LONDON - International brand consultancy Siegel+Gale has appointed Tom Blackett, a former group deputy chairman of Interbrand, as chairman of its UK office.

LONDON - Five is to become the first UK broadcaster to offer live football via an iPhone application.

LONDON - Samsung is launching a £2m advertising campaign this week, featuring TV ads to support Samsung’s new 2View camera products.

LONDON - Yorkshire Bank has introduced a debit card for private banking clients decorated with artwork by landscape artist and Yorkshireman Ashley Jackson to commemorate its 150th anniversary.

LONDON - Meteorite has made three new appointments across its creative and account handling departments after new business wins.

LONDON - Customer publisher PSP Rare has won a commission to create a special magazine to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society.

NEW YORK - Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, has been depicted as ‘Napoleon’ by the New York Post in a report about WPP’s legal case against digital ad agency Spot Runner.

LONDON - Coffee brand Kenco is to launch its £7.5m Eco Refill sustainable packaging campaign, which promotes its refillable packs, which it says use 97% less packaging than its glass jars.

LONDON - The Marketing Society May Day Alliance is urging marketers to adopt the ‘five Rs’ - re-use, reduce, recycle, respect and reward - in all marketing communications.

LONDON - Vodafone has unveiled the first of its UK TV ads using the ‘Power to you’ tagline.