Data theft ‘fence’ ordered to pay £109,000 to Aviva
Aviva’s drive to crack down on illegally obtained data in the claims industry is not entirely for the “greater good”,…
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Tesco rips down Clubcard Plus ad as Mel B gets Scary
Tesco has been forced to tear down a key execution of its Clubcard Plus ad campaign featuring Spice Girl Mel…
Majority of firms still can’t quantify CRM investments
The CRM software market might be booming – with Gartner recently claiming it was worth $48.2bn (£38bn) globally last year…
Give us greater powers to confiscate assets, urges ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office wants to beef up its legal and investigative powers to carry out search and seizure warrants,…
Merlin plots digital overhaul for single customer view
Merlin Entertainments, the company which runs Alton Towers in the UK as well as Legoland and Madame Tussauds across international…
Aviva steps up war on black market for accident data
Finance giant Aviva is calling for a change in the law to force personal injury claims solicitors to declare where…
Kate Howe quits Dentsu Aegis for MSQ Partners top job
Dentsu Aegis Network chief Kate Howe has quit the agency to join MSQ Partners in the new year to help…
Big Give Christmas Challenge signs up to Apple Pay
The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge has signed up a host of new funding champions, including the National Lottery Heritage Fund,…
‘Rip-off’ telemarketing firm forced to shut up shop
A telemarketing company which targeted elderly consumers to flog them health supplements at “astronomical” mark-ups has been wound up in…
Trend Micro hit as rogue staffer steals customer data
Cyber-security giant Trend Micro has been forced to admit that a rogue member of staff has stolen the personal data…
English Heritage retains Havas Helia for £4.5m account
Havas Helia has joined forces with All Response Media to retain the direct and digital marketing account for English Heritage,…
Hopping mad: Consumers in a froth over BrewDog ads
The ad watchdog has confirmed it is investigating a BrewDog outdoor campaign, which carries the strapline “Sober as a motherfu”,…
Morrisons in last ditch bid to stop data breach pay-out
Supermarket giant Morrisons is launching its final attempt to block the UK’s first data breach class action compensation pay-out today…
Stack aims to lift the lid on Lasting Power of Attorney
The Office of the Public Guardian is launching a new campaign tackling the myth that family members can automatically make…
340 fingered for failing to cough up data protection fee
The Information Commissioner’s Office is continuing to come down hard on companies which are failing to pay their data protection…
Jellyfish signs deal with French group for global push
Jellyfish, the digital agency which earlier this year swallowed up former Callcredit shop Lattitude, has signed an investment deal with…
Digital transformation spend to hit $7.4 trillion by 2022
Digital transformation may have been dismissed by some as the Emporer’s New Clothes but it continues to attract the megabucks,…
IDM revamps its courses to offer GDPR training online
The Institute of Data & Marketing (IDM) is overhauling its online courses as part of a strategy to help marketers…
Equifax brings in Amazon chief to boost open banking
Equifax is aiming to beef up its “open banking” credentials by appointing Amazon payment chief Jayadeep Nair to be the…
Unilever wilts but Kraft stays firm in Pornhub ad row
Unilever has ended up with more than just egg splattered on its face after being forced to make a hasty…
GDPR isn’t working: MPs demand fresh data crackdown
Brand owners should be forced to provide consumers with realtime information on all the personal data they hold on them…
Political parties urged to come clean on data sources
The General Election campaign has barely got off the ground but a raft of privacy groups are already demanding that…
Uber hackers face jail after admitting to 2016 attack
Two hackers are facing the prospect of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty…
ICO settlement puts kibosh on Facebook compensation
Facebook’s settlement with the Information Commissioner’s Office has effectively blown out of the water any hopes that UK consumers would…
Industry lecture to celebrate the life of Tod Norman
Family, friends, and colleagues of the late Tod Norman have joined forces with Royal Mail MarketReach to run an event…
