VCCP CX boosts senior team with double appointment
VCCP’s dedicated customer experience arm, VCCP CX, has appointed its first ever chief executive as part of a double hire,…
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Steve Harrison: Loony lefties have taken over adland
The “metropolitan elite” has hijacked the advertising industry to promote its progressive agenda, hectoring the mainstream and losing commercial effectiveness…
Industry supports launch of direct mail discount scheme
Royal Mail is launching a new initiative that offers its cheapest ever tariff for non-urgent mail items in a move…
More than 1,100 scam ads reported to ASA since June
The Advertising Standards Authority and the online platforms it oversees are in an “arms race” against scammers, with the regulator…
Bloom & Wild buys French rival to bed in Euro growth
Online UK flower delivery and plant business Bloom & Wild is continuing its European expansion drive by making its second…
ICO defends its record after scathing Telegraph report
The Information Commissioner’s Office has jumped to the defence of its record following a Daily Telegraph report which claims that,…
Warning for all data firms as Amazon faces €746m fine
The proposed record-breaking €746m (£636m) GDPR fine against Amazon exposes the risks all businesses face from complaints lodged by individuals…
Blackbaud brings in REaD Group for auto data cleaning
Blackbaud, one of the world’s leading cloud software companies for the non-profit sector, has signed a deal with data and…
Whistl scoops NatWest as business skyrockets in H1
Whistl has landed the communications business for NatWest Group, one of the largest mailers in the UK, in a raft…
Boohoo for DaBaby as rapper is axed by fashion group
Boohoo Group’s menswear brand BoohooMan has axed controversial rapper DaBaby from its marketing activity following his homophobic rant at the…
Broadband outages cost the UK £5bn in lost WFH time
Broadband providers’ claims that they were ready for the unprecedented demand from Brits working from home were a nonsense, with…
Up, up and away: Digital takeover to drive £27.7bn spend
UK adspend could soon be smashing through all targets, with the latest forecast predicting the sector will be putting in…
23red scoops Film & TV Charity mental health brief
The Film & TV Charity, which offers a wide range of financial, practical and emotional support to people who work…
Merkle hands top UK analytics practice role to Wigley
Merkle has promoted Dan Wigley to head up its UK analytics practice, created in 2019 by combining the agency’s digital…
‘Kidults’ reject hedonistic years to settle down early
The days when all young adults wanted to do was “have it large” with copious amounts of sex, drugs and…
Google marches on with AI and online shopping boom
Google might be facing more investigations than seen on the True Crime Network, but parent Alphabet is marching on regardless,…
UK launches new body for data science professionals
A raft of UK organisations, including the Alan Turing Institute, BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT and the Royal…
WPNC scoops Crohn’s & Colitis UK digital services brief
Crohn’s & Colitis UK has appointed integrated agency WPNC to develop the charity’s digital services, including a new online hub…
Donors rebound but charities urged to nurture them
The charity sector has shrugged off the effects of Covid-19 with significant growth in income and recruitment in the first…
McDonald’s creates global unit to put insight at the core
McDonald’s is pooling its data analytics, digital customer engagement, global marketing, and global restaurant development teams into a new customer…
Go Inspire joins environmental group for print industry
Go Inspire Group is aiming to boosts its green credentials by joining environmental advocacy group Two Sides, a not for…
WFH still has a long way to go before mass take-up TBH
The rise of working from home might have divided opinion, with some insisting it is more productive and others claiming…
Once Upon A Time acquires health and beauty agency
Marketing group Once Upon A Time is continuing to build its services through the acquisition of design and production agency…
NZ data chief and Facebook critic tipped to lead ICO
Fears that the new Information Commissioner could be little more than a Government patsy, brought in to water down data…
Charities told ‘It could be you’ in Lottery Fund breach
The National Lottery Community Fund, the organisation which uses money raised by the National Lottery to help communities in the…
