Cannes Lions: Ruf Lanz on the film shortlist

Another shortlist nomination for the international advertising festival has been announced. Ruf Lanz is the only Swiss agency on the film shortlist in Cannes.

The cinema spot "Death proof" for the vegetarian restaurant Hiltl has made it to the final in the Craft category "Sound design", newly created in 2010, and can thus still hope for a lion. The result in Cannes will be announced on Saturday evening.
Several Swiss agencies have already been nominated, including Advico Y&R, SFLB, Ruf Lanz, Saatchi & Saatchi, Futurecom Interactive and Rod Kommunikation.
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The nominated campaigns per category:
Promo & Activation
"Supreme Security" by Advico Y&R for Supreme Security Company.

PR
"Take Over" by Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett for the weekly Woz.

Direct
"Romantic Power Blackout" by Ruf Lanz for the Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke.
"Supreme Security" by Advico Y&R for Supreme Security Company.

Radio
"City Street" by Saatchi & Saatchi Carouge for Novartis Consumer Health.
"Office" by Saatchi & Saatchi Carouge for Novartis Consumer Health.
"Park" by Saatchi & Saatchi Carouge for Novartis Consumer Health.
"Amsterdam" by Jung von Matt/Limmat for Mercedes-Benz Switzerland.
"Athens" by Jung von Matt/Limmat for Mercedes-Benz Switzerland.
"Amarillo" by Jung von Matt/Limmat for Mercedes-Benz Switzerland.
"Moskow" by Jung von Matt/Limmat for Mercedes-Benz Switzerland.

Outdoor
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Media
"Supreme Security" by Advico Y&R for Supreme Security Company.
"No Comment" by Futurecom Interactive for Reporters Without Borders.
"Slow Down" by Rod Kommunikation for the Swiss Insurance Association SVV/the Accident Prevention Advisory Board.

Press
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Film Craft
"Death proof" by Ruf Lanz for the vegetarian restaurant Hiltl.

Passaia - Fresh from the tree

Bright purple-yellow bottles hang from exotic palm trees and the harvest lies in baskets under the trees, ready for passers-by to take away. Today, the palm trees in Lausanne were in well-frequented places.

Behind the activity is the refreshing drink Passaia. The aim is to give passers-by a dash of exoticism on their morning commute to work. The oasis provided a refreshing start to the day in Zurich on Wednesday. In Bern, this campaign took place on Thursday and today, Friday, Lausanne, Place St. François and Place de l'Europe are planned as the last destinations.
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New business and program director of Radio 32

Thomas Denzel will take over as Managing Director and Program Director of Radio 32 on August 1, 2010, succeeding Peter Scheurer, who will leave the company at the end of July.

Peter Scheurer becomes program director of Radio Capital FM in Bern. The capital city radio station belongs to the Zurich media group Tamedia.
Thomas Denzel will assume responsibility for both Radio 32 and Radio 32 Werbe AG. After completing his basic commercial training and further training as a marketing planner and federally certified sales manager, the long-standing business and sales manager of Radio 32 Werbe AG worked for the former advertising agencies Assa and Ofa as well as for Hallwag in Berne before moving to Radio 32 Werbe AG in 1991.
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Radio 32's broadcasting area extends from Aarau via Solothurn to Biel and Bern. The regional radio station is listened to by over 166,000 people every day.

Annual General Meeting of Radio Emme

At its annual general meeting on June 24, 2010, Radio Emme presented its financial results for the previous year. Despite the challenging economic environment, the company managed to generate a cash flow of approximately 124,000 Swiss francs.

The number of listeners also increased. In the first quarter of 2010, around
63,000 people listen to the programs neo1 and neo zwei. According to a press release issued by Radio Emme on Friday, the number of listeners to both programs has increased by almost 28 percent in the last year, as program director Jüre Lehmann explains.
2009 was also the first year in which the increased fees were paid out in full. This increase is a pleasure and a relief, according to Chairman of the Board of Directors Erich Stamm. However, the federal requirements and framework conditions associated with the new concession also lead to additional expenditure in various areas. Following various bookings to adjust the balance sheet, a balance sheet carryforward of just under CHF 2,000 can now be reported for the first time in the history of Radio Emme.
At the Annual General Meeting, the current members of the Board of Directors Juliette Vögeli and Brigitte Bucher were elected.
adopted. Following the election of four new members, the Board of Directors now consists of six people.
Radio Emme currently employs 21 people. Radio Emme AG was founded in 1997. The company is licensed by the Federal Office of Communications for the Emmental region.

