Northsound Radio has announced the appointment of a new sponsorship and promotions Manager.Karen Barlow has been appointed to the post having previously worked as an advertising sales executive at the Aberdeen based station.Barlow will be tasked... Read more
The Drum's editor Richard Draycott reports from the Roses Design Awards and goes behind the scenes to talk to some of this year's big winners.Sponsored by Read more
Channel 4, via its new online animation channel 4mations, has teamed up with the UK Film Council to launch 4mations Digital Shorts, a nationwide search for emerging animation talent.4mations Digital Shorts brings together for the first time... Read more
The NUJ has revealed that Newsquest Herald & Evening Times Group is to make up to 50 people redundant in an effort to save £2million. Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser of the NUJ has said that he has been informed of the savings, while an... Read more
Galaxy Scotland, the new station which will launch following the rebrand of XFM Scotland, will begin broadcasting on Saturday 8 November it has been announced.The station will broadcast from the XFM studios on Pacific Quay in Glasgow, joining... Read more
Forth Independent Newspapers (FIN), the independent newspaper publisher, has promoted Lesley McComiskey as its advertising sales director as the group gets ready to launch a new title into the Greater Glasgow area.She joined FIN in May from News... Read more
New Campus Glasgow Ltd – the company set up to deliver what has been described by the firm as one of Europe’s most ambitious education projects - has appointed a range of communications teams to support the development. The eight-year... Read more
It wasn’t much of a surprise that City AM announced that it was to launch editions in both Manchester and Edinburgh next Spring with the publisher, Lawson Muncaster, having admitted, for the last year, that he planned on rolling the paper... Read more
Business daily City AM will have a national news agenda rather than a 'parochial' outlook when it rolls out in Manchester and Edinburgh next spring, its publisher, Lawson Muncaster, has told The Drum.The London-based paper will have a combined... Read more
So, with all this chaos going on, the IPA’s Bellweather report for Q3 2008 will have made for further unpleasant and worrying reading for the marketing community as it showed that annual marketing budgets had been revised down at the fastest... Read more
Dear Uncle Carl,We want to attract some of the best young, creative and business talent to our agency. But we can’t pay as much as the accountancy firms and financial centres. We used to be able to attract talent as a lifestyle choice &ndash... Read more
Well, we adapted alright – Darwin would be proud of us. Across the country the architectural landscape changed over night. Strange structures started to appear appended to pubs, offices and factories. There the great and the good could smoke... Read more
Why We Buy, by Paco Underhill Based on the US market, Underhill examines the signals that encourage people to make purchases in department stores, drive-ins and even banks. While full of quantitative research, some of his observations are... Read more
60 WATTDENHOLM (POSTER ADVERTISEMENTS)Good images that would have stand out on the page in the job section but, initially, I found the adverts confusing – is this an ad agency? Recruitment agency? It took too long to ‘work out’... Read more
The Drum has learned that Trinity Mirror is set to launch a new production system at its Scottish offices which publish the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. It is understood that the system will be similar to that brought into the Newsquest Herald ... Read more
Arvind Salwan, director of Civic/New Media Corp reports from the launch of the new Digital Quarter on the shores of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The attendance at the launch event for the Digital Media Quarter (DMQ), hosted by BBC Scotland, at its... Read more
Television group Shed Media, which has created TV programmes such as Waterloo Road, Supernanny, Who do You Think You Are, New Tricks and Bad Girls has announced that it is to open its first Scottish office.The office will open next year within the... Read more
A new lifestyle magazine is set to launch featuring environmental news and features using only digital technology. Ecoforyou will be available in a digital page turn format avoiding the need for traditional printing’s use of energy and... Read more
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