LONDON – Data analytics house CACI has bought Monitor Media, a digital agency specialising in online applications, ecommerce websites and email marketing for Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut and Aviva.
LONDON – The Findus Group, which owns brands including Young’s Seafood, has appointed Leendert den Hollander to the new group role of chief marketing officer.
LONDON – Search optimisation and online reputation management firm Digitalis Media has appointed Mark Wood, previously CEO of AXA, Paternoster, Prudential and AA, as chairman.
NEW YORK – Twitter has teamed up with budget handheld messaging firm Peek to launch the first Twitter mobile device.
Engagement is the new jargon du jour amongst marketers. But, Simon Kershaw asks, do beer drinkers want to ‘engage’ with their pint of Becks or merely consume it?
LONDON – Virgin Atlantic has released an iPhone app featuring a panic button aimed at anxious flyers.
LONDON – Latin American social networking site Sonico has appointed former Bebo executive Angel Gambino as vice president of business development.
Randstad, the second-largest recruitment group in the world, has launched a review of its £50m media planning and buying in Europe, with a view to consolidating the business.
LONDON – BrightHouse, the rent-to-buy furniture and electronics retailer, is mounting a £1.5m awareness and direct response campaign to promote its ‘pay weekly’ service.
LONDON – Sony and Last.fm have teamed up to launch what they claim is the world’s first fantasy music festival.
In this video a man is running against horses in a steeplechase… Advertiser: Weetabix Agency: WCRS, London, UK Creatives: Larry Seftel, Dave Day Agency Producer: Sally Lipsius Production Company: Rattling Stick Producer: Sally Humphries Director: Ringan Ledwidge DP: Jess Hall Editing […]
Sky Digital Media has made a raft of senior appointments and tied up one of the biggest commercial deals in cinema.
UKRD and The Local Radio Company are the second and third radio firms to leave RadioCentre, the trade body for the commercial radio industry, following UTV’s departure at the end of September.
Concourse Initiatives has won the estimated multimillion-pound, five-year experiential contract for Network Rail following a competitive pitch.
BBC Magazines has ceased publishing one of its flagship children’s titles, Teletubbies.
LONDON – Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell parts of their brand portfolios following European Commission pressure to improve competition in the UK banking sector.
LONDON – The most motivating TV ad in the past six months was for Dettol’s Surface antibacterial spray, according to a top ten compiled by TNS’s new ad research service Mercury.
LONDON – TNT, the Dutch-owned postal business and chief UK rival to Royal Mail, said it is gaining business in the courier part of its operation thanks to strikes by Royal Mail workers, but that its postal operations are suffering.
Global Radio’s nationwide rollout of the Heart brand – one of the biggest such moves in commercial radio history – is proving a success, according to the latest RAJARs.
LONDON – Woolworths, the former high street retailer relaunched as an online brand, is mounting a major digital campaign this month to acquire customers in the run-up to Christmas.
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