The Guinness Book of Records has entered the sale of domain name sex.com for £8.2m as the highest price paid for an online site name. The deal, which was brokered by sale house Sedo last November, has been entered into the records, having... Read more
ITV’s political editor, Tom Bradby, has kicked off another round of criticism of BBC frivolity after questioning why one of its news presenters, Andrew Marr, was being paid anywhere up to £600k.Marr’s remuneration was previously... Read more
Alfredo Marcantonio has been announced as the chairman of the Chip Shop Awards Judging panel.Born in England but of Italian parentage, Alfredo Marcantonio began his advertising career as a client at Volkswagen. Inspired by David Abbott, the... Read more
The Institute of Physics has announced that its membership magazine, Physics World, is launching three digital content streams that will allow its members access to the magazine in new ways.As of March 2011, readers will be able to download an... Read more
Focus Online, Germany's third best read website, has quietly started trialing Google's new One Pass charging system.The general interest and news website offers around five features for sale each day, inviting users to go through Google's checkout... Read more
New to social media? Mark Bower, the managing director of CoolPink has covers the key FAQs.Q: How can social media increase a company’s brand exposure?Social media is an extremely interesting phenomenon, in that its essentially just... Read more
Porsche have thanked fans of their Facebook Page by putting their names on a specially customised 911 car. The car is now in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart and the manufacturer released a video to celebrate the campaign. Porsche's official... Read more
Daily-deals broker Groupon is reportedly getting ready to launch operations in China, raising the possibility of a hyper-local discounting and coupon clipping arms race with Facebook also looking to charm the East and Google developing a global... Read more
Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo has unveiled a new Facebook integrated fashion community, Uniqlooks. Members will then be able to access and organise their looks through a 'My Looks' page and the 'Likes' they gather will also appear... Read more
Bristol-based branding and web design company Jump Media has helped develop My Clinical Outcomes, a new website that allows patients to track their condition following medical treatment.The site uses clinically validated outcome assessment... Read more
Marketing agency Amaze has revealed the first findings from its five-year study into how technology is shaping young people's lives.Over the next five years the agency will work with a group of 10-15 year olds to understand how their behaviour... Read more
Today is the final day for agencies to enter the The RAR Awards, which assess agencies in terms of client satisfaction.RAR is the Recommended Agency Register, a service that collects feedback on marketing agencies from their clients and then uses... Read more
Bristol-based creative agency Studio Six has overhauled health and fitness website Fitbug.com.The site was mentioned in a Nectar health and wellbeing email and needed to refresh its landing and sales pages to improve its customer journey and make... Read more
David Johnson, the former general manager of Channel M, has joined animation production company Carbon Digital as senior business development manager.Johnson was at the Manchester television station for five years and during its boom time he was... Read more
The Glasgow-based animation studio, Axis has been working very closely with publisher Deep Silver to create a trailer for the new video game Dead Island which is soon to be released on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.Dead Island is set in the 'tropical... Read more
The Telegraph has become the latest paper to announce plans to introduce a paywall with the title aiming for a September roll out.Several digital agencies are said to be in talks with Telegraph Media Group with a view toward overhauling the site... Read more
The latest location based tool is to put a time travel spin on the successful Four Square formula with a plug in that emails reminders not of where you are but where you were.The blast from the past is intended to take veteran users of the service... Read more
Persistent rumours surrounding the deteriorating health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs are prompting shareholders to try and force the technology firm into discussing its succession plans.The move to force a “succession planning policy” will... Read more
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