Tag Archives: digital

More evidence has emerged that WPP doesn’t see itself as purely a client-based advertising business any more: the marcoms giant has invested $70m to buy a 20 per cent stake in Globant, a Buenos Aires-based software business headed by Martin ...

Simon Gill joined digital agency LBi in 2006 as head of design for the web development team with responsibility for interaction and user experience design. He was rapidly promoted to creative director and is now executive creative director. He has ...

The Guardian has said it may be forced to make compulsory redundancies as its efforts to persuade journalists to leave voluntarily have failed. It was seeking up to 100 voluntary redundancies but only 30 or so people signed up. According ...

The Guardian may or may be going all-digital but Newsweek is. Famous old news weekly Newsweek was sold to Sydney Harman by the Washington Post four years ago and merged with Tina Brown’s Daily Beast online news and comment site ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell shows no sign of losing his appetite for digital acquisitions even after shelling out $540m for digital giant AKQA. The company has just completed a deal to buy a majority stake in the UK digital agency ...

Guardian digital revenues increased by 16.3 per cent in the year to April but owner Guardian News & Media (which also owns the Observer and chunks of Auto Trader and Top Right Group, formerly Emap) still reported a stonking operating ...

This is very ingenious from Dare Vancouver for Honda Civic, a test drive on the Yahoo! entertainment page to illustrate the proposition that ‘driving is fun again.’ Honda Civic Content City from thisisdare on Vimeo. “We liked the idea on ...

948 people have entered the IPA/Metro Creative Pioneers Challenge, the nationwide search to offer 300 young people employment opportunities in the creative and digital media industries around the UK. One hundred companies have united behind the initiative, including Twitter, Aardman ...

This is from Free TV Australia’s Think TV series, Wieden+Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden explaining how broadcast TV and digital work best together, why clients need to listen and why he believes the best campaigns involve “creating strong, provocative relationships between ...