Sky opens creative agency talks
BSkyB is looking for a creative agency to handle a major new advertising brief and is preparing to expand its creative agency roster.
BSkyB is looking for a creative agency to handle a major new advertising brief and is preparing to expand its creative agency roster.
B&Q is reviewing the CRM and direct marketing account for its TradePoint business, which targets professionals in the building trade.
Saatchi & Saatchi has hired Rachel Lawlan, AKQA's head of planning, to an equivalent role and Matt Groves, from its sister agency Fallon, as the director of integration.
Daren Benton has been appointed to the role of head of investment at Arena Media.
Zenith has been appointed to the £3 million UK media planning and buying account for the fashion brand Armani.
Investec has appointed Partners Andrews Aldridge to handle the direct, digital and social media account for its private banking division.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has picked TBWA\Worldwide to handle its global advertising and CRM account.
Everything Everywhere, the umbrella brand for Orange and T-Mobile, has consolidated its estimated £50 million direct marketing business into Publicis Chemistry.
David Pattison, a founding partner of PHD and former president of the IPA, has joined the content start-up Gravity Road as its chairman.
Carat has hired Matthew Hook from Vizeum US as its chief strategy officer as part of a management restructure that also includes the appointment of the former Stella Artois marketer Jo Allan as the chief client officer.
Laithwaites, the wine merchant, has awarded its ad account to VCCP after a review.
OgilvyOne has promoted its chief executive, Annette King, to UK chairman and chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Premier Inn, the Whitbread hotel chain, has appointed Manning Gottlieb OMD to its £7 million media planning and buying account.
The Dutch brand Ketel One Vodka is looking for an agency to handle UK advertising.
18 Feet & Rising has landed the £3 million advertising account for the AkzoNobel woodcare brand Cuprinol.
The Department of Health is reviewing the advertising agency arrangements on its high-profile anti-smoking campaign.
The Home Office is looking for an advertising agency to work on quick-turnaround projects across a range of policy areas, including crime, immigration and counter-terrorism.
Luxottica, the owner of the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands and the Sunglass Hut stores, has launched a review of its global media planning and buying arrangements.
The Canadian Tourism Commission has kicked off a review of its estimated £30 million international advertising arrangements.
VCCP and McCann London are waiting to hear the result of the recent £7 million AA pitch.
Jack Dorsey, the creator, co-founder and executive chairman of Twitter, is set to be recognised as the Cannes Lions Media Person of the Year in the south of France next month, for creating "an entirely new way for people to communicate".
Welcome to the first incarnation of a new element in Campaign in which we invite experts to burrow beneath the surface of the catch-all that is "digital". Google, Isobar Mobile, JWT London, LBI and MBA share their insights on mobile.