Tesco hopes to create a "digital campus" with the opening of a number of offices in North London, as it seeks to benefit from the growing number of tech start-ups in the capital.
Tesco has poached Facebook head of retail Gavin Sathianathan and Sainsbury's head of digital and cross channel Mark Bennett, to Blinkbox's books and music offering.
Channel 4 has struck a major advertising partnership with Microsoft and developed the UK's first video-on-demand app for its Windows 8 platform.
05 Dec 2012
| by Staff
The Rev Awards are set to launch next year, celebrating the ingenuity and imaginative use of technology in the UK's digital marketing communications industry.
24 Oct 2012
| by Dave Katz
Dave Katz, UK managing director at Ybrant digital, warns marketers not to become complacent about digital media in all forms, as the sector still has plenty of curve balls to come.
Littlewoods is to air a live TV show about technology Christmas gift ideas on Facebook, complete with four ad breaks showcasing products from the Littlewoods.com range.
This week Amice Lock, managing director of Liquid Thread, Starcom MediaVest Group's branded content division, cheers on her son through 'Bugsy Malone', trains for a charity run, talks Olympics with Bauer and discovers raw chocolate.
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?
MediaCom has appointed Bafta's head of communications Thea Cole to the post of head of branded content for the agency's Beyond Advertising offering.
This week Paul La Fontaine, chief executive of Sulake, visits his teams in Madrid and Helsinki to discuss their upcoming plans for Habbo Hotel, watches a movie in a sauna and learns Finnish on Skype.