Dutch courage: TikTok hit with €750,000 privacy fine
Dutch authorities are continuing to show their disdain for TikTok, with the Netherlands’ data regulator becoming the latest to slam…
Britons blow the lot on pets, dates and charity shops
Predictions that Brits would spend, spend, spend their way out of the pandemic have proved “sound as a pound” but…
Sky and ITV cosy up further for data-driven ad boost
Brand owners will now be able to scale up their addressable TV campaigns through a “new and improved” partnership between…
Hygiene is vital but Google stars help eateries clean up
Consumers now put more trust in the number of Google stars a restaurant gets rather than its cleanliness rating through…
Covid online surge accelerates ecommerce by a decade
The Covid pandemic may have wiped out thousands of firms across the UK but it has turbocharged the online retail…
Wunderman data strategy chief defects to Armadillo
Wunderman Thompson data strategy director Andrew Terry has become the latest agency professional to ditch the capital for the regions…
Pret A Manger hires VCCP for omnichannel expansion
Pret A Manger is ramping up its transformation strategy – accelerated by Covid lockdowns – with the appointment of VCCP…
TikTok jumps in bed with creators for native Spark Ads
TikTok is rolling out its Spark Ads format, which enables brands to piggyback organic videos from the platform’s creators that…
Fake reviews and ‘dark UX’ practices to be made illegal
Online businesses have been warned that it could soon be illegal to write or host fake reviews, while those who…
Charities and utilities shine despite dip in email opens
Charities and utilities have emerged as the top performing sectors in a new email marketing study, with both seeing increased…
Govt reveals war plan to fight big tech but is it too late?
The UK Government is ratcheting up the rhetoric against the big tech giants, with new proposals to increase competition in…
The bookworm that turned: Brits reject digital for print
The enduring power of print has once again been confirmed, with Brits ditching their digital books and reverting to hard…
Aston Martin F1 team revs up fan engagement platform
The Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team, which marked the return of the Aston Martin brand to Grand Prix racing…
Gotcha! Man guilty of Royal Mail and HMRC text fraud
A Covid-19 fraudster, who sent thousands of marketing scam text messages to members of the public claiming to be from…
Havas CX Helia Cirencester restores ECD role for Knight
Havas CX Helia has appointed former Mullen Lowe Open global creative chief Ben Knight to be the first executive creative…
Publicis swoops for retail digital ad platform CitrusAd
Publicis Groupe is beefing up its data-driven marketing capabilities with the acquisition of the CitrusAd digital advertising platform, used by…
CCTV footage of Hancock snog fuels data breach probe
The company which operates the CCTV cameras that recorded the damning footage of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and colleague…
MSQ heads Stateside as expansion drive gathers pace
Marketing group MSQ is eyeing a slice of the North American market by expanding its multidisciplinary offer to the States,…
Wunderman Thompson signs Shearer for global role
Wunderman Thompson has raided BBDO in Dubai to recruit new global creative client leader Paul Shearer to spearhead the work…
‘Data-driven ads will be key’ as spend finally recovers
Just 24 hours after Gartner painted a Hieronymus Bosch-style portrait of a marketing industry still in the grips of Covid…
Marketing budgets still on life support in the Covid ward
Anyone searching for signs of a “Covid bounce” in the marketing industry might want to look away now; Gartner reports that…
Modern Milkman tops up on AI intelligence for growth
Online fresh produce “scale-up” The Modern Milkman is implementing a new analytics platform to ensure that the right products are…
Fashion site stuffed for using ‘unhealthily thin’ model
Fashion retailer Motel Rocks has been forced to pull two paid-for Facebook posts after featuring a woman who made Kate…
Data professionals even more bullish on job security
The Covid pandemic may have decimated the economy and rocked virtually every industry sector – from marketing and retail to…
TMW double promotion boosts female leadership
TMW Unlimited is bolstering its senior team with a double promotion that sees Emma Norman move up to the role…