13 Feb 2012
| by Nick Batten
and the magazine market to trade with large agency partners, which has been instrumental in driving Bauer's market ...
10 Feb 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
The ad, created by The Biscuit Agency, will launch on Facebook and Twitter on Monday (13 February) before airing on TV the following day, St Valentine's Day.
The 60- and 30-second spots, entitled 'Born Free' feature the brand's mascot, Foxy, in his famous purple suit, mowing the lawn using a golden lawn ...
10 Feb 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
The agency won the account following a review handled by retail specialist intermediary SQ ...
with a UK agency before, but use WPP-owned BPG in the Middle East.
The account signals the fourth win for the agency set by John Townshend, Kate Waters and Mark Lund last year. The agency also works with Butlins ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Channel 4 has taken the unusual step of admitting to agencies and advertisers that it will fail...In a series of e-mails sent to agencies, the broadcaster informed TV buyers that it had a "couple ...
shortfall of 8% against agency plans.
The broadcaster claims that this is owing to an increase in demand ...
transparently. He said: "We decided to write to agencies to be a bit more on the front foot."
Channel 4 ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Jeremy Lee
Costa Bingo, the online gambling site, has approached ad agencies with a brief to handle its £1...It has previously worked with VCCP Blue on a project basis but now handles its advertising in-house. It currently spends its media budget on television advertising.
The company is looking at hiring an agency to create brand work and increase its presence in the highly competitive and crowded online bingo market ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
specialists in each of Channel 4's new agency-facing teams.
These teams will be led by David Amodio, Chris ...
role of agency principal. Michele Russell has moved up to sales development leader.
Jonathan Allan, the sales director at Channel 4, said: "The agency principals were chosen as a result of a rigorous ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Campaign staff
talent from across its agencies.
Team News is expected to be created after a pitch process involving WPP ad agencies. Sources suggested CHI Partners, the incumbent on The Times creative account, Grey ...
of the Team News deal in a bid to create efficiencies and savings.
NI called a review of its agency roster ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Jeremy Lee
rise to the top of media agencies (media owners have traditionally been a little bit more female-friendly)....Watkins seems to have the right balance of digital skills for a modern media agency and will no doubt be a useful addition to the team assembled by the likeable and clever Alex Altman.
It shows how ...
brutal.
It's nearly 18 years since I started my media career. It was in the days when the agency Tommy ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Alasdair Reid
background recolonising (and thus continuing the reinvention of) mainstream media agencies. (Though we ...
of an agency that already had Karen Blackett as its chief executive, Jane Ratcliffe as its chairman and Sue ...
that media agencies have never had any trouble attracting women. At entry level, the balance between ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Ian Darby
-channel figures in a notoriously difficult market, where media agencies are keen to trade off print copy sales ...