Every fortnight The Drum, in association with Synergist, publishes a selection of new creative... Read more
ITV has bught a 65 per cent stake in US production company Thinkfactory media for a sum of $30m (£19m), following acquisitions of High Noon Entertainment and Gurney in the last six months.
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Liverpool Football Club’s official digital TV channel LFC TV has appointed London based Media15 to handle all its airtime sales and marketing.
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The wait is over for fannies across Scotland who will finally be able to enjoy a personalised bottle of IRN-BRU, as a limited number of bottles have now hit the shelves.
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Cow and Gate has announced a new campaign entitled “Dance Dance Baby”, shortly after the massive success of the #DancePonyDance meme.
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Now it has had time to bed in, what are the pros and cons of Google Enhanced Campaigns? Ben O’Neil, search manager at 7thingsmedia,...
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Furniture Village has selected 7thingsmedia to handle its UK marketing contract.
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Car sales brand Auto Trader has announced a partnership with digital group Amscreen in a move towards location based advertising.
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British fashion house Burberry has fully embraced Vine as part of its social media strategy, using the platform to showcase its runway show from this week’s London Collections: Men.
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The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a radio advert broadcast by supermarket chain Morrisons must not be played again, after its central claim was held to be unintelligible.
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Continuing our series of reviews of the 2013 degree shows, Ali Vermilio (pictured below), a... Read more
ITV stands to see revenues jump by up to four per cent this year as it becomes the hot favourite to host the TV battleground in the upcoming ad wars between Sky Sports and BT Sport.
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Netflix is to continue its global expansion drive by introducing its film streaming service to the Netherlands later in the year.
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WPP-owned digital company Possible has announced a strategic collaboration with Wildfire which will see a global rollout of Wildfire’s social marketing suite for enterprises across Possible’s client base.
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Vice magazine has scrapped its 'Last Words' feature which photographed models re-enacting suicides of female authors such as Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf and issued an apology on its website.
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International - 19/06/2013
In 2003 Barbara Streisand launched a $50 million lawsuit to supress an online photograph of her coastal California home. Before this...
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Google has mounted a legal challenge against a gagging order from America’s National Security Agency which prevents it from disclosing the number of data requests it receives from the spy agency.
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Research from Socialbakers into how UK brands fared on Facebook in May has been revealed: with Amazon UK, Skittles and Coca-Cola topping the chart in terms of fans.
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Just days after his marital split Rupert Murdoch has today split the entertainment and publishing divisions of his global media empire in a major restructuring exercise that aims to separate profitable entertainment businesses from the struggling... Read more
A new universal traffic light scheme for food labelling has been launched by Britain’s major supermarkets and manufacturers today to give consumers a better idea of how healthy their shopping trolleys really are.
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Following the roll-out of its rebrand, Domino’s has launched a new programme aiming to save its materials featuring the old logo from landfills.
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United States - 17/06/2013
Facebook has announced a fresh milestone in its quest to monetise its operations after revealing that it has signed up its one millionth active advertiser.
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The globally successful Coca Cola campaign putting popular first names on the bottle to promote sharing has hit a snag in its China market.
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