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BSkyB’s head of advertising sales Nick Milligan and his eight year-old daughter Emily were killed in a speedboat accident off Padstow in Cornwall on Sunday. Four other members of his family were injured in the accident, two seriously. “Everyone at ...

WPP’s GroupM, in effect the controller of its various media agencies, is threatening to pull around £200m of ads from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (27 per cent of the total) if the publicly-owned broadcaster won’t agree to revised (lower presumably) ...

A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in ...

Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ...

This is an interesting ad for the UK’s National Lottery: instead of focussing on the joys of winning it shows one of the 370,000 ‘good causes’ the Lottery supports. And the ad from AMV/BBDO could hardly be more downbeat, although ...

Interesting to see that Jim Hytner – whose career has more switchbacks to it than the Mille Miglia – is once more emerging triumphant from the quicksand of a marketing career. Hytner (pictured) has just replaced long-serving Richard Beavan as ...

This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 ...

It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even ...

New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of airtime sales Mick Perry, who joined ...