Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine, has today announced it has been awarded the contract to replace the UK government’s job search platform, Universal Jobmatch. Following a competitive procurement process, the company will be providing the new service from Q2 2018. As one of the largest online government services, Universal Jobmatch connects millions of jobseekers […]
The BBC has announced that Kerris Bright, currently Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Media, will take up the new role of Chief Customer Officer. The role will take responsibility for developing a closer, more personal relationship with BBC consumers, licence fee payers and those signing in to BBC services. The BBC’s existing Marketing and Audiences […]
Global brand experience agency Huge announced the appointment of Wayne Deakin as Executive Creative Director to head up its London and European offering. At Huge, Deakin will work alongside Managing Director Mark Manning across the full client base and will be responsible for delivering the creative vision for the agency in the region. Mark Manning, […]
New research has revealed that extent to which the mentally and physically disabled are being harmfully affected by stereotyping in the UK – and the role being played by advertising and the media. The mentally disabled are the most likely to be negatively stereotyped by society (64% think so, rising to 75% among those actually […]
MSQ Partners has launched a new integrated campaign for The Electoral Commission to encourage voter registration for the upcoming 2018 local elections in May. MSQ were tasked to create a campaign that targets those who have not yet registered, or who need to re-register because they have recently moved house. The activity marks a new […]
Uncommon Creative Studio has picked up the prestigious WWF advertising account this week in what was its first competitive pitch, beating two other creative agencies to take the business. The win comes hot on the heels of the agency’s recent appointment by the UK’s leading independent energy provider OVO Energy and is effective immediately. WWF […]
Prophecy Unlimited, the CRM agency specialist in joined-up customer journeys, has completed its executive board line-up with the appointment of James Caig as Head of Strategy. Caig’s hiring follows Prophecy Unlimited’s launch last year to create a Bristol-based agency of more than 200 people focused on insight, creativity, data and technology to help clients predict […]
International marketing group St Ives has announced the merger of three of its businesses, creating a new agency which unites data science and marketing technology to power through-the-line CRM and media. Response One, Amaze One and Occam will merge to become Edit. With clients including Cosmos Travel, Azzurri Group, Pizza Hut along with leading automotive […]
Zipjet, the leading on-demand laundry and dry-cleaning service company in the UK and Europe, has teamed up with StreetPR for a face-to-face leafleting campaign focused around key London transport hubs and other locations where the brand’s target audience – 25-40 year old time-poor business men and women – can be found. Activity kicked off in […]
Hot on the heels of XXIII Olympic Winter Games, worldwide paralympians are now making their way to PyeongChang, South Korea for XII Paralympic Winter Games. Among them is Welsh Alpine skier, Menna Fitzgerald, flying down ski slopes at speeds of upto 100mph, with 3% visibility, a feat most people with full eyesight are not capable of. To showcase […]