Silverpop buys location specialist
Email marketing specialist Silverpop is strengthening its location-based marketing services by buying US company PlacePunch, which will be integrated into…
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O2 lures Microsoft Advertising man
O2 Media has strengthened its management team by hiring Microsoft Advertising creative media strategist Andreas Nicolaou as head of client…
News sites hit by Knox balls-up
The editors of some of the UK’s biggest online news sites – the Daily Mail, the Guardian and The Sun…
IT overload ‘stalls rise of big data’
IT chiefs are holding back the wide-scale adoption of so-called “big data analytics” in many organisations because they simply have…
Heathrow mag goes to Blueprint
Heathrow Airport has appointed Publicis Blueprint to handle its Traveller customer magazine, as well as create and manage a ‘content…
McCann confirms Meteorite deal
McCann Worldgroup has confirmed it has sealed a deal to buy independent agency Meteorite, and merge it with MRM London…
TUI call staff guilty of £400k theft
Four contact centre workers have been found guilty of stealing over £400,000 from TUI Travel by paying customer refunds to…
Lateral owner in strategic shake-up
US printing firm Innovative Output Solutions has kicked off a group-wide strategic review on the back of its recent purchase…
Brands offered ‘talking direct mail’
Brand owners are being offered the chance to target consumers with “talking direct mail”, with the launch of a new…
A complaint a minute for Barclays
Barclays racked up the most complaints of any UK bank in the first half of 2011 – almost one a…