22 Dec 1999
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Media Week would like to wish all its readers a happy Christmas and prosperous new millennium. Normal service on Media Week Online will resume on January 4, 2000. The next issue of Media Week will be published on Friday January 7, 2000. ...
20 Dec 1999
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in 1997. Shute told Media Week Online that he would be “taking January and February off and then start looking for a new business or media owner role”. New business for CIA will be divided up among the agency ...
20 Dec 1999
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Justin Walters, who resigned as head of new media at Guardian Newspapers in October, is to set up his own business to business internet venture. Walters is launching bEurope in conjunction with Emma Lewis, former strategic development director at business to business publisher Miller Freeman. The two ...
16 Dec 1999
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Media on media...It seems your typical media exec reads The Mirror, listens to Radio 3 on the way to work and thinks heat is the only magazine they’ll ever really need. Only kidding. In fact Media Week’s annual survey of what the media industry really thinks about what’s hot and what’s not, turned up a wide range ...
16 Dec 1999
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BP Amoco is to hand its £124 million global media account to MindShare Worldwide, early next year ...
. UK media incumbent MediaCom TMB was not asked to repitch for the account. “We’re progressively moving our ad business into the WPP Group and anticipate that MindShare will start doing media towards ...
16 Dec 1999
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into “media neutral” sector-based units. The company is splitting Emap Radio’s sales division into two teams – one will handle planning and the other accounts. The accounts section will liaise with media agencies ...
enable the sales team to be better prepared for selling across different media. The changes will only ...
16 Dec 1999
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an offer for a share in beeb.com, the BBC’s commercial web property. Media Week has learnt that Flextech ...
Interactive, the company’s new media arm, would use the beeb.com portal, which includes content from Top ...
16 Dec 1999
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company United News & Media and CarltonCommunications. The four UK divisions to be sold are food, sport ...
15 Dec 1999
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Steven Cain, chief executive of Carlton Communications, is set to leave the company at the end of January. His departure follows the proposed merger between Carlton and United News & Media, which ...
was marketing director, told Media Week: “I was brought in as chief executive with a brief to make more ...
14 Dec 1999
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The Media Edge has been handed the multi-million pound launch task for online mortgage broker, E-Loan. The agency will work alongside its creative sister agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R with immediate effect. Several agencies including New PHD also pitched for the account. No spend has been confirmed ...