Samuels Advertising Reveals Designs on Expansion With New V.P., Business Development Hire Mona Landry (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAMUELS ADVERTISING, one of the industry's most respected full-service design agencies, specializing in entertainment media campaigns and packaging, has tapped MONA LANDRY as new Vice President of Business Development.

Design wizardry (The Telegraph)
One of the first things to greet customers when they walk into Sign Magic is a revolving backlit sign, advertising Starbucks on one side and a Godfrey Hard Rock Cafe on the other.

New flags, new balls and skin tight vests (TykesMAD)
Wembley Stadium has gone into FA Cup Final mode. The huge flags advertising the final between City and Pompey are now on display. It has a 20 panel design instead of the usual 32 and it's described thus "The new Teijin micro fibre material gives the ball its power and a super soft touch.

Google dominates UK search advertising (eyefortravel.com)
Google continues to dominate UK search advertising, capturing 85% of search engine spending in the first quarter of 2008 and increasing its ROI by 14% since last quarter of 2007.

TechInsights' EE Times Named One of the Most Powerful B2B Advertising Venues by BtoB Magazine (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TechInsights , the global media, professional services and marketing services business for the Creators of Technology, today announced that its flagship media outlet, EE Times, has been recognized as one of the most influential B2B advertising venues in publishing for the second consecutive year.

Accounts, People, Miscellany (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
News about advertising.

Ad Track: These promo items may be mightier than the pen (USA Today)
A look at what's new in advertising and marketing. That logoed pen you dole out to potential clients? So incredibly lame when compared with the thousands of other brandable items on display at the Advertising Specialty Institute's trade show last week.