A major new crowd-fundraiser is over halfway to raising £50,000 for a campaign to tackle the UK’s toxic air pollution crisis. Air pollution is currently killing at least 40,000 a year in the UK according to the NHS. It’s responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory disease and lung cancer, as well […]
Pets are the new jet setters. Year on year, Hotels.com has seen a 70% uplift in searches for pet-friendly hotels and almost a third of British pet owners have taken their four-legged friends on holiday with them (31%) – to two countries outside the UK on average. Despite cats and ferrets being eligible for pet […]
Bournemouth Tourism has partnered with independent global creative agency Crowd to deliver a new website for Bournemouth Beach Lodges. The site promotes beachside accommodation on the south coast of England, in the style of the traditional British beach huts, but with modern conveniences for the tourists. The project followed the existing brand guidelines and used photography supplied by […]
Royal Mail announced that its MailshotMaker tool has integrated with the customer engagement platform, dotdigital Engagement Cloud. The integration means that Engagement Cloud users can now include direct mail as part of any omnichannel campaign. Customers are now able to automate the messaging and timing of direct mail campaigns in the same way as digital […]
MC&C Media, the independent media agency, has changed its name to The Kite Factory as it marks the latest chapter in the most transformative period in its history. The rebrand comes 18 months after the agency raised £6.6m in investment from private equity house Key Capital Partners, which allowed the business to invest in new […]
Jellyfish, a digital partner to some of the world’s leading brands, announced its acquisition of UK-based digital marketing business Latitude from TransUnion (formerly Callcredit). Latitude, which has offices in Warrington (UK) and Dubai (UAE), will become fully integrated into the Jellyfish group, which employs over 700 people across 18 offices worldwide. Headed up by director […]
Send Me A Sample has announced five new hires across its UK and US offices, as the world’s first and only voice-activated sampling programme continues to expand globally. Send Me A Sample’s hires include James Leung as product manager (previously senior product manager at Hostmaker), Simon McLoughlin as director of operations (previously regional head of operations, APAC at Geometry Global) […]
Brand Experience agency WONDER London, announced the appointment of seven new hires to bolster the creative team – all of whom will be reporting directly into Design Director, David Crease. As WONDER looks to enhance their creative offering, the new appointments have been a big focus to kick off 2019. The hires include Quentin Segard […]
Innovative, cross-cultural agency The Community has hired Billy Boulia as its new Group Connections Director, a strategy role that will bolster the agency’s digital and social practices. In this newly created position, Boulia will oversee and manage complex social programs and counsel teams around moments of optimization in addition to building out the community social labs offering. […]
MRM//McCann, a leading global customer relationship agency, announced that it has named Chris Pearce as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the London office. “Chris is someone I’ve admired for a long, long time,” said Nicky Bullard, Chairwoman and Chief Creative Officer, MRM//McCann London. “His amazing ability and phenomenal energy makehim a fantastic addition to the […]