31 Dec 2010
| by Staff
Martin Sorrell's WPP has acquired the full service digital agency Blue State Digital, best known for leading Barack Obama's digital campaign in the last US presidential elections.
Children's hospice Richard House has launched a digital campaign that features 'The Apprentice' star Nick Hewer being interviewed by a puppet to raise money for the charity.
Current social media buzz surrounding Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable is largely negative, according to analysis from social media monitoring agency Brandwatch.
Vince Cable's former press secretary has hit out at the Daily Telegraph for secretly recording her old boss and other Liberal Democrat MPs in their constituency surgeries.
Downing Street's decision to remove business secretary Vince Cable from his part in the Murdoch/BSkyB bid following the secret recording of a conversation with undercover journalists raises "serious issues of journalism ethics" at the Daily Telegraph, according to a leading industry figure.
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.
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will take over Vince Cable's responsibilities for media and telecoms, after the Lib Dem business secretary "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch's plans to take over BSkyB.
Initiative is launching a no-cost, worldwide campaign to drive awareness of the research undertaken by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
Alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware is on the hunt for PR support as it looks to step up its campaigning.
Charitable group Campaign Against Drink Driving (CADD) has launched an ad campaign in an effort to reduce the number of drink-driving incidents over the festive period.