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Customer engagement agency TMW Unlimited has won Travelzoo’s UK CRM account following a competitive pitch. Travelzoo, a kind of club for travellers, has more than five million members in the UK and 25 offices worldwide. Travelzoo publishes offers from more ...

Publicis Groupe has acquired yet another agency, US based and female-led Rauxa, described as a full service marketing agency. In this case that seems to mean direct marketing or maybe CRM. Unusually it will sit within Publicis Media. Publicis CEO ...

There’s quite a battle going on between in-house broadcaster creative departments as their masters grapple with a changing TV world where subscription-based streaming is challenging more conventional forms of funding (advertising or, in the case of the BBC, you and ...

It is never uplifting news to lose a major client and in M&C Saatchi’s case the NatWest loss cannot be helpful. They need to win a few decent names plus get some decent creative work out there in the public ...

Looks like comedian Rob Brydon is going to have to give up all that free travel, food and booze courtesy of P&O Cruises. P&O is reported to be reviewing its ad account at agency Founded, which launched ‘This is the ...

Cryptocurrencies are a mystery to many of us (except Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg who’s decided he wants one of his own). Among the issues is the difficulty of trading, it seems. So Blockchain.com and agency Oberland have signed up the ever-reliable ...

M&C Saatchi is having a gruelling time at the moment, forced into a £6.4m provision over too-early revenue recognition and some assets on its balance sheet that aren’t worth what the agency thought they were. It’s re-iterated its profit guidance ...

I started in this industry the very week, as it happens, that Google launched. It was 1998 and the great digital disruption was underway. Agencies were already on the back foot, deep in battle with the research companies like Millward ...

More Rugby World Cup, this time from tournament broadcaster ITV’s ITV Creative ‘Rise to the World Cup’ – featuring some Japanese-style animation. Take it the games are on quite early, which presumably means pubs will be open for breakfast. OK ...