Armadillo appoints agency’s first digital design director
CRM agency Armadillo is continuing to beef up its senior team following a management buyout in February with the appointment…
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Moss Bros runs location marketing trial to suit you sir
Moss Bros, the under pressure suits and formalwear retailer, is attempting to regain ground lost to online retailers by running…
Commons ‘wasted £100,000 on faulty GDPR training’
The House of Commons has been accused of wasting nearly £100,000 of taxpayers’ money on GDPR training for MPs and…
Data v creativity…it’s a no brainer, says McKinsey study
Consulting firm McKinsey has waded into the age old debate over data versus creativity by revealing what everyone in the DM…
Glos cops cuffed over leak of sensitive child abuse data
Gloucestershire Police has become the latest force to be hauled up in front of the privacy regulator after being fined…
eBay launches ad targeting platform for local business
eBay Advertising has soft-launched a new platform designed to help local firms reach new customers and build their businesses by…
Crisis? What crisis? GDPR fuels more potent marketing
Predictions that GDPR would ravage through the marketing industry like a plague of locusts have been blown out of the…
Industry risks backlash over direct mail plastic waste
The direct marketing industry is leaving itself wide open to a major assault on its environmental record after the DMA has admitted that…
JCDecaux-backed platform to fuel digital poster epoch
A new global programmatic outdoor media trading platform – hailed as a new era of cooperation across the poster industry,…
Canal & River Trust releases first campaign by MSQ
Canal & River Trust has launched the first work but recently appointed MSQ Partners which seeks to promote local waterways…
Dixons Carphone and the £400m data breach question
Dixons Carphone could find itself in a whole lot of bother following the data breach which exposed 6 million customers’…
Ex-Cambridge Analytica chief in data privacy start-up
Cambridge Analytica’s former chief data officer and acting CEO has launched a new consultancy offering his services as a “data…
Sony Pictures sent to ad hell over Insidious horror show
Sony Pictures has been sent to the advertising dungeon for showing trailers for the grizzly horror movie “Insidious: The Last…
ICO’s ‘measured’ Yahoo! fine risks ‘soft touch’ protests
As the Information Commissioner’s Office knuckles down to yet another investigation into a major data breach, it risks accusations that…
Dixons Carphone pummelled as hackers strike again
Dixons Carphone – whose Carphone Warehouse division was slapped with a joint record £400,000 fine in January over “multiple inadequacies”…
Casual dating giant spanked over shoddy data practices
One of the world’s biggest online dating companies – which manages 35,000 dating sites for clients including London Evening Standard,…
WPP tries to reassure staff as Sorrell takes a battering
Former Wunderman boss Mark Read, who was promoted to joint chief operating officer of WPP to step into the void…
Sainsbury’s appoints insider as first group digital chief
Sainsbury’s is bolstering its quest to ensure customers experience an integrated and seamless digital experience across the Sainsbury’s, Argos, Sainsbury’s…
GDPR is far too tough on SMEs claims Facebook nemesis
Small businesses have won a powerful ally in their battle against the worst excesses of GDPR, with the man whose…
Lib Dems come clean to ICO over breach of voter data
The Liberal Democrats are believed to be the first political party to report themselves to the Information Commissioner’s Office since…
Sex worker claim piles the pressure on WPP to fess up
Pressure is mounting on WPP to come clean over the real reason for former boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s exit, with…
Even God’s disciples can’t escape the ICO or a huge fine
It seems that not even the Father, Son and Holy Ghost offer no defence when it comes to falling foul…
Virgin Media shoots itself in foot over phishing attack
Virgin Media has hit back at Decision Marketing for suggesting its customer data had been accessed by fraudsters, with one…
Scammers access Virgin Media data for phishing attack
Cold-call scammers appear to have accessed Virgin Media customer data to carry out a sophisticated phishing fraud, in a move…
Brands leaving customers in a rut due to cracks in data
Despite the widespread take-up of data analytics to improve marketing, companies are leaving customers in their own “digital shadows”, serving…
