Roundtable: Send your questions to our mobile and telecoms marketing experts

LONDON – Marketing and Yahoo! are hosting a roundtable discussion about the challenges facing marketers in the telecoms sector.

Send your questions to our roundtable of mobile and telecoms marketing experts

LONDON – Marketing and Yahoo! are hosting a roundtable discussion about the challenges facing marketers in the telecoms sector.

Jim Marshall leaves Starcom MediaVest Group

LONDON – Jim Marshall has stepped down from his role as executive director of Starcom Media Group UK with immediate effect, ending a tenure that has spanned more than 20 years.

Aviva reviews £150m global media planning and buying needs

LONDON – Aviva, the insurance giant formerly known as Norwich Union in the UK, has called a review of its £150m global media planning and buying requirements in a bid to consolidate the business for the first time in the company’s history.

Will this teen girl swallow sperm or not in this video?

The question in this video is: Can I get a sexually transmitted infection by swallowing sperm? very viral 😉 advertiser: Sensoa allaboutsex.be

Tesco to offer free movie downloads with DVD purchases

LONDON – Tesco is set of offer free movie downloads to consumers who buy selected DVDs in its stores.

OFT urged to probe impact of local authority publications on commercial media sector

LONDON – The Newspaper Society is calling on the Office of Fair Trading to examine the impact of local authority publications on the local media sector.

Telegraph revamps Saturday Review section

LONDON – The Daily Telegraph is overhauling its Saturday Review section this weekend (12 September) as a magazine supplement.

Digicom hires first marketing manager

LONDON – Digicom, the digital out-of-home sales house formed last year by former CBS Outdoor International chief executive Tom Goddard, has appointed former JCDecaux head of marketing Liz Ross Martyn as its first marketing manager.

Michael Phelps commits to Speedo until 2013

LONDON – Speedo has extended its partnership with swimming superstar Michael Phelps through to 2013 despite the recent controversy over rival Paul Biedermann’s performing-enhancing swimsuit, the Arena X-Glid polyurethane suit.

Hundreds visit Inaugural Campaign Photo award exhibition

LONDON – View a gallery of photos from last night’s exhibition of Campaign Photo award winners.

Bang 8 Olufsen in European direct mail push

LONDON – Bang 8 Olufsen, the upmarket consumer electronics retailer, has launched …

Fiver acquires raft of new shows for autumn

LONDON – Five’s digital sibling Fiver has acquired a revival of 1980’s classic Knight Rider as part of a raft of new acquisitions for the autumn season.

Waterstones and Penguin offer dance classes for Fame movie launch

LONDON – Waterstones and Penguin have tied up to launch an experiential campaign to support the release of the new Fame movie.

M&S promotes £10 a month Premium Club for credit card customers

LONDON – M&S Money is encouraging people to sign up for its credit card by promoting its new ‘Premium Club’.

Mothercare buys out social network for parents

LONDON – Mothercare has taken full control Gurgle.com, the joint venture social network established in 2007.

EHS Brann’s Mike Spicer poses nude to promote 2010 MCCA awards

LONDON – Mike Spicer, group managing director of EHS Brann, has posed in the nude to promote the 2010 Marketing Communication Consultants Association (MCCA) awards and communicate a ‘creatively uninhibited’ theme devised by EHS Brann.

Hovis backs farmhouse-loaf launch by giving away one million loaves

LONDON – Premier Foods is adding a Soft White Farmhouse loaf to its Hovis range of bread and bakery products.

John Lewis runs ‘price match’ email campaign

LONDON – John Lewis is running a ‘price match’ promotion on cookware, women’s clothing and beauty products until Saturday.

Thomson Local agrees settlement with Data HQ for unlicensed data sale

LONDON – B2B data giant Thomson Local has received an undisclosed out-of-court settlement from Chelmsford-based database firm Data HQ for the unauthorised sale of its data.