20 May 2005
| by MediaWeek
Online auction site eBay has snapped up classifieds site Gumtree.com for an undisclosed sum....as covering major UK cities including Glasgow, Cardiff and Birmingham.
EBay's international classifieds ...
22 Aug 2005
| by MediaWeek
Online auction house Ebay has secured it highest ever traffic figures and stretched its lead over...The phenomenal growth of Ebay in the UK has seen the number of pages viewed by users increase ...
visiting Ebay has increased by 30% over the same period to 10.5 million, ahead of Google, Microsoft, MSN and Yahoo! in terms of growth. Alex Burmaster says “The majority of total time spent on Ebay in the UK ...
17 Feb 2004
| by MediaWeek
Ebay this week. The business is being put out to pitch following the announcement of a review of Ebay’s creative work earlier this year. The media pitch for the brand signals Ebay’s intention to launch its ...
to be repitching for the media account. Last July, Ebay appointed former Unilever interactive marketing chief ...
04 Oct 2004
| by MediaWeek
Ebay, the phenomenally successful online auction service, has launched its first ever television...Sam Cadman, will run for six weeks with a series of 60 and 30-second spots. Simon Darling, eBay.co.uk’s marketing director, said: “The ads reflect the fun that people can have when they buy and sell on eBay. “Many people know eBay for amusing, unusual and hard-to-find items. We want to show the huge variety ...
31 Jul 2008
| by Ann-Marie Corvin
LONDON - EBay has hired digital agency Essence to handle its online planning and buying account...EBay has hired digital agency Essence to handle its online planning and buying account. The deal ...
creative advertising. Torsten Schuppe, marketing director of eBay in the UK, said the agency demonstrated ...
eBay achieve strong return on investment targets - and to take activity to the next level." Other ...
15 Jun 2007
| by Andrew McCormick
LONDON - Google has backed away from confrontation with online auction site eBay by cancelling a...Google came under fire earlier this week for allegedly hi-jacking an eBay conference in the US ...
event eBay Live. Google Checkout is a direct rival to eBay s online payment system Paypal. eBay ...
advertising from Google, although a spokesman for the auction site said that the move was simply part of eBay ...
02 Jun 2004
| by MediaWeek
Online auctioneer Ebay is understood to have switched their £3m UK media account from MediaCom...The move comes as the globally successful brand plans for the first major offline advertising campaign in its history. Other agencies reported to have been involved in the pitch include the Starcom MediaVest group and Mediaedge:cia. Ebay has been widely credited ...
13 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
following its unusual step of putting advertising space up for auction on Ebay....Smith, head of sales at Brightspace, added: “We’re delighted, the Ebay auction was a fantastic one off ...
the starting price for the piece of business at £1,000, although Ebay rules dictate that the reserve price had to remain undisclosed on the site by the seller. The company’s pitch on Ebay said: “Reaching 1.7 million 18 ...
05 Dec 2006
| by Media Week
EBay's new Christmas ad hit the television this week, continuing the
campaign it has been running ...
've bought on eBay, before transforming into the company logo
at the end of the ads, with the strapline: "EBay: Buy it. Sell it. Love
it." When the ads first began airing at the end of October ...
06 Jun 2006
| by James Livesley
Bulldog will be the only broadband supplier to advertise on eBay in the UK following a six...with eBay's media
sales house Unanimis to negotiate the deal that will see the advertiser
benefit from behavioural targeting of eBay users. Ross Jenkins, head of media at Profero, said people using the site ...
for the
right partner." The deal between Bulldog and eBay is for an initial three-month period ...