‘Booming’ Medialab hires ex-Starcom MediaVest boss
Medialab, the data-driven media agency, has appointed former Starcom MediaVest Group chief executive Stewart Easterbrook to be chairman as part…
Oops, critics left red-faced over Paddy Power campaign
Paddy Power has left many in the marketing community cringing with embarrassment after revealing that its controversial polar bear graffiti…
MPs lay into ‘Truly Shambolic Bank’ as TSB chief grovels
It seems it never rains at TSB it just pours and pours following an admission by the bank’s chief executive…
Oliver Group recruits Lisa Bonney as worldwide CMO
Oliver Group has appointed former Marketing Store European managing director Lisa Bonney to be global chief marketing officer, marking her…
Trefor Thomas joins digital agency Tug as global chief
Trefor “Tom” Thomas, who left Lida at the beginning of this year to “take his creative path in a new…
Dragon’s Den star is spanked over ‘BMW bum boy’ ad
A car leasing firm, run by a woman who famously told Duncan Bannatyne to “stuff” his proposed £25,000 Dragon’s Den…
‘Idiotic’ Which? urges the public to give out fake data
Self-proclaimed consumer champion Which? has been branded “irresponsible and idiotic” for urging consumers to set up fake email addresses and…
Andy Barwood quits Rapp for top creative job at Table19
Table19, the independent agency founded by former WDMP directors, has appointed Rapp creative chief Andy Barwood as executive creative director…
Whistl strikes new deal as acquisition spree continues
Whistl is stepping up its growth strategy – which already has seen it snap up Prism DM and sign a…
ICO data analytics probe ‘the biggest ever undertaken’
The Information Commissioner’s Office has claimed its probe into the use of data analytics for political purposes is the largest…
Now TSB sends mailing to man who died in November
TSB’s calamitous data governance has been further exposed after it has emerged that, in the midst of the recent IT…
US DMA hits buffers as 101 year old trade body is sold
The US DMA might have tried rebranding to distance itself from what it saw as the murky world of direct…
Lush ‘police spying’ campaign causes massive stink
Cosmetics retailer Lush UK has managed to alienate and infuriate virtually every police officer and organisation in the country with…
MSQ and Hyperactive land brief for MyBlu vape launch
Blu, the Imperial Tobacco vaping brand, has appointed of MSQ Partners and experience agency Hyperactive to launch its new MyBlu…
TSB crisis deepens as bank sends ‘data breach’ mailshot
TSB’s latest advertising campaign – in which it accuses rival banks of being lazy and taking their customers for granted…
Privacy International probes ‘hidden’ Acxiom practices
Only weeks after being rocked by the loss of a lucrative third-party data contract with Facebook, Acxiom is facing further…
Scognamiglio promotes Rapp ‘lifer’ to global CMO role
Rapp Worldwide global chief executive Marco Scognamiglio has appointed a new lieutenant by promoting “agency lifer” and current president of…
European Commission claims it is exempt from GDPR
Brussels mandarins have raised more than a few eyebrows after claiming that the European Commission does not have to adhere…
Salvation Army pools media into Edit and MediaCom
Edit, the St Ives-owned agency formed from the merger of Response One, Amaze One and Occam in March, has joined…
Brussels blocks plan for ICO to keep EU role post-Brexit
Hopes of securing a place for the UK at the top table of EU data protection regulation post-Brexit have been…
‘Cocky’ UK marketers have heads buried in the sand
The vast majority of media and marketing bosses believe their business is as productive or more productive than rivals, yet…
Carpet store floored over sozzled, unconscious reveller
A Newcastle upon Tyne carpet retailer has been nailed by the ad watchdog after an ad which the firm insisted…
Sorrell marks return with tech, data and content group
Sir Martin Sorrell has shunned the advertising market to instead exploit the “significant opportunities” in technology, data and content marketing…
Gotcha. Rogue call chiefs to finally face £500,000 fines
The Government has at last bowed to pressure to resurrect legislation which will enable the Information Commissioner’s Office to make directors…
Charity regulator tries mass leaflet drop to boost FPS
The Fundraising Regulator is attempting to boost sign-ups to the flagging Fundraising Preference Service by launching a major public awareness…