22 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
Price hikes proposed by the Royal Mail prior to a privatisation next year will hit agencies' direct marketing budgets, according to direct mail specialists Post Switch.
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of British and Irish pay TV operator BSkyB by News Corporation, a global media and communications company headquartered in the US.
A full merger between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and satellite broadcaster BSkyB will not weaken competition in the UK, the European Commission has ruled today.
Assuming control of a business is never easy, so imagine taking the reins from the founder and chairman of the UK's largest private magazine business, a former deputy prime minister, in the grip of the worst advertising recession in living memory. And he's your dad.
29 Oct 2010
| by Ben Bold
WPP Digital is investing $5m (£3.14m) into Buddy Media, a Facebook management system used by some of the world's leading brands.
29 Oct 2010
| by Ben Bold and Katherine Levy
Mindshare is moving from its conventional grey London office building on the Strand into the seventh and eighth floors of a garishly coloured, ecologically advanced, mixed-use development designed by world-renowned architect Lorenzo Piano.
29 Oct 2010
| by Staff
Car manufacturers Skoda and Citroen both hit the headlines, thanks to big changes in their marketing departments, in this week's round-up of people moves.
Comparethemeerkat.com, the meerkat comparison website launched to push insurance comparison site Comparethemarket.com, is to open a pop-up shop for two days next week on Regent Street in London.
07 Oct 2010
| by Jeremy Lee
A consortium of four international marketing consultancies, including Fairbrother Lenz Eley, have formed a new company called Axiology that is chaired by the former Unilever media director Alan Rutherford.
05 Oct 2010
| by Mark Banham
Albion has created an integrated pan-European campaign to launch Epson's new range of inkjet printers, which are aimed at small businesses.