Patek Philippe clocks young women for ‘ladies’ range
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Belgians rule IAB’s adtech system is in breach of GDPR
Privacy campaigners have claimed a major victory in their war against the adtech industry’s “abuse” of consumers’ data rights, following…
UK industry chiefs call for ‘precious’ Brexit data deal
Advertising, marketing and technology industry bodies – including the DMA, the Advertising Association and TechUK – have joined forces with…
BA ‘humiliates’ ICO by slashing £183m fine to £20m
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been accused of a humiliating climbdown after being forced to slash its proposed GDPR fine…
Margaret Wagner takes top Merkle job in EMEA region
Merkle is overhauling its leadership team by promoting chief growth officer Margaret Wagner to spearhead the agency’s operation across the…
Digital weathers the storm as forecast proves spot-on
If Mystic Meg and Russell Grant ever get fed up bashing out the horoscopes IAB Europe chief economist Dr Daniel Knapp could…
London’s millennials ‘are facing serious financial crisis’
Nearly three-quarters of the capital’s 3.5 million millennials are at risk of suffering the financial effects of Covid-19 – and nearly…
Unlimited hires Wunderman techie boss as group CTO
Unlimited, the group behind TMW Unlimited and Nelson Bostock, is aiming to beef up its technology and digital offering across…
GDPR fine calculator ‘makes Rubik’s Cube look simple’
Organisations which find themselves in breach of GDPR have finally been given the inside track on how the Information Commissioner’s…
Havas ties 20 agencies and 10 chiefs for CX network
Havas is aiming to prove its customer experience credentials, not by launching a new agency but by bringing existing agencies…
TSB implements Adobe to build single customer view
TSB is banking on an expansion of its relationship with Adobe to make greater use of its data and underpin…
Virgin Media has 4 weeks to settle breach case ‘or else’
Virgin Media has been given four weeks to admit liability for a major data breach, which left customers’ details freely…
Klarna ‘skating on thin ice’ over email marketing gaffe
Swedish fintech Klarna, which provides online financial services to many of the UK’s leading retailers, has been forced to apologise…
Publicis switches on the ‘Power of One’ to scoop E.On
E.On, the German owned energy company which last year became the first of the “big six” UK power giants to…
Bored with Billy or Poäng? Ikea plots buy back scheme
Ikea is bolstering its environmental credentials with the launch of a new initiative which will enable customers in the UK…
BA pulls Avios points out of Tesco Clubcard programme
British Airways has delivered another blow to Executive Club members – just 24 hours after it emerged that those who…
Nick Dixon quits Blueberry Wave for the next big deal
Blueberry Wave chief executive Nick Dixon has left the business to pursue his next venture and quench his seemingly insatiable…
Marketers offered ‘dream team’ to tackle world’s woes
Marketers are being offered the chance to work alongside an industry “dream team” – including Ogilvy UK’s Rory Sutherland, Direct…
‘Critical’ BA Executive Club members face the chop
British Airways, the airline with a reputation for leaking customer data and firing staff, has hatched a novel plan to…
WPNC platform signs fintech for digital donation boost
Charities aiming to expand their online donations have been given a major boost following a new strategic partnership between two…
EU told to block UK data deal due to ICO’s dismal record
Brussels must reject the Government’s calls for a post-Brexit “adequacy decision” – which would pave the way for the frictionless…
Dave Gurney steps down at Alchemetrics after 22 years
Alchemetrics chief executive Dave Gurney is leaving his role after 22 years with the business, just five months after it…
Oi Graham, no! IT man cuffed for PPE spam email push
The director of a London-based software consultancy, who had the bright idea to exploit the shortage of PPE by buying…
Amazon’s tech and data combo could knock out big four
It seems that Tesco’s new boss Ken Murphy has not just plucked out of the air his claim that customer…
Royal Mail eyes online surge with ‘Buy, Print, Drop’ blitz
Royal Mail is aiming to capitalise on the huge surge in Internet shopping by launching a major integrated marketing campaign to…
