£7m creative review for P&O

Following a split from Dare after ten years P&O Cruises is holding a pitch for its £7m advertising account.

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National Trust marketing chief named

Former Dyson global marketer Claire Mullin has been drafted in by the National Trust in a bid to aid the brand reach a wider audience. 

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OMD and W+K win £70m Levi's global account

Media agency OMD and Wieden + Kennedy have landed the consolidated £70m global media planning and buying and creative account for Levi Strauss & Co.

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Rebrand on the cards for UKTV's Dave

Following a legal challenge from a brand consultancy of the same name, digital-only channel Dave may be forced to rebrand.

The UKTV's attempt to claim sole ownership of the name has been blocked by the Engine owned agency. 

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New director for ITV's online and on demand services

BBC digital strategist James Micklethwait has been appointed ITV's director of product strategy and customer engagement.

Micklethwait has been tasked with web analytics, audience research, CRM, product strategy, innovation, homepage management and strategic partnerships.

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Social media guide for advertisers to be published by ISBA

A guide book to be published by ISBA on February 1^st providing advice on how to capitalise on social media is to be offered to British advertisers.

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Top 50 UK clients targeted by Swedish digital agency

Swedish agency Keybroker, one of Scandinavia's biggest search marketing agencies is to open a UK office, vowing it will eliminate what it calls the “tax on ad spend” model.

Keybroker boasted over £280m in online sales in 2010, accounting for more than 6% of total e-commerce spend in Sweden. Some of the agencies sixty-five clients include Ebookers, IKEA and American Express who work on a “success fee” basis.

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12.5% hike in outdoor revenue over 2010

According to figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association the fourth-quarter of 2010 saw outdoor ad revenue rise 6.9% year-on-year, with total annual revenue of 12.5%.

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ITV appoints director to promote own programmes

ITV has appointed Jean-Philippe Randisi to its studios division in a bid to boost revenue in the UK and internationally by capitalising on its own programmes. Randisi will report to Maria Kyriacou, ITV's global entertainment managing director.

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Nokia admits it's “time to change” as profits drop 21%

Following a drop of 21% net profit in the final quarter of 2010, Nokia has said it is now “time to change faster” to compete with the ever-expanding iPhone and Android market.

For the 4^th quarter of 2010 net profit sat at £643m, tumbling down from £818m in the final quarter of 2009.

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E-commerce pitch kicks off for Morrisons

The UK's fourth largest supermarket chain Wm Morrisons is searching for a digital agency to develop its marketing and strategic activity, ahead of plans for e-commerce expansion throughout 2011.

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Google's Matt Britin to join Sainsbury's board

Google UK and Ireland's managing director Matt Brittin has beed appointed to Sainsbury's board.

Brittin was appointed Google's director of UK operations in March 2009 after Dennis Woodside was promoted to vice president of US operations. Brittin joins the supermarket chain as a non-executive director.

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Call for clarity on government growth plans

Greater clarity on how the government intends to stimulate new jobs and growth has been called for by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) chief economic adviser Dr John Philpott.

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European expansion for Google

The search giant announced it is to take on more than 1,000 staff amid European expansion plans.

The majority of new employees will be based in London, with the remainder in Munich and Zurich and will be deployed to sales and technology.

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Healthcare team growth continues at RMG

RMG, the executive search and specialist recruitment consultancy has appointed Matthew Baxter as a senior consultant to bolster its healthcare team following a string of recent appointments to the team. Baxter is tasked with senior and middle management recruitment.

Baxter's appointment follows his four-year stint with Guided Solutions, the medical sales and marketing specialists where he worked with Focus Management Consoltants on senior level retained mandates.

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Sonru enters UK job market via specialist myjobgroup.co.uk

At the HR Directors Summit in Birmingham today, Sonru announced a reseller agreement with the UK's largest network of regional job boards had facilitated their entry into the UK market.

Irish-based Sonru has already witnessed its technology simplify the recruitment process for blue chip companies and agencies across the UK and now plans to capitalise upon myjobgroup's network of job boards offering its conferencing tool to UK recruiters.

