11 Dec 2007
| by Claire Foss
LONDON - Aaron Martin, creative director of Arc Worldwide, has left the agency without a job to go to as part of a restructure of the merged Arc and Leo Burnett creative departments.
04 Dec 2007
| by David Murphy
The future of prospect pools and data collection has been damaged by last month's data breaches at the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department, industry experts believe.
04 Dec 2007
| by Claire Foss
Vodafone has launched a business direct mail campaign that includes a personalised invitation for recipients to be driven around a racing track by Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton.
04 Dec 2007
| by Hugh Filman
Consumers are becoming more aware of environmentally friendly direct marketing practices but are 'increasingly cynical' about companies' motivations for doing so, a consumer researcher warned.
04 Dec 2007
All eyes are being trained on data security practices, following the revelation last month that 25 million child benefit records, stored on two discs, went missing in transit between two government departments. We explore what impact this will have on data collection (see News, page 4) and question...
04 Dec 2007
| by Noelle McElhatton
A leading FMCG marketer has called for brands to do data collection in a more "relevant" fashion. The call came as the DM industry considers the impact on consumer data collection from the loss of discs containing the records of 25 million UK residents (see story, left).
04 Dec 2007
Domestic violence charity Refuge has launched an on- and offline integrated fundraising campaign for Christmas.
04 Dec 2007
Lord David Puttnam, the Labour peer and Chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee for the Draft Climate Change Bill, has criticised the Government for adopting an 'old-fashioned' and 'slow' approach to climate change and environmental issues.
04 Dec 2007
| by Kim Benjamin
Capital One, the UK's second largest user of direct mail, is planning a more environmentally friendly marketing mix - a move that means cutting its volumes of direct mail, switching to recycled paper and investing heavily in internet communications for its acquisition and retention programmes.