17 Dec 2001
| by RACHEL MINTER
Emap Advertising is launching a trading unit to negotiate
advertising across its magazines, online and radio brands for the first
time.
The new trading team will be headed by Emap Advertising group account
director David Hipkiss, who will become the lynchpin between magazine
sales, led...
17 Dec 2001
I-Level has planned and bought a media campaign for BT across
Cricinfo.com, the world's largest cricket site, to target Britain's
Asian community.
The campaign will involve a survey - where users can pick their
'fantasy' cricket team - competitions and forum sponsorship. The first
phase...
17 Dec 2001
| by CLAIRE SAMES
VNU Business Publications is launching online careers centres
affiliated to six of its titles and is consolidating its recruitment
advertising pro-position across print and online to form The Recruitment
Network.
The announcement follows the recent transfer of recruitment website
newmonday.com...
17 Dec 2001
| by JASON DEIGN
Dominic Mansour, associate director and head of online planning at
Quantum New Media, has quit the agency.
He has joined Ludus Online, an internet games business, in charge of a
4.3m global online media budget. The company is thought to have a
London office but is not listed in the UK....
17 Dec 2001
Alison Guise, former technology business development manager at ad
sales house Doubleclick, has joined Valueclick as technology sales
manager. In her new role, she will work with clients such as Dell and
online auction service Ebay.
17 Dec 2001
| by LARISSA BANNISTER
Northcliffe Electronic Publishing (NEP) has struck a national
advertising campaign for Boots by approaching websites owned by rival
local newspaper publishers to offer a cross-publisher package.
NEP approached Boots' retail agency, Dialect, to present its portfolio
and worked out a potential...
17 Dec 2001
| by NAOMI LINDSAY
A group of ex-BBC camera staff have launched a team of 'hit squads'
to allow advertisers to target students.
Shoot You consists of a camera crew and a celebrity-lookalike presenter
who go around filming advertisers when they are giving out samples.
The idea follows on from 'Direct...
17 Dec 2001
| by LARISSA BANNISTER
Newsquest Southern has unveiled its first website for the Isle of
Wight, following the launch of the weekly Isle of Wight edition of The
Southern Daily Echo earlier this year (Media Business, 25 June).
The site can be accessed through thisissouthampton.co.uk's home page and
carries island-specific...
10 Dec 2001
| by COLIN GRIMSHAW
FT.com has introduced FT Pro, a paid-for personalised global news
and search service for business executives.
Users will pay an annual fee for unlimited access to a tailored
information service, which will provide access to 300 global media
sources containing up to ten million articles....
10 Dec 2001
| by LEXIE GODDARD
Sports.com has struck a deal with Doubleclick to use its Dartmail
e-mail serving system.
The portal also renewed its contract with Double-click for internet
ad-serving systems Dart for Advertisers and Dart for Publishers.
Sports.com sends out 500,000 e-mails a week to members of its...