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Consultancies limber up for corporate reputation battle

Hanover and Weber Shandwick have drafted in experts to defend their clients against campaigners.

As aggressive campaigning has brought blue-chip clients under threat, British PR agencies are taking on new senior hires to bolster their corporate reputation offerings.

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Chris Maples leaves Microsoft Advertising

Commercial director for Microsoft Advertising Chris Maples has exited the software giant with immediate effect to spend more time with his family.

Maples joined as managing director of Microsoft's network business in May 2007 from his previous post with Maiden Outdoor (Titan).

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Heart FM to air Thomson holiday to a T campaign

Travel operator Thomson is for the first time set to use radio to promote its post-Christmas campaign, 'Your holiday to a T'.

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London 2012 deal for Visa and News International

News International has negotiated a deal with Visa Europe that will see its papers become the “official newspapers” British Olympic and Paralympic teams in the 2012 Games.

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London Eye campaign kicked off with EDF Energy

A campaign supporting the inauguration of EDF Energy's new three-year partnership with the London Eye has been launched by Euro RSCG and MPG Media Contacts.

MPG Media has also agreed partnerships with ITV's Daybreak and Capital FM.

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New B2B marketing chief for Barclaycard

Xerox's global brand marketer Richard Wergan has been tasked with developing Barclaycard's businesses to businesses division.

Wergan will hold responsibility for strategic marketing to the bank's business customers as the marketing director of the global business solutions unit.

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New chairs for strategy groups and ethnic diversity appointed by IPA

Amelia Torode and Saad Saraf have been appointed chairmen of IPA strategy and ethnic diversity groups, respectively.

Saraf is the chief executive and founder of Media Reach, the multicultural communications agency.

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Print campaign for Dixons tops 2010 Gunn Report

The 2010 Gunn Report has crowned M&C Saatchi's print campaign for Dixons entitled 'Sandals/Middle England/Piers'.

The ads were recognised at Campaign’s Big Awards last year and were described as “a clear winner” in the report. The IAA business launch at The Mandarin Oriental, London saw the results of the Gunn Report announced.

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NHS 111 service launch appointed to DLKW Lowe

DLKW Lowe has been appointed by the Department of Health to handle the creative business for the launch of the phone service NHS 111, following a pitch against M&C Saatchi and VCCP.

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UK agency jobs recovering IPA reveals

Following record-breaking job losses is 2009, UK employment levels are stabilising with employees in IPA member agencies increasing 1.1% to 18,843 throughout 2010.

According to the IPA census, 2009 saw a decline of 7.4%, the biggest decrease since 1993.

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Tellyville appointed Autoglass TV account

Radioville's new creative division Tellyville has been appointed, without a pitch, Autoglass's £9m TV ad account.

At the beginning of the year the relationship between the car windscreen repair company and Radioville was extended to cover TV as well as radio.

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Premier Foods sells Quorn

Meat free brand Quorn has been sold by Premier Foods for £205m to a private equity firm.

Intermediate Capital Group and Exponent Private Equity bought Quorn and sister brand Couldron after months of speculation.

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25% boost in online spending after consumers driven online by snow

According to the UMRG Cepegemini e-Retail Sales Index, there was an increase of 7% in November and a further increase of 25% when compared with sales in the same period last year.

Alcohol and clothing had the greatest growth over the festive season, up 36% and 40% respectively.

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Industry prompts improvement of data on mobile apps

Sainsbury's, Tesco and Unilever voiced concerns at a not-for-profit data standards organisation GS1 event, that the upsurge of bad data available through mobile applications is damaging their brands.

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Price war hots up with Tesco press ads

Tesco and Asda have launched tit-for-tat ad campaigns, intensifying the war between the two supermarket giants.

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In-store beauty spas are to be opened in John Lewis department stores in a bid to “enhance” the shopping experience.

The company has said the idea forms part of its long-term expansion strategy and is in response to customer demand.

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Google co-founder Page returns as CEO

The search giant sees co-founder Larry Page take over as chief executive in April.

As Google aims to boost its position amid competition from fast-growing rivals such as social networking giant Facebook, a senior executive overhaul has been called to “streamline decision making”.

