WPP makes staff cuts at Y&R
31 Oct 2000 | by Camilla Palmer
UK-based advertising and communications group WPP Group is cutting around 100 staff at Young & Rubicam, with more cuts expected before the end of the year.
The UK’s public service broadcaster, the BBC, is considering a controversial plan to take advertisements on its licence-fee funded website BBC Online.
UK-based advertising and communications group WPP Group is cutting around 100 staff at Young & Rubicam, with more cuts expected before the end of the year.
Both the Bush and Gore US election campaigns have made little use of the internet when it comes to advertising, according to internet advertising measurement firm AdRelevance.
UK leisure and restaurant group Whitbread is closing 50 of its Cafe Rouge restaurants following poor performance in the past six months.
Shares in Amazon.com have slipped after analysts questioned whether the company has as much cash as it reported in its latest quarterly earnings.
Online cooperative-buying retailer Letsbuyit.com is looking to raise cash through a strategic partnership with a high-street retailer by the end of the year, according to reports.
French advertising group Publicis is considering merging its FCA!BMZ network into the recently acquired Saatchi & Saatchi to strengthen the UK-based agency’s position.
Markus Tellenbach, chief executive at pay-TV company Premiere World -– part of the German KirchPayTV group -– has left the company after he admitted that the division would not meet its increased target of 2.9m subscribers by the end of 2000.
US TV network Fox, owned by News Corporation, has created a new reality-style TV programme, called Surprise Wedding, where men in long-term relationships who have trouble committing will be proposed to by their girlfriends on national TV.
Online search portal AltaVista.com has won the rights to 43 domain names based on misspellings of its name in a UN court of arbitration case.