24 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
The Microsoft UK chief marketing officer is honing its strategy of promoting the parent brand...of Microsoft UK's chief marketing officer all the more remarkable is that her role was the result of a global ...
.
Building on the restructure
The merger last July of Microsoft UK's consumer and online divisions ...
. The first to go was Ashley Highfield, the digital industry figure known for launching the BBC iPlayer, who ...
22 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is aiming to increase visitor numbers to MSN UK with its first consumer-facing campaign...users current-affairs knowledge.
Pete Clifton, MSN executive producer and a former BBC online editor ...
04 May 2012
| by Kim Benjamin
used by Microsoft and Google - AppNexus and AdEx - and assesses their potential for advertisers....7stars, to assess how two key players stack up against each other. Ireland looked at Microsoft ...
opportunities.
Google uses its own technology, built on DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdEx), while Microsoft uses AppNexus technology, effectively outsourcing its RTB capability. Microsoft narrowly emerged as the winner ...
17 Apr 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Virgin Media has pulled an ad starring David Tennant and Sir Richard Branson after BBC Worldwide...BBC Worldwide was concerned that the ad, which featured the show's former star David Tennant, a ...
-running BBC sci-fi series was endorsing TiVo.
Virgin Media launched its 'Keep Up' brand campaign, created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, on the Easter Bank Holiday weekend without seeking BBC approval for the ad ...
10 Apr 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
AOL has agreed to sell more than 800 technology patents to Microsoft as part of a $1.06bn (£670m...-exclusive licence for Microsoft to these retained patents.
AOL intends to return "a significant portion" of the proceeds to its shareholders.
The AOL-Microsoft deal is the latest in a series of patent agreements ...
03 Apr 2012
Karmarama has created a campaign for the Shakespeare season on the BBC.
27 Mar 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is embarking on its most significant marketing push to date for its Internet Explorer...It is launching two separate campaigns to promote the latest version of the browser (IE9), as well as driving awareness of the Internet Explorer brand itself.
Microsoft will roll out a UK variant of its ...
, this reinforces that there is much greater consumer interest in technology , and has given Microsoft a reason ...
26 Mar 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
the company after eight years to take up the marketing director role at BBC Worldwide....replacement due to be announced at a later date.
At BBC Worldwide he is replacing Fiona Eastwood, who has been promoted to product development director, consumer products, BBC Worldwide.
David Yarnton ...
20 Mar 2012
| by John Reynolds
Microsoft has confirmed that the BBC iPlayer will launch on the Xbox, after an agreement between...been delayed because of an issue between the two parties over charging for BBC content. Microsoft had ...
is the only major broadcaster yet to sign up to the platform.
The BBC iPlayer, which is funded ...
broadcasters objected. He said: "I can't comment on what the Channel 4 team are thinking but the BBC is a ...
13 Feb 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Helen Normoyle, director of marketing at the BBC, is joining the sofa retailer DFS as chief