Insiders' Guide - Mindshare Direct
18 Nov 2008 | by Media Week
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LONDON - Royal Mail is a major force in direct mail innovation and has developed a product portfolio over the past 18 months that offers advertisers personalised, physically engaging mail concepts.
Andy Halliwell, board director of Carat with particular responsibility for Carat Direct, is set to leave the agency at the end of the year to become director and general manager at direct marketing specialist The Leaflet Company.
LONDON - Nationwide Building Society has appointed Carat to handle the £5m media planning and buying account for its new insurance business, set to launch in conjunction with Liverpool Victoria (LV=) in December.
LONDON - The planning for the next Media 121 Club, the new networking event put together by Haymarket Brand Media and Miroma Group, is well underway and the site is open for new registrations.
LONDON - Trader Media Group, the owner of car sales magazine Auto Trader, will be the first media owner to publish an enhanced ABCe certificate for its website, Autotrader.co.uk, which will provide agencies with new data such as users' country of residency.
LONDON - The Evening Standard is launching a new charity version of its customer loyalty Eros Card that enables readers to donate savings they make on the paper's cover price to their chosen charity.
LONDON - Dan Handscomb, ad director at IPC Innovator, the publisher's insert and print-technology sales arm, is leaving the company to join Media Force-owned National Letterbox Marketing.
LONDON - Turner Broadcasting is launching an interactive loyalty card enabling Nuts TV viewers with a Sky set-top box to accrue and redeem points against third-party offers and take part in viewer competitions.
LONDON - Rail operator Virgin Trains has appointed customer publishing company Ink to produce its relaunched magazine Hotline, snatching the title from rival River Publishing.