Young’s Seafood Ltd. announced the appointment of a new media agency, Total Media, the behavioural planning agency, to support the brand’s ambitious three-year growth strategy, which will see it strengthen its position as the UK’s leading fish and seafood business. Total Media’s brief will see them use their deep knowledge of audience behaviour to build […]
Wavemaker has been appointed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to handle all of the charity’s media planning and buying in the UK and Ireland for a wide range of campaigns and programmes supporting their long term goals of significantly reducing the number of people drowning in the UK, Ireland and overseas. This move […]
Independent international media agency The Specialist Works has completed a management buyout led by CEO Martin Woolley and COO Parry Jones. The deal sees ownership of the full-service brand response agency transferring to Woolley, Jones and their leadership team after buying out founder Jim Lewcock and family for an undisclosed sum. Their first act was […]
One of Europe’s largest independent online beauty destination Beauty Bay has had a makeover, centred around a new powerful proposition of Break The Rules. And through the process they have thrown out the cosmetic marketing rulebook to develop a creative attitude that matches their brave challenger brand position. The brand’s striking new identity has now […]
Research suggests the advertising and media industries are perpetuating harmful stereotypes because they’re too focused on people living in London. Nearly half (48%) of those living outside London think the advertising/media industry simply doesn’t understand them, while 57% say the industry is too London-centric. In addition, more than half (56%) of non-Londoners feel that ad […]
On the eve of the new Premier League football season the Evening Standard announces a major investment in its online sports team. With just a few hours before the close of the transfer window, standard.co.uk announced some significant new signings of its own. Seven new faces join the team – doubling the current squad – […]
the7stars, the UK’s largest independent media agency, has promoted Helen Rose to the newly-created position of Head of Data, Insight and Analytics. In her new role, Rose will be responsible for leading the7stars’ newly-combined data and insight team, following the merger of the agency’s capabilities in these areas to form a unified, centralised resource. The […]
The Open University (OU) launched a new UK-wide ad-campaign in partnership with Channel 4, created by The Outfit and MediaCom. Making its debut during last night’s episode of comedy chat show The Last Leg the new ads will run until mid-September (16/09). Building on the success of the OU’s first Channel 4 media partnership last […]
Mindshare, part of WPP, launched ‘’Dooonate’’ – a tool that enables companies and individuals to donate space in their out-of-office emails to charities. UK charities spend £22 billion a year on advertising, almost half of which goes to buy digital media. Anything that could help reduce this amount without reducing the effectiveness of charity marketing […]
A+E Networks UK has appointed UM as its new media strategy, planning and buying partner. The partnership began in July 2018. The broadcasting network appointed UM after a competitive pitch. Its previous media agency was Arena Media. A+E Networks UK was seeking a strategic partner to plan and buy all media investment, offline and online. […]