Kenzo focuses on flowers

Cyclists are out and about in Zurich today, Friday, with a flower on their handlebars. The only thing on the red poppy is a small note.

Whether the flower steals the desired attention from the small piece of paper remains to be seen. However, the red flowers fluttering through Zurich today are just right for the summer weather.
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New local newspaper in Prättigau

The Davoser Zeitung and the Klosterser Zeitung are getting a sister publication. On Friday, the first issue of the new weekly newspaper, the Prättigauer Post, was published.

The new paper is largely identical to the Klosterser Zeitung, but contains additional text pages with reports from the Prättigau communities in addition to the different header, as the publisher, Buchdruckerei Davos, announced. According to the publisher, the local weekly newspaper will in future report on interesting facts from the valley in a serious style.

Two new members on the Board of Directors of Le Temps

At its 12th Annual General Meeting, held today in Geneva, Le Temps elected two new members to its Board of Directors. They are Pietro Supino, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tamedia, and Marc Walder, Managing Director of Ringier Switzerland & Germany.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors thanked the outgoing members Théo Bouchat, former CEO of Edipresse Suisse, and Martin Werfeli, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Ringier, for their commitment and their important contribution to the success of Le Temps.
The Board of Directors of Le Temps SA is now composed as follows:
Stéphane Garelli, President
Pietro Supino, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tamedia
Pierre Lamunière, Chairman and Delegate of the Board of Directors of the Edipresse Group
Tibère Adler, CEO of the Edipresse Group
Michael Ringier, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ringier
Marc Walder, Managing Director of Ringier Switzerland & Germany
Daniel Pillard, Managing Director of Ringier Romandie
Claude Demole, as a private individual
Jean-Clément Texier, Le Monde, Paris
After a difficult financial year in 2009, Le Temps' results in the first half of 2010 were in line with expectations. Thanks in particular to the development of its brand and content on other media, it recorded strong growth in overall readership, according to a Le Temps press release. Over the last six months, Le Temps has also renewed its management and editorial team to ensure the implementation of its new corporate strategy. It is also preparing new initiatives in the digital and editorial fields, which will be launched at the end of summer 2010.

"Write the future" in South Africa - messages for stars on LED screens

Flanked by 90-meter-high images of Cristiano Ronaldo and Robinho, an interactive LED screen, almost as big as half a football pitch, offers sports fans from all over the world the opportunity to write their own headlines on the brightly lit Johannesburg skyline.

Towering high above the rooftops of downtown Johannesburg is one of the city's most striking buildings, the Life Center. The 30-storey, 138-meter high building, the fourth tallest in Johannesburg, serves as a spectacular base for Nike's latest interactive, digital Out of Home advertising campaign. Football fans can use the LED installation to send their personal messages to their beloved football stars, which can then be seen far above the rooftops of Johannesburg. According to Nike President and CEO Mark Parker, the aim is to bring the Nike brand to life and make it tangible for football fans.
Football fans can send a 57-character personal message to over 50 Nike athletes from around the world via Twitter, Facebook, Mxit (South Africa) and QQ (China). Each night, up to 100 messages will be selected and integrated into a digital animation that will be projected across the Johannesburg night sky. Each fan will be personally notified and will receive an image of the animation as soon as their fan message is used, according to a Nike press release. The campaign is just one of many examples of how fans can participate in Nike's "Write Future" campaign. Since the campaign began almost four weeks ago, over 32 million people have already been reached online.
Özil lights up Johannesburg - Gigantic LED projection of the golden goalscorer
Shortly before kick-off of the all-important final group match against Ghana, the German attacking hope was given a very special honor: Mesut Özil's likeness was projected onto the façade of the Life Center in Johannesburg, one of the tallest buildings in the South African metropolis. After scoring the decisive goal, the match-winner not only shone on the pitch, but also over the whole of Johannesburg.
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Pakistan controls Google

Pakistan is investigating several major Internet companies on suspicion of blasphemy. Among them is the search engine provider Google.

