20 Aug 2007
| by Isabella Piasecka
LONDON - Alliance Boots has axed Naked Communications from its £45m media account and reassigned strategic communications duties to WPP's MediaCom.
20 Aug 2007
| by Andrew McCormick
LONDON - BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has struck a deal that will give mobile operator O2’s 17.8 million customers access to themed BBC video clips, wallpapers and ringtones.
20 Aug 2007
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - PHD has appointed Mark Eaves as managing director of its branded content division Drum after the founding partners Laurence Munday and Simon George left.
20 Aug 2007
| by Victoria Frost
LONDON - DC Thomson, the publisher of children's comics The Beano and The Dandy, is studying the possibility of delivering its cartoons to mobile phones.
20 Aug 2007
| by Sarah Crawley-Boevey
LONDON - Former Chrysalis chief executive Richard Huntingford has been appointed chairman of Virgin Radio Holdings as the company prepares for an initial public offering (IPO).
20 Aug 2007
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Delegates attending this weekend's The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival will drink an average of 20 units of alcohol and party into the early morning, according to research from Discovery Networks UK.
20 Aug 2007
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - The Office of Fair Trading has agreed to consider a review of the contracts rights renewal mechanism that has governed ITV1’s advertising prices since 2004.
20 Aug 2007
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Channel 4 is today launching its new repeats channel Channel 4+1 on digital platforms. The new channel will replace repeats channel Film 4+1 on Freeview and Virgin Media, but will take up a new slot on the Sky platform.
20 Aug 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, has been appointed an executive fellow of London Business School and will be attached to the marketing faculty.
20 Aug 2007
| by Alex Donohue
LONDON - Buena Vista International has agreed a deal with Bebo to promote forthcoming British movie 'Hallam Foe' through the social networking site's online drama series, 'KateModern'.