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Facebook app for non-smartphones launched

A mobile app designed to work specifically on 'feature' phones has been launched by the social networking site in an effort to increase popularity in emerging markets.

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HMV gets music industry backing

Music industry executives are lending their “full support” to HMV after concerns over its relationship with suppliers sparked a drop in the chain's share price, with shares falling 3% yesterday.

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Pret a Manger in bid to shake McDonald's association

The chain plan to launch a communications drive in an attempt to change the perception that the company is still part owned by McDonald's.

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Power cut for Burger King

Marketing director for Burger King sarah Power is set to move on from the fastfood giant.

Power initially took on the marketing director position in 2008, clocking up a total of four years with the company. It has not been confirmed where or if she has a position to move to.

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Executive team and 2011 commitments announcement from Channel 4

Channel 4 boss David Abraham has appointed Gill Pritchard director of audience technologies and insight, completing his executive team.

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Three ad account win for Wieden and Kennedy

Mobile phone company Three has handed its £18m ad account to Wieden and Kennedy following their pitch which launched last October.

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Sustainable business foundations for PepsiCo

In an effort to radically reduce its affect on the environment PepsiCo UK has announced plans to convert all of its packaging renewable, bio-degradable or recyclable.

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New communications chief for ITV

Mary Fagan has been appointed the communications and corporate affairs director role.

Fagan, former Royal Mail communications director will hold responsibility for ITV’s programme publicity teams, its public affairs operation and corporate communications.

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Uncertainty for 2011 sees 5.4% drop for marketing budgets

According to the IPA/BDO Bellweather survey, marketing budgets in the final quarter of 2010 were slashed amid uncertainty of economic recovery in 2011, with drops of 5.4% reported making for the worst budget cuts in a year.

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Bargeda contracted part-time at MediaCom

MediaCom have landed a last minute deal that will see digital managing partner Stefan Bargeda contracted part-time at WPP on top of his position as managing director at a mobile start-up from April.

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IPA President: ‘Students loans are a marketing catastrophe’

According to vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK and president of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Rory Sutherland, the decision taken by the coalition Government to increase tuition fees to £9,000 is a “marketing catastrophe”.

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Social media users complain less, but expect faster response

According to findings from the IAB and Lighstpeed Research, a minority of consumers complain about brands via social media.

The survey revealed the most popular channel for complaints was online (44%), followed by phone (36%)and letter (22%). Although the web was the most popular medium, just 2% complained via Twitter, 8% by Facebook and 8% no forums.

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£92m DFS media account up for pitch

With an annual spend in excess of £92m, DFS Furniture is eighth biggest advertiser in the UK and its media buying account is now up for grabs.

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McLaren appoints marketing chief

Sales and marketing for the upcoming high performance sports car range has been appointed to Greg Levine. Levine will develop customer and retailer programmes and oversee “commercially impactful marketing”.

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Moneysupermarket £25m ad review

Moneysupermarket is calling for a review of its £25m ad account just one week after its latest campaign featuring John Prescott and Jeward was launched.

The appointment of Prescott followed his notorious punch-up with a protester during the 2001 General Election campaign, which we covered last week here

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Bingjacker! Facejacker and Bing join up for viral campaign

The star of Channel 4’s comedy Facejacker will today appear in a new web TV campaign to promote Microsoft search engine Bing.

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M&C Saatchi appointed to 100m global marketing campaign for VisitBritain

As part of a Government initiative to finance tourism in the UK with leading businesses, VisitBritain has awarded M&C Saatchi the £100m global marketing contract.

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Marketing team boost for National Trust

Several new roles have been created in the National Trust’s marketing team in a bid to boost brand awareness.

The marketing department is being rebuilt to move focus toward specific channels and will be overseen by an account management and planning team.

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Saw 3D ad banned before 9pm

A post-watershed restriction has been imposed following a child’s complaint that the ad for the horror film was “distressing”.

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Half of MySpace staff to go

An announcement from struggling social network MySpace is expected later today in a bid by News Corp to help the company appeal to buyers.

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Vauxhall to sponsor England

Vauxhall Motors have been confirmed by the football Association as the official sponsors of the national team.

