New Digital Markets Unit ‘to bring tech giants to heel’
The Government is planning to force tech giants to adhere to a new regime to give consumers more choice and…
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Ticketmaster rips up data breach compensation claims
Ticketmaster is refusing to pay all compensation claims from its 2018 data breach, arguing it is not liable for many…
Abuse charity seeks funds to help victims #MakeItStop
Solace Women’s Aid, the London-based charity that supports women and children who have experienced domestic abuse and sexual violence, is…
Poppy Appeal online giving 20 times higher than 2019
Fears that a lack of face-to-face collections would hit this year’s Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal appear to have been…
Markey exits TSB for Boots’ data-driven marketing blitz
TSB marketing chief Pete Markey has quit after three years with the bank to join Boots UK as CMO to spearhead…
Subscription Britain here to stay as benefits are realised
Lockdown’s role in the rise of subscription Britain may have been well documented but it looks like being no flash…
Kingfisher buys trades digital platform for UK launch
Kingfisher, the company behind DIY and trade suppliers B&Q and Screwfix, is aiming to further cash in on the booming…
Ad for ‘Covid safe’ London cabs full of porky pies, guv
London cabbies might not be best known as purveyors of the truth but it seems even they have gone too…
Nohr: Agencies must ditch hourly charges or risk demise
Agencies are “colluding in their own demise” by perpetuating the age-old practice of charging clients by the hour for their…
Direct mail engagement soars as market bounces back
Just days after it was revealed the direct mail market was bouncing back from a Covid wipe-out, new research shows…
Scotts of Stow offers brands 200m personalised inserts
Nigel Swabey, the UK’s “catalogue king” behind Scotts & Co, Scotts of Stow, Bloom and The Traditional Garden Supply Company,…
MSQ opens green agency and becomes CO2 negative
Marketing group MSQ is launching a specialist division designed to tap into growing concerns about the Climate Emergency, which will…
Firms face £1.6bn hit within weeks with no EU data deal
The Government has just six weeks to prevent UK businesses from being engulfed in yards of red tape and facing…
Top retailers fingered over ‘Black Friday mega deals’
Retailers may be relying on a Black Friday bonanza to make up for sales lost during the Covid-19 pandemic but…
Majestic uncorks first ads for 5 years with new agencies
Majestic Wine has launched its first major ad campaign for five years with newly appointed creative agency Red Brick Road…
WPNC Digital builds carers’ tool for civil service charity
The Charity for Civil Servants, which can trace its roots back to 1886, is continuing its digital overhaul with a…
Food heavyweights batter proposals for online ad ban
More than 800 food and drink manufacturers – including Unilever, Mars, Britvic, Kellogg’s and Associated British Foods – have joined…
Man Utd defence ‘holds firm’ as cyber attackers strike
Manchester United FC’s early season form might have been decidedly hit and miss on the pitch, with the team languishing…
Data-driven firms thrive but there’s still work to be done
Just days after it was claimed data-driven firms are not only handling the Covid fall-out better but face a brighter…
Durex urges ladies to get moist and lube up for funtimes
Fresh from tackling “back door” action, Durex is aiming to further shake things up in the bedroom with a new…
Not so Simples: £18m fine for Comparethemarket ‘con’
Comparethemarket might revel in being “Simples” for consumers but it seems for most the price comparison site is anything but,…
PS5 launch chaos sees online stores sell out in minutes
Major online retailers have buckled under the strain of consumers trying to get their grubby hands on the much-anticipated Sony…
Online shopping boom delivers the goods for Royal Mail
Royal Mail’s assault on the ecommerce market is starting to pay dividends with soaring parcel revenues more than compensating for a…
Two-fifths of Brits vow never to return to the high street
Fresh evidence of the threat Covid-19 is posing to the high street has emerged in a new report which claims…
Lockdown hell? Hardly, we’re all doing Xmas shopping
The UK might be nearly half-way through Lockdown 2.0 but it seems most consumers are putting the time to good…
