Johnston Press has that Stephen van Rooyen is to become the newest recruit to its board when he joins the media group on 1 June as a non-executive director.
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Bauer Media has today announced the promotion of Abby Carvosso to the role of group managing director, where she will assume responsibility for all London brands, including heat and Closer.
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Measuring by click-through rates should be a thing of the past, with “attention” the new currency for brand marketers, according to AOL’s digital evangelist David Shing.
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International - 22/05/2013
Stella Artois is to roll out a new campaign for its Cidre brand directed by Wim Wenders, who was behind the classic love story Wings of Desire.
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The Scottish Government has announced a £7m funding package to improve the digital connectivity of businesses, enabling them to better adapt to new technology.
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Steve Wilhite, created of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), yesterday announced that he was annoyed that people failed to pronounce the name of the file format correctly.
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International - 22/05/2013
Following the global merger of Digitas and LBi in February, DigitasLBi and Razorfish have revealed new, agency-specific international leadership.
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Global Radio has been ordered to sell-off eight of its channels in seven areas by the Competition Commission after it judged that a £70m acquisition of GMG Radio last year breached competition rules.
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Drupal technology company CTI Digital appointed Dave Beswick to the post of resource manager after a year at the company, moving from his role as project manager of publisher development.
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New beauty service Beauteco Box has launched with branding, sustainable packaging and an ecommerce website designed by Creative Spark.
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Almost a quarter of teenagers in the US now hold a Twitter account, significantly more than the 16 per cent figure for the wider population - according to a new Pew Research Centre report.
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North America - 22/05/2013
The University of Glasgow has unveiled two lots, for the provision of simple graphic design services and the provision of complex graphic design services.
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Pinterest has announced an update to its content services which will see the site partner with individual brands to display information such as recipes, pricing information and reviews instead of just linking back to the original source.
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International - 22/05/2013
Music streaming service Spotify has introduced its own top 50 chart in a move to showcase its most popular tracks by region.
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International - 22/05/2013
French concerns over the encroachment of English upon their daily lives have been scotched by French daily Liberation, after the left-leaning newspaper printed its entire front page ‘in the language of Shakespeare’.
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City of Bristol College has put out a tender for its marketing and online communications framework valued at up to £800,000.
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The medium, or media, has become "more important" than the message, ushering in a new era in which creative and media can unite more harmoniously, according to WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell.
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International - 22/05/2013
Sydney’s Pixolut agency has launched its Rugby Rewards competiton for Qantas and Australian Rugby, with a Facebook campaign seeking the Ultimate Fan.
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