Tourism Ireland announced its partnership with Sky Media to inspire golfers in Great Britain to visit Northern Ireland. The campaign will use highly engaging video interviews featuring 2011 Open winner, Darren Clarke, to encourage viewers to enter a competition to win four tickets to The 148th Open, Royal Portrush on Saturday 20th July, including flights, car hire […]
Even though many associate the marketing or advertising industry as a recently female-dominated world, it is important to remember that the workplace continues to be a male focused and dominated field, especially in managerial positions. With this and International Women’s Day in mind, we decided to create a list of 15 of the most marvellous […]
British Cycling, the UK’s largest cycling organisation and the national governing body for cycle sport, has appointed Omnicom Media Group’s PHD Manchester as its new media planning and buying agency. The account, awarded to PHD following a competitive three-way pitch, will focus on connecting British Cycling with UK cycling enthusiasts and driving participation in its […]
Talon, the U.K.’s largest independent Out of Home (OOH) media specialist, has expanded its U.S. coverage with the purchase of Grandesign, a U.S. independent OOH media agency headquartered in San Diego. Grandesign is the second-largest independent OOH agency in the U.S., delivering traditional and experiential OOH across six offices. This purchase only affects Grandesign’s traditional vertical, […]
TI Media, the publisher behind household magazine brands Woman, Woman’s Own and Good to Know, has unveiled the results of its flagship ‘Heart of Britain’ research for 2019, which reveals a number of newfound insights about the audience commonly labelled as ‘mass-market women’ (MMW). In terms of audience size, this market dwarfs the two most […]
UM has appointed Simon Taylor as Managing Partner for American Express (Amex). Taylor joins the agency from Havas Media UK, where he also held the position of Managing Partner. Reporting directly to UM’s UK CEO Rachel Forde, Taylor will be responsible for driving all of Amex’s media delivery in the UK, as well as overseeing […]
KineticX, the start-up incubator focused on emerging technologies in the Out of Home (OOH) space and a division of OOH media agency Kinetic, has announced a partnership with environmental media start-up Pluvo. As a result of the deal, Kinetic clients will be the first to have access to Pluvo’s unique air-purifying advertising inventory, at valuable […]
In convergence with 2019 growth plans, Encore Digital Media, the audience-first programmatic partner, has appointed Stephen Noble as Client Director. The appointment marks the second hire within the senior management team in the space of two months. Noble joins from GroupM, where he was Director of its programmatic display team. Prior to this, Noble worked for 13 years […]
NSPCC Learning, the charity’s service that aims to provide child protection training and information for all professionals working with children and young people, launches a new website following an overhaul by WPN Chameleon (WPNC). WPNC, an existing digital strategy partner of NSPCC, was briefed to make the detailed safeguarding advice more visible online. Previously, the […]
COPA90 has boosted its senior team by hiring Natalie Broad to the newly-created role of Partnership & Media Sales Director. Broad will be leading the agency-facing sales team and working on partnerships. She reports ultimately to James Kirkham, Chief Business Officer. Broad is the former Partnerships Manager at global sports media company Perform Group and […]