The festival, which was founded by the organizers of the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, is being held for the third time this year and includes seminars, workshops, exhibitions and the award gala in addition to the young talent competitions. Previously, the three-day festival took place in Stockholm and Amsterdam, where more than 800 participants from 36 nations took part last year.

Her idea: if you shop at the Brockenhaus and look around on site, you can not only furnish your home cheaply. There is also the chance to buy a real designer piece, a first edition, a valuable original painting. As happened again recently, when a lucky buyer purchased a Jackson Pollock worth several million dollars for five dollars at the Brockenhaus in San Bernardino, California. The claim "Surprises included" is intended to sum up this advantage of the Brockenhaus. The cinema campaign is designed for the long term and is supported by banner advertising. The first season has just started.

Responsible at the Arche Zürich association: Ernst Haueter (Managing Director, overall responsibility), Kathrin Winzeler (Marketing and Communication), Roger Notter (Head of Arche Brockenhaus). Responsible for creation and production: Hans Peter Brugger (Basel, text and concept), Frank Bernhardt (Continue, Basel, art direction and concept).

For several months now, Billag has been asking small and medium-sized businesses across the board to pay reception fees for radio and TV sets. The SGV opposes that SMEs have to pay Billag fees, association director Hans-Ulrich Bigler told the newspaper Sonntag. As it says in the document on the Website the association assumes "that sooner or later SMEs will be completely exempted from paying radio and TV fees, true to the motto that legal entities can neither listen to the radio nor watch TV. At the heart of the letter, which traders can send to Billag - as well as a copy to the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) - is a ban on all employees and agents of the collection company, in addition to clarification of the reporting obligation issue. There is no legal basis for Billag employees to come into the company and snoop around like detectives, Bigler continued.

As the study shows, hours of commercial-free television or the consumption of DVD films are no guarantee that young viewers will become fat. However, there is a clear correlation between the consumption of commercial television and an increased body mass index (BMI). Children who are exposed to too much commercial television are more likely to suffer from obesity. This is because they are mainly exposed to advertising for sugary breakfast cereals, snacks, fast food and even worse things. The conclusion should be clear: an advertising ban is needed. Or even better, or much more effective: sweets and other fattening foods should be banned altogether!

A 20-strong Publicis creative team, led from London and supported from New York and Zurich, is currently working on the new global umbrella campaign, as the business magazine Bilanz reports. The new advertising presence is intended to combine self-confidence and modesty, but not to promise too much. In contrast to the previous "You & Us" campaign, which was also developed by the agency, the aim this time is not to advertise nationwide. In addition to Switzerland and the USA, the bank wants to concentrate primarily on the major European markets. While the previous campaign cost CHF 110 million per year at its peak, the amount is now likely to be around CHF 50 million, according to the balance sheet.

The original agencies specializing in scene marketing, events, promotions, public relations, media planning and online marketing will be continued and expanded as departments, according to a press release issued on Monday. The individual agencies have been under the management of Fridolin Stauffacher for more than ten years, Joko Vogel and Augustin Mettler work closely together on various projects. In November 2008, they also moved into joint premises in Zurich Enge.

The departments must be operationally functional under one management at the beginning of October 2010 in order to merge SF and Schweizer Radio DRS into a new corporate unit on January 1, 2011, according to a communiqué issued on Monday. Iso Rechsteiner, Director of Swiss Radio DRS, and Ueli Haldimann, Director of Swiss Television, have now appointed the following persons as interim department and division heads in consultation with SRG Director General Armin Walpen:
Guy Luginbühl takes over as Head of the Finance department. The 46-year-old has been Head of Finance and Services at Swiss Radio DRS for the past eight years.
Claudia Bossert heads the Communications and Marketing department. The 45-year-old has worked for Swiss Television since 1990: for the past six years as Head of Communications and Marketing, previously as Head of Communications and Chief of Staff in the Sports Department and as Project Manager for Sports Marketing.
The 55-year-old will become Head of Training Rémy Trummer. Rémy Trummer has been with Swiss television for 34 years. Among other things, he was editor of MTW, producer of various special programs, trainer, editor and producer of TAF and Mittagsmagazin as well as head of the Volkskultur editorial team. Rémy Trummer has been in charge of training since 2008.
The Human Resources division is managed by Florian Galliker is the director. A historian by training, he has been Head of Human Resources at Swiss Radio DRS since 2000.
The new Regional Director of the joint business unit is expected to be elected in June 2010. He will decide in the third quarter of 2010 whether to appoint the interim managers permanently or to advertise individual positions.

The best online presences will then be chosen at the Award Night, which will take place on March 25, 2010 at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. Anyone who has submitted a project for judging will receive two free tickets for the awards ceremony. Participants also have the opportunity to reserve a personal table (8 seats). Further information: Bestofswissweb.ch.

Humanité is published in German and French with a total circulation of 100,000 copies. The first edition was published on Monday. In future, the publication will be sent to SRC patrons four times a year. It is published by the SRC, designed by Effact in Zurich, and the 32-page magazine is printed by Vogt-Schild Druck in Derendingen.

The first LCA profiles for 14 graphic and office papers are available at Greenpaper.ch ready for retrieval. The entire life cycle of the paper is considered, from production and the use phase through to disposal of the product and the associated logistics processes. The environmental impacts are documented in detail, from rail transport to journeys made by company vehicles. This assessment also includes external electricity consumption during paper production, which is not fully taken into account in the paper profiles that have been standard in the industry to date.
The LCA profiles show the determined air and water emissions of the papers over the entire life cycle. In addition to CO2, nitrogen oxides (NOX) and sulphur dioxide (SO2), the other key parameters of Switzerland's clean air efforts, are also recorded. The LCA profiles are validated by the certification company SGS.

They are "still behind bars in violation of the protection guaranteed by the constitution of the Iranian Islamic Republic and international law", wrote Reporters Without Borders, the writers' association Pen International and four other associations of journalists in the letter. This is the "largest number" of journalists in the world to be imprisoned in one fell swoop for more than a decade, the letter, which was made available to the AFP news agency on Sunday, added.
The signatories recalled that the Iranian revolutionary leader Khomeini had promised a "society of freedom". The leadership in Tehran must now keep these promises and the guarantees of the Iranian constitution. It must release all writers, journalists and bloggers who are currently behind bars for expressing their opinions and publishing information.

In terms of reach and viewing time, the web TV viewer figures exceed all sports events previously broadcast live on InternetTV.ch, as the provider writes in a press release. This is proof that the importance of Internet television is growing rapidly.