Commercial radio group GWR has announced plans to strengthen its marketing department with the appointment of a new marketing manager and new marketing executive.The appointments will see Elizabeth Addario join GWR as marketing manager on 17 May, having previously held the same position at handbag.com. Cheryl Bailey will join the company on 1 June as… Continue reading GWR Bolsters Marketing Team To Forge Brand Strategies

The Daily Telegraph has secured Toyota Avensis as the exclusive six-figure sponsor of its cricket orientated activity from now until the end of the summer.The deal will see the car brand sponsor a specially-created supplement to mark the start of the England versus New Zealand test match later this week. This will be followed by… Continue reading Telegraph Secures Toyota For Cricket Sponsorship

Emap Performance backing the forthcoming launch of Kerrang! Radio in the West Midlands with an extensive £1 million cross-media campaign designed to drive listeners to the new rock-music station.The campaign launches tomorrow and combines high-profile television and bus-side activity, with guerrilla marketing, street teams, stunts and PR through local media. All executions will feature the… Continue reading Emap Backs Kerrang Radio With Launch Campaign

The annual rate of UK inflation inched-up during April as rising oil prices led to an increase in the cost of petrol and domestic heating.The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the consumer prices index (CPI) rose to 1.2% last month, up from 1.1 in March. However, it remained well below… Continue reading UK Inflation Rate Inches Up During April

RSVP, the recently formed marketing alliance between Capital Radio, Viacom Brand Solutions and IPC, has secured a wide-ranging deal to promote Strongbow cider alongside major music festivals with NME and MTV.The deal will see the creation of a special strongbowrooms.com website, which will carry NME and MTV-branded news reports from all of the UK’s major… Continue reading RSVP Alliance Secures Strongbow For Festival Promotion

Flextech and UKTV are increasing their commitment to the rapidly expanding area of advertiser-funded programming with the appointment of Claire Heys to the newly created role of head of commercial partnerships.Heys will be responsible for driving advertiser-funded programming strategy by working closely with television sales house Interactive Digital Sales to help meet the creative needs… Continue reading Flextech And UKTV Commit To Ad-Funded Programming

Fast food giant McDonalds is to follow in the footsteps of Tesco with the creation of a high-tech in-store television network for advertisers.The system will carry entertainment and marketing content and will be shown on screens installed in ten London restaurants from May. The system will then be rolled out to McDonalds restaurants nation-wide in… Continue reading McDonalds Develops Instore Television Network

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan is reportedly demanding £1 million compensation from the paper after being sacked for publishing hoax pictures allegedly showing British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. Morgan’s nine year reign at the tabloid came to an end on Friday after the Queen’s Lancashire regiment proved that pictures depicting its soldiers torturing Iraqi… Continue reading Sacked Daily Mirror Editor Could Demand Compensation

Media super-regulator Ofcom has announced new proposals to transfer the regulation of broadcast advertising to the Advertising Standards Authority despite criticism that the system could be fundamentally flawed. The watchdog will hand over its regulatory obligations for overseeing television and radio advertising to a new co-regulatory system with the ASA as its public face in… Continue reading Ofcom Shifts Broadcast Advertising Regulation To ASA

Broadband saves UK workers more than 90 minutes a day according to research carried out by communications company, NTL. UK businesses that upgraded from slow and unreliable dial-up internet connections to broadband access were recovering an extra day a week, which adds up to a mammoth 52 days a year, says the report. The majority… Continue reading Broadband Businesses Save Time And Money