BrewDog flayed yet again as green claim turns air blue
BrewDog is continuing to stick two fingers up to the ad watchdog – quite literally – after being forced to…
Industry insists climate dwarfs Covid in new rallying cry
Advertising and marketing companies are being urged to commit to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the end of 2030…
Tesco repents as Clubcard mailer goes to ‘Mr Tit Wank’
Tesco might have won many plaudits for its data-driven strategy, with Clubcard data permeating every corner of the retailer’s business, but not…
Geometry and VMLY&R unite for online shopping boom
WPP-owned shopper marketing specialist Geometry, formed in the 2013 merger of G2 Joshua, Ogilvy Action and JWT Action, is the…
Medialab walks off with posh petfood brand Forthglade
Natural petfood specialist Forthglade, which has been making upmarket dogs’ dinners for nearly 50 years, has appointed Medialab as its…
Apple cut to the core by new unlawful tracking claims
Apple’s claim that it puts customer privacy at the heart of its business has been blasted by Facebook nemesis Max…
Street Fighter fans facing knockout as data is hacked
Fans of the Street Fighter video game series might know exactly how to block even the baddest moves from the…
Charity marketing opt-out service plummets to new low
The Fundraising Preference Service, set up two years ago following the 2015 backlash against charities’ aggressive marketing methods, is on…
Sainsbury’s rebuilds Habitat with ecommerce strategy
Sainsbury’s is giving its Habitat brand a major online makeover with plans to close its flagship Tottenham Court Road store…
Ticketmaster preps band of lawyers to fight GDPR fine
The Information Commissioner’s Office may have reined in the headline grabbing fine for its latest GDPR ruling by whacking Ticketmaster…
Wickes hunts agency for data-driven marketing brief
Wickes, the DIY and trade home improvement retailer which this week became the first brand in its sector to launch…
Salesforce UK plans to create 100,000 new digital jobs
Salesforce UK has committed to ease Britain’s data and digital skills crisis with plans to bring more than 100,000 new…
The end is nigh: EU chiefs finally sanction Twitter fine
European data protection chiefs have paved the way for the first GDPR enforcement action against Twitter, after the Irish Data…
Brits demand trade deals don’t water down data laws
As new concerns are raised over the UK’s trade deal with Japan, UK consumers have made their feelings loud and…
Data-driven firms ‘far more resilient to Covid meltdown’
Further proof that data-driven businesses are not only handling the coronavirus fall-out better but face a much brighter future once…
Rise at Seven start-up takes on first creative director
Rise at Seven, the creative-led SEO agency launched by two former Kin + Carta colleagues, has appointed former EE and…
Macmillan revamps memorial site with WPNC Digital
Macmillan Cancer Support has launched a new tribute fund website to help donors remember loved ones while raising vital income…
Omnichannel marketing proves omnipotent for brands
Companies touting the benefits of omnichannel marketing may be omnipresent but it seems there are “omni-reasons” to embrace the strategy,…
Political parties warned to improve data transparency
The long awaited audit into the data protection practices of the UK’s political parties has unearthed serious concerns with how…
Generation Zoom now want ‘face-time’ with brands
With Lockdown 2.0 nearly a week in, brand owners are being urged to wake up to the joys of video…
DMA wades into ICO row over axed adtech investigation
The DMA has called on the Information Commissioner’s Office to be more consistent in its investigations if it wants to…
Anne Stagg nets top UK Merkle job in Dentsu shake-up
Dentsu UK & Ireland has promoted Merkle’s head of client services Anne Stagg to be the first dedicated chief executive…
Industry pounds Govt plan to ban junk food ads online
The advertising and marketing industry is calling on the Government to scrap plans for a total ban on online ads…
Paragon acquires top London creative studio Tod UK
Paragon Group is boosting its creative services capabilities with the acquisition of Tod UK (formerly Tangent on Demand) for an…
132,000 marketing jobs at risk as Covid cuts continue
More than 132,000 marketing and media jobs are at risk from the effects of Covid-19 on the industry, with a…