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Superdrug set to unveil new beauty brand, B.
Superdrug has announced the launch of a new beauty range, B., with a full advertising and PR plan to support the brand when it launches next month. The creation of B. follows Superdrug’s beauty team...
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Lord Hunt meets with newspaper and magazine editors and senior executives to...
Editors and senior executives from across the news publishing industry have met with Lord Hunt today to discuss Lord Justice Leveson’s proposals for media regulation. A statement made to the press...
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Paid search spend on tablet overtakes smartphone during Q4 2012 according to...
In the final quarter of 2012 advertisers invested more in search ads on tablets than on smartphones, according to research published by digital ad management platform provider Marin Software. Marin’s...
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LIDA appoints ex-Adam&EveDDB managing partner Victoria Fox as managing director
Former managing partner at Adam&EveDDB (previously DDB UK), Victoria Fox, has joined LIDA as its managing director. Fox is re-joining the agency after spending four years with LIDA between 2000...
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EDF Energy London Eye appoints 2020 as lead creative agency
EDF Energy London Eye has selected integrated marketing agency 2020 as its new lead creative agency following a 5-way pitch. The London Eye has tasked 2020 with developing a new through the line...
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Time Out sells theatre website Whatsonstage.com after less than a year
After buying theatre and ticketing website in January 2012, the Time Out Group has sold it to New York-based TheatreMania.com. Both Whatsonstage and Theatremania run news, reviews, and ticketing...
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Amazon launches AutoRip to encourage take-up of Cloud Player services
Amazon has launched its latest service, AutoRip, allowing customers who bought any of the 50,000 AutoRip-eligible CD’s from 1998 onwards to access digital versions of the albums via Amazon’s Cloud...
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Former Sunday Express editor could pay £10 million for majority stake in...
Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, is reportedly in talks with Trinity Mirror, publishers of Sunday People, to buy a majority stake of the publication for £10 million in partnership with...
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BBC confirms Andrew Marr is now conscious and eating
A BBC spokesman has issued an update on presenter Andrew Marr’s progress after suffering a stroke aged just 53, confirming that he is now conscious and eating. Health fanatic Marr was rushed to...
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Met Office may call in Press Complaints Commission over Daily Mail climate...
The Met Office has published a blow by blow rebuttal of a Daily Mail article which called into question the weather agency's competency. In a typically combative piece titled ‘The crazy climate change...
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The Drum Jobs Round Up:TBWA/Manchester, Nine, Billington Cartmell & STV
If your New Year’s resolution is to step up a rung in the career ladder then the following pick of 2013’s most tempting positions thus far should do the trick. First up TBWA/Manchester are scouting...
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Manchester City tops #TwitterLeagueTable
Manchester City has topped the Twitter league table for Premier League football, the social media network has revealed. Announcing the launch of the new table, Twitter said: “We created the...
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What the world's creatives can learn from the Scots, history's most...
Every year, I do a talk that's a run down of the best work from the awards. I spend a lot of time collecting case studies, analysing the work and finding out what's so good about it. (If you check out...
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PlayStation's Carl Christopher-Ansari and agency head Paul Amourdedieu launch...
PlayStation stalwart, Carl Christopher-Ansari, and agency head, Paul Amourdedieu, have joined forces to launch trend-marketing consultancy, Midnight Burner. Christopher-Ansari previously worked with...
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Green Square appoints Naked Communications Group COO Barry Dudley as a partner
Former Naked Communications group COO, Barry Dudley, has been appointed by Green Square as a full time partner alongside Andrew Moss and founding partner Tony Walford. Dudley joined Naked in 2003 as...
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David Tennant, Usain Bolt and Sir Richard Branson return for multi-million...
David Tennant, Usain Bolt and Sir Richard Branson are all starring in Virgin Media’s new multi-million pound advertising campaign, set to launch tomorrow during ITV1’s ‘Take Me Out’. The ads showcase...
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Golley Slater London win Page Executive international web build
PageGroup has partnered with Golley Slater London to design and build an international business-to-business recruitment site, following a pitch for PageGroup’s parent company, Page Executive. The new...
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McCann Bristol appoints Julian Burrett and Mark Williams as creative directors
McCann Bristol has announced the appointments of Julian Burrett and Mark Williams, who join the team as creative directors. Between them, the pair have created campaigns for brands such as Microsoft,...
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BBC Radio 4 programme 'A Menace to Society' kicks off The Beano's 75th...
BBC Radio 4 will celebrate 75 years of The Beano on Monday 14 January with a special programme hosted by author, broadcaster and lifelong fan of The Beano, Danny Wallace. ‘A Menace to Society’ will...
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Aegis-Dentsu: the one to watch for acquisition activity in 2013?
In this, the first of our blogs for 2013, we’re going to take a look back at the past 12 months to see if we can get a feel for what the trends might be for the next year. 2012 saw around 150 deals in...
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