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
Brown-fronted woodpecker male forecrown brown, centre yellow, rear red with black rear neck. In female whole crown yellow. Brown-fronted woodpecker The brown-fronted woodpecker ("Dendrocoptes auriceps") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It ranges across the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bhutan. Some taxonomic authorities continue to place the species in "Dendrocopos", while others place it genus "Leiopicus". Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. A medium-sized, pied woodpecker with yellow in crown. White-barred (rather than spotted)