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Founder Mark Cridge to exit Glue and Aegis Isobar network

Mark Cridge, the global managing director of Aegis Media's Isobar network and founder of Glue, has decided not to return to the business following a six-month sabbatical.

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Campaign Viral Chart: Abercrombie's 'hot guys' take top spot

Abercrombie & Fitch hit the top of the chart this week after a video featuring their "hottest guys' lip-syncing 'Call Me Maybe' by Carly-Rae Jepson was shared nearly half a million times.

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Morrisons and Waitrose claim highest proportion of 'grocery groupies'

Morrisons and Waitrose are the supermarkets that boast the largest proportion of "grocery groupies", according to research from media agency Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG).

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BlackBerry to make 5,000 job cuts and delays phone launch

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is to axe 5,000 jobs from its global workforce as it reveals a further delay of the launch of its next generation of smartphones.

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Unruly opens social video lab

Unruly, the UK-based social video promotion and distribution specialist, has launched a "social video lab", which its claims will be a boon to brands and agencies.

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Trading places: This week's people moves

Mel Cruickshank is poached by Wunderman and Helen Kellie steps down as chief marketing officer of BBC Worldwide in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing and media.

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Google launches Chrome app for iPhone and iPad

Google has launched the mobile version of its Chrome browser for the iPad and iPhone at its developers conference in California.

 

Cannes 2012: AOL's Rene Rechtman warns Generation Social don't like ads

Generation Social, the natives of social media, are actively rejecting all kinds of digital advertising, and brands and agencies should be focused on creating shareable, high-impact content if they want to engage with them, says AOL's René Rechtman.

 

Innocent gives away Olympic tickets in 'tweet for a seat' campaign

Innocent, the official smoothie and juice of the London 2012 Games, is giving away tickets to different Olympic events as part of a two-week Twitter campaign called 'Tweet For A Seat'.

 

Merlin Inkley to leave Channel 4

Merlin Inkley, Channel 4's head of airtime management, is leaving the broadcaster after 20 years.

 
 

Media agencies deliver their verdict on the News Corp split

News Corporation's decision to split into two divisions has today (28 June) prompted fevered speculation about the motives behind the move. Here media executives offer their take on today's news.

 

PHD lands bulk of Unilever media planning

Unilever is set to appoint PHD to handle the bulk of its £3 billion global communications planning business.

 

'I'm irritated with anodyne, Eurotrash advertising' says Suzuki marketing chief

Suzuki may be a challenger brand with a 1.2% share of the UK automotive market, but it has big ambitions.

 

Appointment to View: Making of the Tower Bridge Olympic rings (time lapse)

Innovision, the agency behind the Olympic rings hoisted on to Tower Bridge yesterday (28 June), has released time lapse footage of its creation.

 
 

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On the bottom line

 

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On ethical marketing

 

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Sssshhhhhh!!! It’s the Secret Service!

 
 
 
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Age is just a number?

 
 
 
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It comes before a fall

 
 
 

Facebook's 4 Simple Steps To Unlock Your Full Business Value (Webcast)

- Fully leverage your Facebook business page and ad products to connect ...

 

Getting Personal: 5 Steps To Create Lasting, Lucrative Customer Connections (Expert Reports)

We are dealing with a growing media landscape that’s becoming nois...

 

What Could Affiliates Do For You? Top Tips To Up Your Traffic And Sales (Expert Reports)

So, affiliate marketing, it's been around for a while and has driven gre...

 
 

Events

 

Social Media for Business

  • The Cambridge College of Enterprise
  • Date: Tue 17 Apr 2012 - Thu 02 Aug 2012
  • Venue: United Kingdom More
 
 

CIPR: Assert yourself

  • Chartered Institute of Public Relations
  • Date: Tue 03 Jul 2012 - Tue 03 Jul 2012
  • Venue:

    52-53 Russell Square, London

    WC1B 4HP

    More
 
 

Social Customer & Social Loyalty

  • 149 Glenarm Road
  • Date: Tue 03 Jul 2012 - Tue 03 Jul 2012
  • Venue: Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London EC1A 9PT More
 
 
 


Brand barometer: Women's magazines, which one is most prominent online?

Glamour and Elle are the most prominent, followed by Cosmopolitan

 

Zeebox on a mission to revolutionise TV viewing

The co-founder of the social TV app Ernesto Schmitt believes it can change the TV advertising model, Katherine Levy reports.

 

Brand builder: The Huffington Post

After an underwhelming first year in the UK, the site has readied a fresh campaign.

 

Do shock tactics work in retail ads?

Has Harvey Nichols damaged its brand or are its ads enlivening a bland sector, John Tylee wonders.

 

Why We're Loving ... Jason Delahunty senior producer, Alex Mathieson director, 4Creative

WHY: E4 is promoting its new musical-comedy sitcom, The Midnight Beast, with a live ad filmed in front of 100 fans today (Thursday).

 

All about ... Cannes Media Lions

Being on the judging panel was an experience, according to Alex Altman.

 
 

The Olympic marketers: why we sponsored London 2012; what we've learned; what we'd do differently

After years of work, the moment of truth is almost upon Olympic sponsor brands. CBS Outdoor partnered with Marketing to bring together senior marketers to talk about what they've learned from their involvement with the greatest sports show on earth.

 

The Health Lottery's Martin Hall: 'Innovate to accumulate'

The Northern & Shell-owned brand has a plethora of plans in place as it looks to challenge the dominance of the National Lottery.

 

Is media owner data sound?

Can agencies trust data supplied by media owners, Alasdair Reid asks.

 

The changing gamer

Heavy gamers are 49% more likely than the average British adult to believe that advertising helps them make the best purchases, writes Alice Dunn, marketing executive, Kantar Media.

 

All you need is love to make people like your brand more 1

It's not the rational responses that make consumers like brands, it's the emotional ones, Leo Rayman argues.

 

Social TV: Everybody's talking about it 1

A third of adults say they have visited a social media site while watching a TV show, writes Mat Riches, associate director, Kantar Media Custom.

 
 

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