Bellwether gloom: Reasons to be cheerful parts 1 to 6
With the latest IPA Bellwether Report showing direct marketing budgets being revised down by the lowest level (-9%) for more…
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Get the defibrillators out: ‘axis of evil’ clobbers adspend
Marketing budgets are back in the intensive care unit – despite being giving the kiss of life in the first…
Quelle surprise: Brits stumble at Cannes Lions awards
UK direct marketing agencies will once again have to drown their sorrows with Domaine D’Ott and make do with a suntan,…
Mark Runacus awarded MBE for services to industry
Further evidence that direct marketing has shaken off its crown as public enemy number one has emerged following news that…
Industry urged to embrace climate change campaign
Direct, digital and data marketing firms are being implored to sign up to a new climate change initiative, designed to…
Ding dong Brazil calling: Natura buys Avon for £1.6bn
Avon Cosmetics, one of the pioneers of direct-selling techniques, has been snapped up by Body Shop owner Natura in a…
DMA kills off direct marketing but IDM survives rebrand
It’s official, direct marketing is now dead and buried – in the eyes of the industry’s trade body at least…
Marketing spend given ‘kiss of life’ as growth returns
Marketing budgets appear to have come out of the doldrums – in the short term at least – with the…
Fox lands top AAR role as Glazer takes on executive role
Former Lida chief executive Victoria Fox has been appointed CEO of industry marriage broking consultancy AAR, where she will succeed…
From junk mail to junk shop, Cavers opens new venture
Former creative chief Mike Cavers is aiming to prove there is life after direct marketing by setting up a “brocanteur”…