The Media Week Awards has officially sold out for the second year running with 1,300 of the great and the good of media set to gather at the Grosvenor House Hotel this Thursday (25 October) for the biggest night in the industry calendar.
This week, Out and About takes you behind the scenes of the Media Week Awards judging as the great and good of media decide who will take home the gongs on the biggest night in media.
As media recruitment shifts to new skill sets in media including data analytics, tech functions and increasingly entrepreneurial thinkers direct from start-ups, Mark Banham asks, is the media industry in a good position to attract this new breed of employees?
The deadline for entries into this year's Media Week Awards is tomorrow (Thursday 14 June).
12 Jan 2012
| by Ben Wood
Ben Wood argues that the advertising industry must learn to understand the value of data, from the planning stage to the audit phase, in every campaign.
24 Nov 2011
| by Gary Knight and Nick Price
After a slower-than-expected uptake since getting the green light in the UK, will the practice become a fixed part of the marketing mix?
27 Oct 2011
| by Staff
Media agency PHD and Global Radio were tonight's (27 Oct) big winners at this year's Media Week Awards held at London's Grosvenor House.
18 Oct 2011
| by Christian Schmalzl
The uncertain global economy might be causing a few nerves, but it is having little negative effect on ad budgets, writes Christian Schmalzl, global investment director at MediaCom.
04 Aug 2011
| by David Wilding
You have to feel for Facebook. Imagine being asked the same question over and over, day after day and not really being able to answer it definitively. In its case, of course, that question is about the value of all these fans that we've all been so busily acquiring.
19 Jul 2011
| by Suzy Bashford
In the first of our new series of Trend Report features, Suzy Bashford looks at how females in the media industry can further their careers.