Jessie is a new TV show on The Disney Channel starring the young American actress Debby Ryan as a small-town Texan girl who moves to New York to escape her strict father and becomes a nanny to a rich couple’s four children.

Carat’s video banner ad for Jessie offers some helpful nannying tips from the show and links to a hide-and-seek game on the Disney website. You can watch a trailer for Jessie here.

Originally broadcast on The Disney Channel in America at the end of last year, where it quickly established itself as their most successful debut for three years, Jessie was broadcast here in the UK for the first time last week.

You can meet the characters from the show here.

aka North’s latest video banner ad for Curve Theatre’s production of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! includes a link to buy tickets from the Leicester venue.

Running across our broadsheet and regional newspaper channels, it’s targeting ballet fans across cities in the Midlands and East of England ISBA regions.

Including footage from the show and newspaper quotes like ‘utterly delicious – a dazzling extravaganza’  (Sunday Telegraph) and ‘spine tingling theatrical effects’ (The Guardian), it invites fans to rollover to watch video.

Here are some links to reviews of the show.

Matthew Bourne’s version of The Nutcracker is now celebrating it’s 20th anniversary. He first staged it for Opera North in 1992 as part of its centenary celebrations. In this interview he credits Nutcracker’s “perennial appeal” to Tchaikovsky’s original score which is featured in this version of the ballet.

Marvel Studios showcased the trailer to their highly anticipated superhero film The Avengers during the Super Bowl ad break earlier this month. It differed from the teaser trailer, which was released at the end of last year, by including previously unseen footage from the film.

Directed and written by Joss Whedon, the creator of TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly, the film stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson. It’s based on the Marvel comic of the same name which was first published in 1963 and features popular characters Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow.

Marvel studios have been building up to the release of The Avengers by introducing the characters in their own films, hinting at the possibility of all the characters assembling with telling cameos from the other Marvel characters. Black Widow pops up in Iron Man 2, as does Nick Fury, who also appears in Captain America and Thor. Here are the trailers:

The UK release date for The Avengers is the 27th of April, a whole week before the American release date of 4th May.

A free chapter from Peter Robinson’s new novel, Before The Poison, can be found in the new video banner ad by Manning Gottlieb OMD for book publisher Hodder & Stoughton.

Designed here at Silence, we’re running it across our broadsheet, tabloid and radio channels in all 13 ISBA regions.

The ad reveals Before The Poison’s plot with a haunting video and this copy: ‘a beautiful woman hanged for murder – a man obsessed with finding the truth’. Fans are invited to rollover to watch this promotional video for the book.

Peter Robinson is a 61 year old British writer who has written over 25 novels since the late 80′s. His most famous works are the crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring DCI Alan Banks. Before The Poison is a thriller about a murder committed in England in the 1950′s and is the first non-Banks novel published in over twenty years. Here are some Amazon links to more of Peter’s books.

Here’s the video ad from Starcom Mediavest’s digital advertising campaign for EMI’s Emeli Sande. It offers fans the chance to watch Next To Me, Heaven and River. three of the music videos from Emeli’s debut album, Our Version Of Events.

The ad is running on our tabloid and broadsheet channels.

Emeli Sande is a Scottish singer and songwriter who has already won The Brit Awards 2012 Critics Choice award and is also nominated for British Breakthrough Act.

Emeli has written tracks for Cheryl Cole, Devlin, Tinie Tempah and Professor Green. She’s also collaborated with Chipmunk, Wiley, Tinie Tempah and scored a number 1 hit with Professor Green on Read All About It. Click these links to listen to some of those collaborations on Spotify.

And here is her music video for Next To Me:

Mediavest are using our Premium format to advertise Le Voyage Dans La Lune, the new album by Air.

The ad previews two tracks from the album, Parade and Seven Stars.

Le Voyage Dans La Lune means A Trip to the Moon in English. The album is inspired by the 1902 film of the same name by French director Georges Melies. The album comes with a restored version of the film on DVD.

Rockstar Games release Max Payne 3 in May, the latest installment of a video game franchise that has so far sold over 7.5m copies worldwide.

This video, the latest of their design and technology videos, reveals some of the weapons and gameplay that fans can expect to encounter in the new game.

Game Radar describe it as “breathtakingly fluid gunplay”.

Here’s a wonderful talk from Shawn Achor of Good Think Inc, a corporate strategy firm that believes individual happiness and organizational success are inextricably linked.

In this talk Shawn argues that people are more likely to achieve their goals at work if they are happy and positive.

It’s a compelling idea and he delivers it more like a stand-up comedian than an academic.

Please click here to vote for our talk at Digital Shoredtich 2012.  It’s easy to vote – you don’t have to register – you just click a button.

Digital Shoreditch is a two week technology and media festival in East London starting on May 21st.  This year they’re inviting companies to propose ideas for talks, showcases and workshops.  The proposals with the most votes at the end of March will be selected.

We’ve  proposed a talk about how the entertainment industry is responding to real time advertising data using our Intelligent Advertising model.

Hopefully we’ll see you there…

National Theatre Live are using our Premium video banner format to advertise their new Best of British season. Some of the best British National Theatre plays will be broadcast to cinemas across the UK and around the world as part of National Theatre Live.

The ad includes trailers for shows Travelling Light, The Comedy of Errors and She Stoops to Conquer.

The Guardian has given Travelling Light 4 stars and describes it as a ‘love letter to the movies’. Lenny Henry stars in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors set in a contemporary world into which three prohibited foreigners walk and see everything for the first time. She Stoops to Conquer offers a look into chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family with Katherine Kelly from Coronation Street starring as Miss Hardcastle.

Click here to watch our Premium and Widescreen ads for The Muppets.

Commissioned by Carat for Disney, our video ad campaign is targeting a broad national audience in the run-up to the release of the movie across the UK on February 10th.

Starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams alongside all the original Muppets and a new character called Walter, the film has already taken nearly $90m at the US Box Office.

Both of the ads feature the theatrical trailer, TV spot and share functionality. The Widescreen ad also directs people to a Challenge Animal game.

Iron Sky is a science fiction comedy about Nazis invading the earth from the dark side of the moon, where they’ve been hiding since 1945. You can read the full synopsis here.

Iron Sky’s producers have so far secured €6.3 million of their €7.5 million budget and they’re looking to fund the shortfall through crowdfunding.

At Iron Sky Sneak Peek, for example, you can watch behind the scenes footage and the first five minutes of the film for €1.

You can also help with the distribution of the film here by requesting to see it when it’s released.

Following the success of The War Horse movie and play, The History Channel are broadcasting The Real War Horse, a documentary about the horses that were used by the British army during the First World War.

It’s the story of the million horses, mules and donkeys that were sent to the Western Front.

If you missed the show on TV, the History Channel are giving people the chance to watch the full episode here.

Please click here to watch our Premium and Widescreen ads for the latest installment of the Final Fantasy video game.

Commissioned by Manning Gottlieb OMD for Square Enix, the ads include a 3 minute video introducing the gameplay in this new version, links to Twitter and Facebook and a pre-order link.

We are targeting hardcore gamers across our network.