The 2012 European Championships and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil will be covered by the three-and-a-half year contract.

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Prius to become Toyota sub-brand

The Prius hybrid range is to be expanded in a bid by Toyota to boost their green credentials.

Two new models were introduced this week at the Detroit Motor Show and it is expected that the brand will follow lead of luxury car Marque Lexus, which is separate from the parent brand.

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M & S boast winter sales increase

A star-studded ad campaign featuring X-Factor judge Dannii Minogue has helped boost Marks and Spencer sales over the Christmas period, despite weather disruptions.

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Sainsbury’s Christmas ads out-perform rivals

Despite spending the least on its Christmas advertising campaign, Sainsbury’s supermarket has outperformed rival chains Morrisons, Asda and Tesco according to figures from Nielsen.

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Match launches industry first with documentary ads

A documentary style ad campaign is to be launched by dating company Match.com in a bid to promote the matchaffinity.com relationship site.

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Debenhams down-under

Channel 5 Aussie favourite Neighbours is to be sponsored by Debenhams department store in a bid to boost the company’s profile among the soap’s audience.

Debenhams this week attributed increased Christmas sales to strong online growth despite decreased overall winter sales.

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Almost half of all Tweets made via mobile phone

According to Twitter CEO Dick Costello, 40% of all tweets are made via mobile phone.

Costello added that last January the figures for all Twitter posts via a mobile device were 25%, marking a distinct uptake of the site for mobile users which he suggested was down to the launch of official Twitter applications for Android, Blackberry and iPhones.

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New regional MD for Publicis Modem

Thierry Vandewalle has been appointed managing director of Shanghai-based Publicis Modem Asia-Pacific.

As well as taking on the position of MD for Asia-Pacific, Vandewalle will also adopt the role of MD for Publicis Modem China with a view to focusing on the rapidly expanding Chinese market.

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WeightWatchers ProPoints scheme prompts Heinz update

The WeightWatchers from Heinz food range has been redesigned following the overhaul of the slimming programme’s diet scheme.

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Co-Op and Thomas Cook merger prompts OFT review

The merging of high street travel operations from Thomas Cook and the Co-Op are facing investigation by the Office of Fair Trading.

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New UK board for Tesco ahead of new CEO

New commercial directors for food and non food divisions have been appointed as part of the management reshuffle.

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Lock up your eggs! John Prescott to punch more stuff on TV

John Prescott has been called in to star in Moneysupermarket.com’s latest TV advert.

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Logo dropped from Starbucks name

As Starbucks prepares to expand its product range the company name is dropped from the logo.

The image of the green mermaid, one encircled by the Starbucks name is to be enlarged.

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Firefox topples rival Explorer in Europe

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been overtaken for the first time by Mozilla Firefox as Europe’s browser of choice.

According to figures from Statcounter, the web analytics firm, Firefox took 38.1% of the European market in December, while Explorer fell to 37.5%.

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Nuts marketing head appointed

A new marketing head and publisher have been appointed by IPC Media’s Inspire Division in a bid to recover circulation losses.

IPC’s weekly men’s magazine Nuts circulation recorded an average circulation of 147,134 in the period January to June last year, a drop of 16.8% when compared with 176,835 in the previous period.

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Shares and sales slump force 60 HMV store closures

Weak profits, falling sales and problems complying with the terms of a bank loan have caused shares in troubled retailer HMV to plummet 24%, with the music and books retailer saying the entertainment market remained weak.

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Woolworths account added to Very.co.uk by VCCP

The Woolworths advertising account has been shifted – without a pitch – from The Brooklyn Brothers to VCCP by Shop Direct Group.

Leo Burnett takes care of VCCP’s Littlewoods brand, while VCCP looks after Shop Direct’s Very.co.uk brand.

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Amsterdam Worldwide renounce Onitsuka Tiger and Asics account

“Strategic, creative and financial differences” were cited as the reason for resignation by the Dutch creative agency from the sports brands accounts.

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Omnicom overtaken as WPP becomes biggest marketing group

Omnicom was squeezed out of the top spot when WPP registered the largest revenue for a publicly listed global marketing services company last year.

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