popolo to identify the man's wife as an alleged rape victim. This is the result of a ruling by the Press Council published on Tuesday.

In September 2010, RSI reported on two consecutive days in the program Il Quotidiano about the arrest of a doctor for an alleged rape. The website Ticinonews.ch then named the wife as the alleged victim. Other media followed suit. The Press Council then received two complaints: a relative complained about the reports from RSI and a journalist about those from Ticinonews.ch, Il Caffè, Corriere del Ticino, la Regione Ticino and Giornale del Popolo.

RSI defended itself against the complaint by arguing that the doctor had become a public figure due to an earlier sensational affair. It was therefore permissible to mention his name. Ticinonews.ch and the newspapers concerned expressed different opinions.

For the Press Council, the mention of the doctor's name by RSI immediately after his arrest was not justified. This was because his public profile was only relative and the current case was not directly related to the earlier affair or his professional activities, the Council stated. Nor was it necessary to warn the public at that time.

After RSI had already reported on two consecutive days in an identifying manner, the follow-up by the other Ticino media hardly caused any further damage, the Press Council continued. The identification of the victim by Ticinonnews.ch and various newspapers, on the other hand, is considered by the Council to be misguided. Even after the doctor was named as a possible perpetrator, the protection of the victim continued to take priority. And since the distribution of the website in question was not comparable to that of RSI's television programs, the other media should not have identified the alleged victim, regardless of Ticinonews.ch's advance.