Interpublic’s UM media agency seems to be on a roll – always strong in the US but now winning business in the UK. Latest is Purplebricks, the UK’s first online, lower commission operator and, from time to time, a big ...

Havas CX has won the Volkswagen Group UK and Volkswagen Financial Services customer experience (CRM) business from long -term incumbent Omnicom’s Rapp (formerly Promimity) after an extensive pitch. The three-year assignment includes seven brands: Audi, Seat, Škoda, Cupra, Volkswagen Passenger ...

Don’t ‘cha love influencers? Some consumers obviously do, much to the benefit of their bank balances. Read recently that Kim Kardashian is now a billionaire – is she an influencer or something else? Big business though with a market estimated ...

Vice Media Group has bought creative consultancy PLTFRMR to merge it with its creative agency Virtue. In doing so it adds two heavy hitters: Chris Garbutt, a former global CCO of TBWA Worldwide and Colin Mitchell, former SVP global marketing ...

Rude Health (yet another) dairy-free drinks and cereals company, best known for its Organic Almond Drink, has appointed London’s BMB as its first creative agency. To date, Rude Health has used events, partnerships and earned PR to engage with consumers. ...

The UK’s Labour Party (12 years in opposition now) has something much worse than a policy problem; it has a marketing problem. This week, one of the architects of New Labour – an unsurprisingly dissatisfied Lord Mandelson (left) – called ...

Intel’s marketing agency just had a terrible idea. In response to Apple slowly removing Intel chips from their Mac line-up in favour of their own (far superior) silicon, they hired Justin Long to revive his famous role from the classic ...

Lots of people in the UK are heading north it seems with even HMG’s Treasury planning to ship staff to Darlington and a chunk of Channel 4 heading to Leeds. On a rather smaller scale Deloitte is planning to open ...

Out of home giants Clear Channel and JC Decaux have surveyed 1,000 UK consumers to find out why they value brands, in particular what creates trust. The consumer confidence survey reveals that the top three brand qualities to build trust ...