WWF-UK creates ‘in-memory’ site for online tributes
Conservation charity WWF-UK is targeting a slice of the estimated £2bn “in-memory” giving market with the launch of an online…
Amazon ordered to axe ‘dark UX’ Prime service sign up
Amazon has finally been forced to change its “smoke and mirrors” online payments page after being found to have duped…
Facebook finally pays ICO fine but accepts no liability
Facebook has at last agreed to pay the £500,000 fine issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office over the Cambridge Analytica…
Data firms face scrutiny as parties gear up for election
The data industry is set to play its biggest role yet in driving advertising and political canvassing in the run…
M&S ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme targets millennials
Marks & Spencer is aiming to attract younger customers and boost trade in the run-up to Christmas with the launch…
Clubcard Plus ‘will save Tesco shoppers £400 a year’
Tesco has finally revealed details of its new Clubcard Plus loyalty scheme, which it insists could save customers over £400…
Aldi hands social media activity to McCann UK division
McCann Worldgroup has strengthened its grip on the Aldi account marketing business with the appointment of social media division Live…
Alan Thorpe returns to Indicia to spearhead marketing
Former Bray Leino CX managing director Alan Thorpe, who left the business in August, is returning to Konica Minolta-owned Indicia…
Rip it up and start again: £100m Brexit blitz is pulled
The Government has been forced to slam the brakes on its controversial £100m “Get Ready for Brexit” ad blitz after…
S4 Capital double acquisition boosts analytics function
Sir Martin Sorrell is continuing his love affair with all things data and analytics with S4 Capital acquiring two digital…
MSQ builds on Government wins with housing ministry
MSQ Partners is continuing its impressive win rate for Government roster accounts by landing the marketing activity for the Ministry…
Saints look to bounce back with digital content revamp
Southampton FC might still be licking its wounds following Friday night’s record equalling 9-0 drubbing by Premier League rivals Leicester…
Solar firm bosses scorched with six year director ban
Two bosses of a Stockton-on-Tees solar panel company, who caused their business to make almost 75,000 calls to people registered…
ICO ‘cosies up’ to industry in bid to tackle adtech issue
The Information Commissioner’s Office is aiming to shore up its 700-strong workforce by bringing a raft of industry professionals to…
Over 55s are ‘early adopters’ but don’t bother with ads
To many they are the smug generation, sitting on high value properties and fat pensions, with a love of old…
£241m last-minute PPI bill deepens loss at Shop Direct
Shop Direct is paying a heavy price for its reliance on financial services after revealing its pre-tax losses have widened…
Jaywing roles under threat in agency structural review
Jaywing is launching a major review of its business structure which could lead to a number of jobs being cut,…
Vodafone in dock over string of data governance errors
Vodafone’s haphazard data governance and shoddy customer service has been exposed after the company sent a direct mailing offering a…
N Brown sizes up AI for next phase of turnaround plan
N Brown is ramping up its digital transformation – which has already triggered a major turnaround in its fortunes –…
Indian call centres axed as UK police shut IT fraud ring
Two criminal call centres in Kolkata, India, which were instrumental in defrauding thousands of victims in the UK alone through…
Merkle pools data and tech teams for 700-strong unit
Merkle is creating a 700-strong team of data scientists, engineers, analysts and strategists for the EMEA region, in an effort…
Whistl eyes major boost from partially addressed mail
The push to get client marketers to sign up for “partially addressed mail” – hailed by some as the saviour…
Swarovski strikes global deal to polish up marketing
Swarovski, the jewellery and accessory brand sported by Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Rita Ora, is deploying a new marketing attribution…
The7stars nets challenging brief from challenger TSB
TSB, the company which likes to position itself as a “challenger bank” , has appointed “challenger agency” the7stars to handle…
MSQ Partners ties knot with Davis for media start-up
MSQ Partners is jumping into bed with former Blue 449 chief executive Simon Davis to open a new independent media…