The EU-driven legislation designed to protect web-users from being tracked by cookies without their consent, comes into force in May. Companies with online services need to ensure compliance with the law as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has powers to penalise non-compliant companies after May.
Although he believes the legislation to be over-protective, Jonathan Erwin [...]

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Paul Seabrook (pictured) examines the latest fast.MAP survey results.
Websites – whether independent, comparison or brand-owned – together continue to be people’s main financial service research routes, each used by around three out of ten consumers, according to new research.
Also revealed are people’s main reasons for selecting the financial brands they use – they include the [...]

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Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train service linking London and mainland Europe, has selected AMV BBDO to provide creative and advertising services across all markets, following a multi-stage pitch process.
AMV BBDO will work alongside Eurostar as lead creative agency in the strategic development of its pan-European advertising. In partnership with CLM BBDO, which will take responsibility [...]

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China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer, has hired a British company to serve and audit its online video advertising in China.
UK-based Telemetry says this is a major achievement as it is the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand within China.
With one [...]

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The international Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is staging its first Brand and Agency Briefing of 2012 in London next week. 
The event will feature an interactive panel debate focused on mobile marketing strategies and tactics used over the recent Christmas period – illustrated through case studies demonstrating how brands are leveraging the mobile channel. 
Renowned speakers and [...]

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The latest Bellwether survey, published today by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), reveals that marketing budgets were revised up in Q4 for a second successive quarter, as companies sought to protect market share against competitors.  
With 20 per cent of companies reporting an upward revision compared to 19 per cent that reported a reduction, [...]

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The GMA – the Global Marketing Alliance (parent of DMI publications) – is looking forward to meeting up with international marketers in February.
First of all, we are having a party! As usual, on the eve of a major marketing industry event, the GMA will be staging the London branch of its world-famous Direct Margarita International [...]

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Love will be in the air next month as Valentine’s Day comes into view – and love is similarly all around for Japanese car giant Honda in its latest UK campaign.
Honda has teamed up with UK confectionery king Swizzels Matlow for a retro influenced sales campaign.
The Derbyshire-based sweet-makers have used their iconic Love Hearts imagery [...]

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The Dubai International Advertising Festival, which awards creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced the launch of the Wunderman/Y&R Young Marketers School. The learning programme, taking place during the forthcoming Dubai Lynx 2012 Festival, is targeted at marketers and brand managers, aged 32 years or younger, working [...]

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Tony Foggett (pictured) shares agency insights into emerging trends.
Now is the time to reflect on key milestones from the past 12 months and examine the trends that will have the biggest effect on multi-channel strategies in the year ahead.
How quickly a year shifts in digital!
In 2010, it sometimes felt as if consumers and technology were [...]

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