The companies are accused of disseminating "un-Islamic material". The inspection was initiated by the national telecommunications authority after a provincial court in the East Pakistani region of Punjab ordered the sites to be blocked. As the SDA writes, the providers under observation include Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Amazon, Bing and YouTube as well as 17 smaller providers.
Last month, Pakistan temporarily blocked the Facebook network because a group had called for people to take part in a competition for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

The best in corporate publishing - BCP Yearbook 2010 with 133 portraits

The 2010 BCP Yearbook will be published on June 30 in Hamburg, coinciding with the announcement of the 2010 BCP Awards. This comprehensive compendium of outstanding corporate publications showcases award winners, shortlisted nominees, and participants in the current BCP competition, and introduces the key players in corporate publishing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

In addition, the yearbook’s extensive editorial section highlights the most important trends and developments in the corporate publishing market. Across 408 pages, a total of 133 profiles and well over 1,100 illustrations showcase the broad spectrum of German-language corporate publications and their editorial and design quality. Twenty-three titles are editorially managed in Switzerland, and 21 Swiss companies and 11 corporate publishing service providers are featured in the 2010 yearbook.
A tabular overview of the award winners and shortlisted nominees, along with a list of the publishing companies, editorial teams, and CP service providers, makes the BCP Yearbook an indispensable guide for anyone interested in corporate communications.
The yearbook has been published annually since 2006 by Forum Corporate Publishing (FCP) and Horizont Productions to coincide with the BCP Awards ceremony, and is considered one of the most important reference works in the corporate publishing industry. The 2010 edition costs 69 euros and will be available online starting June 30 through the bookstore of Deutscher Fachverlag www.dfv-fachbuch.de, directly below best-of-corporate-publishing.de or by email to [email protected], can be ordered.
BCP 2010
With consistently more than 600 entries, the BCP Best of Corporate Publishing is the largest corporate publishing competition in Europe. Since 2003, the Forum Corporate Publishing, in collaboration with the leading industry magazines Acquisa, Horizont, Werben & Verkaufen, and the Swiss magazine Werbewoche, has been honoring the best corporate publications with the BCP Awards.
The Corporate Publishing Forum brings together approximately 100 corporate publishing providers from German-speaking countries. They offer services for all areas of corporate communications, ranging from traditional print products to new electronic media. The Forum is Europe’s largest association of corporate publishing service providers and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009.
HORIZONT productions is a service division of the Verlagsgruppe Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH and, as a service provider, handles the production and marketing of media projects in both print and digital formats. HORIZONT productions develops ideas for its clients on media tailored to specific topics and target audiences, creates layouts and designs, and coordinates production and distribution.

E.g. Advertising is a supporter of the "Extraordinary Members" club

The Swiss Football Association (SFV) has relaunched its «Extraordinary Members» club for its loyal fans: These supporters are guaranteed one thing above all else—a coveted ticket to all of the Swiss national team’s home games.

Within the club, the association distinguishes between three categories: gold, silver and bronze. Depending on the category, there are VIP tickets and advance purchase rights for the home games of all national teams and advance purchase rights for Fifa World Cup and Uefa matches. There are also additional benefits.
The SFV was supported in the implementation of Z.B. advertising. In addition to a new CI/CD, three different welcome packages - one for each category -, a member card, stationery, envelopes, a web banner and a ticket folder were produced.
As a welcome gift, Extraordinary Members will be sent a new Member Card in a mailing together with an original Puma football from the Swiss national team (gold), the original jersey (silver) or an original pennant.
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Shell positions itself as the "good guy"

BP currently has a bad public image. Shell is now taking advantage of this to position itself as the "good guy.".

Despite all attempts to improve its badly damaged image, BP is seen in a bad light by the public. Everyone agrees on that. Shell is now using this for its own image campaign:

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