Agencies and brands urged to fight dyslexia prejudice
The DMA is calling on businesses in the creative, data and marketing industries to become far more inclusive, releasing new…
New Tesco boss: CX is far more crucial than marketing
Tesco’s new chief executive Ken Murphy is set to boost customer experience for both the retailer’s burgeoning online operation and…
UK data giants ‘off the hook’ over Cambridge Analytica
The UK data industry appears to have been told to “keep calm and carry on” despite repeated claims of wrongdoing over the…
Lockdown online shopping saved our skins, says Ikea
Swedish flatpack giant Ikea, which for years resisted switching to ecommerce because it knew shoppers would buy more once instore,…
Programmatic ‘boosts both viewability and ad safety’
Just 24 hours after it was revealed that programmatic spend is soaring – despite privacy concerns – a new report claims…
Nile Rodgers: I love data but failure brings Good Times
Artist, producer, songwriter and global hitmaker Nile Rodgers – a self-professed lover of data, maths and statistics – insists that…
Joint rolls out Quintain Living blitz for upmarket rentals
Home rental brand Quintain Living, owned by the group which developed Wembley Park, is launching a major marketing campaign to…
Acxiom in deal to offer ‘hyper-personalisation at scale’
Acxiom has signed a strategic partnership with personalisation platform Boxever in a deal designed to strengthen to offer clients of…
Marketers are chasing fewer jobs but signs of recovery
With the UK bracing itself for a fresh round of job losses, marketers are facing increasing competition for new roles,…
Programmatic spend soars again despite privacy fears
Programmatic advertising may still be wrestling with privacy concerns, especially around realtime bidding, but brands continue to plough in their…
Once more with feeling: Marriott wins new delay to fine
Another week, and Marriott International has secured yet another delay to its proposed GDPR fine, the fifth time its lawyers…
ITV finally launches Planet V addressable TV platform
ITV is at last rolling out its addressable TV ad-buying platform, Planet V, nearly a year after hailing its launch, and…
Very Group brings back Hornby as digital CX director
The Very Group, which last week appointed its first chief data officer, is further beefing up its senior team by…
Clear as mud: Brits in dark over what firms do with data
Industry efforts to promote data transparency appear to be falling on deaf ears, with the majority of Brits oblivious to…
John West rejects the rest and hands account to Havas
John West, the UK canned fish brand forever synonymous with the strapline “It’s what John West reject” as well as…
Wunderman apprenticeship scheme woos diverse talent
Wunderman Thompson is aiming to shake up its recruitment strategy with the launch of a new apprenticeship scheme designed to…
Germans issue 27th GDPR fine as H&M is hit for €35m
The German data protection authorities have shown the benefits of Teutonic efficiency after dispatching the country’s 27th fine under the…
From bad to worse: Blackbaud admits finance data loss
US cloud and education software giant Blackbaud has finally admitted the data breach which hit scores of UK universities and…
Black Friday bonanza: ‘Look at my face. Is it bovvered?’
Retailers looking to Black Friday to boost their Covid-depleted coffers will have to get their marketing to work much harder…
Airbnb sleepwalks into breach of hosts’ personal data
Airbnb has become the latest holiday brand to suffer a major data breach after the company was forced to admit…
Creative Race brings in Rob Shaw to drive expansion
Former Jaywing chief executive Rob Shaw has been appointed CEO at Leeds-based Creative Race, with a brief to build an…
‘David Ogilvy never wrote in the office, he went home’
Agency chiefs bemoaning the return of “working from home” have been given a crumb of comfort with the revelation that…
Quorn TV ad gets the boot over carbon footprint claim
Whoever had the brainwave to insist that meet-free brand Quorn could help reduce a person’s carbon footprint and was a…
Ex-Sainsbury’s chief to bring retail nous to Test & Trace
The NHS Test & Trace programme, which has at times appeared more like a Laurel and Hardy film than the…
Very Group recruits first CDO to drive insight strategy
The Very Group, which earlier this year rebranded from Shop Direct, has hired its first chief data officer following a…