Planning-Inc secures £15m buyout deal with Next 15
Predictive analytics and data science firm Planning-Inc has been bought by digital communications group Next 15 in a deal which…
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Jaywing sells contact centre to focus on core offering
Jaywing is to sell off its loss-making contact centre business HSM as the group seeks to simplify its business and…
Wunderman UK beefs up team with lead data scientist
Wunderman UK has hired Publicis Media’s Niki Foteinopoulou as lead data scientist as the WPP agency continues to strengthen its…
French agency targets UK market for global expansion
French data, consultancy and digital marketing agency Artefact is launching in the UK, to offer clients what it claims is…
Stack boosts management team with senior Merkle duo
MSQ Partners agency Stack has poached two senior data executives from Merkle to expand its management team, following in the…
Harbour signs up data firm Outra to agency collective
Customer data science business Outra, led by former DunnHumby boss Simon Hay and ex-Wunderman and Callcredit chief Caroline Worboys, has…
Data analytics boom set to ease economic uncertainty
The uncertainty triggered by Brexit is set to be a major driver for the adoption of data analytics, with a…
£661m plan to make Scotland ‘data capital of Europe’
Scotland is boosting its quest to become the data and tech capital of Europe with two of Edinburgh’s universities launching…
Wilko appoints retailer’s first customer insight chief
Wilko, the family-owned retailer beloved of bargain-hunters across the land, is aiming to put data science at the heart of…
M&S drafts in first ever chief digital and data officer
Marks & Spencer is ratcheting up its drive to put data at the heart of the business – a move…