By Staff on February 27, 2013
ITV CEO Adam Crozier (left) played an unseasonal Santa Claus this morning with a £246m giveaway to shareholders from the £800m or so cash the company has accumulated over the past few years. This is a considerable achievement but it doesn’t disguise the fact that revenue at its main ITV channel was flat (its much [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2012 results, Adam Crozier, advertising, all3media, itv, online, studios
By Stephen Foster on January 21, 2013
The fashion business, by and large, has proved remarkably resilient in the recession. Some big names, Aquascutum and Jaeger, have hit the buffers but such brands always seem to live on under another optimistic owner. House of Fraser and Debenhams, which many have consigned rather too soon to the knacker’s yard, seem to be thriving. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ais london, asos, catalogues, crm, harris tweed, jaeger, online, pure, retail
By Paul Simons on January 11, 2013
The news was predictable albeit the detail about UK retail trading was not so easy. Would Tesco pull back share, would M&S turn the corner, would HMV survive? Then camera chain Jessop goes bump in the night before we’ve taken down our Christmas decorations. How come John Lewis cleaned up and posted record sales? Lots [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged christmas, customer service, jessops, John Lewis, marks & spencer, Morrisons, online, peter jones, Sainsburys, Tesco, uk retail
By Staff on July 18, 2012
New research from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and Warc has highlighted the changes that brands face in dealing with the torrent of data being generated by digital channels. A survey of senior marketers with global or regional responsibilities at major multinational brands found that many fear they will drown in data and as [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged data, digital kpis research, mobile, online, social media, Stephan Loerke, wfa, world federation of advertisers
By Staff on April 30, 2012
Online’s share of the media market is going up in all markets, to 20 per cent and over in the US and UK for example. But search remains by far the biggest sector although there are important developments under way, from the growth of mobile to the possibilities of Facebook. Here Larry K. H. Jenkins [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Research | Tagged baidu, bing, China, covario, cpc, facebook, google, Larry Jenkins, Microsoft, online, paid search, russia, search marketing, seo, yahoo, yantex
By Stephen Foster on April 23, 2012
Former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham (pictured) has made his first public reappearance since completing the earn-out of the out of home giant to WPP, becoming chairman and a shareholder of media targeting specialist Blis Media. Blis aims to help media agencies target consumers precisely through real time bidding (RTB), cutting down waste and targeting consumers [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged blis media, earnout, Eric Newnham, experiential, Gregor Ibister, infinity+ software, kinetic, media agencies, mobile, online, poster publicity, real time bidding, rtb, segmentation, tablets, targeting, WPP
By Staff on March 20, 2012
Former Publicis London boss Rick Bendell (pictured) is to take on a new job at Asda owner Walmart and will be replaced as marketing boss of the UK chain by Stephen Smith. Bendel has been CMO of Walmart’s international operation for the past three years as well as overseeing Asda’s marketing efforts and now he [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Andy Clarke, Asda, delhaize, gratterpalm, international role, kosmix, online, publicis london, Rick Bendel, saatchi & saatchi, Stephen Smith, walmart
By Stephen Foster on February 29, 2012
ITV Boss Adam Crozier has delivered some of what he has been promising with 2011 profits up 14 per cent to £327m on a not-quite-so-exciting revenue increase of four per cent to £2.1bn. Hero of the hour is ITV Studios, now run by highly-paid former Channel 4 programme chief Kevin Lygo. Non-advertising revenue was up [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad revenue, Adam Crozier, Andrew Davies, apple, Archie Norman, downton abbey, Fru Hazlitt, google, internet tv, itv, itv player, itv studios, Kevin Lygo, mr selfridge, online, production revenue, stv, utv media
By Stephen Foster on November 15, 2011
The Financial Times has had a good credit crunch war and seems to be in shape for the next one, as world economies stand on the edge of a cliff and decide not to take a sensible step backwards. This new ad from DDB London turns the Eurozone’s problems to the FT’s advantage (which must [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged boase massimi pollitt, ddb london, ducks in a row ad campaign, financial times, online, Rupert Murdoch, volkswagen, Wall Street Journal
By Staff on October 13, 2011
UK marketing budgets were revised up in the third quarter of 2011, with 21 per cent of companies raising spending while 17 per cent reduced it, according to the latest UK IPA Bellwether report by Markit Economics. But it’s still ‘tin hat’ time in the UK with 39 per cent of the marketing executives surveyed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged bellwether survey, Chris Williamson, ipa, markit, online, Paul Bainsfair, traditional media, uk spending increase
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