HBOS Marketing Campaign HBOS Marketing Campaign In late 2000, UK bank Halifax began a long-running television advertisement campaign featuring staff singing popular songs with the words changed to reflect its financial services products. The campaign was the brainchild of DLKW Creative Directors Malcolm Green and Gary Betts, who had previously found fame when they launched the Gary Lineker Walkers Crisps campaign. Auditions were held and Halifax employee Howard Brown was selected by Green and Betts to spearhead the new advertising drive for the bank in 2000. Brown was the first and most frequently featured star of these adverts. His first advert saw him
Rufous-fronted babbler but is now considered as conspecific with to rufous-fronted babbler. Rufous-fronted babbler The rufous-fronted babbler ("Stachyridopsis rufifrons") is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in moist lowland forests, grass or bamboo up to 2,100 m altitude. This 12 cm long babbler has a rufous crown, grey supercilium, brown upperparts and pale buff underparts. the juvenile has a paler crown and underparts. The song is a piping "tuh tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh", and the alarm call is a rolled "wirrri". An extirpated endemic Thailand form