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WPP’s Mindshare has unveiled a comprehensive worldwide rebrand of its corporate identity, including a complete refresh of the agency’s brandmark and visual identity.The redesign, developed in partnership with branding agency Moving Brands, coincides with the agency’s ongoing global restructure announced earlier this year.The network’s branding retains the signature colour purple and the new brandmark consists… Continue reading Mindshare Rebrands Corporate Identity

A year of heavy marketing of mobile broadband has pushed the mobile phone networks ahead of WiFi hotspots as the most popular way of accessing the internet on the move, according to a survey of UK mobile broadband users by Point Topic. The study shows that the UK mobile phone companies have managed to grow… Continue reading Mobile Phone Networks Overtake Wi-Fi On The Move

Sony and Future have teamed up to develop the first weekly digital magazine to be made available via the PlayStation network.Future, the specialist magazine publisher, and Sony will produce a magazine that will allow gamers to download interactive content directly onto their PlayStation 3 consoles.Earlier this year, Future launched a monthly digital programme of articles,… Continue reading Gaming Magazine Set To Be Made Available On PS3

ABCe is launching an enhanced certificate bringing together ABCe certified traffic data with new data such as user demographic, lifestyle and media usage, gained from an on-site survey.Media owners can now undertake an ABCe web traffic audit, based on site-centric transactional data, and report this alongside data from the on-site survey, which can include country… Continue reading ABCe Launches Enhanced Certificate

Although UK online ad spend is forecast to post double-digit growth year on year, it is likely to fall as the economic downturn takes effect, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Citing Advertising Association data, the report predicts that total UK online ad spend growth will slow to about 20% in 2008 – a… Continue reading UK Online Adspend To Record Double Digit Growth This Year

The Carphone Warehouse has bid £150 million less than expected for Tiscali, valuing the broadband company at under £450 million.Tiscali had been expecting closer to £600 million when it put itself up for sale in May this year.JP Morgan and Banca IMI are still handling negotiations on Tiscali’s behalf, months after the company’s end of… Continue reading The Carphone Warehouse Bids £150m Less For Tiscali

Blinkx has launched a new web-based version of its on-demand broadband television service BBTV.The video search engine has developed a browser version of its television offering without any software download, allowing users to browse or interact with online sources related to the program they are watching straight from their browser.Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder of… Continue reading Blinkx Launches New Web-Based Version Of BBTV

A new report from eMarketer predicts that search advertising will claim 60% of online ad spending in the UK for at least the next few years. Search is set to become more and more important, according to eMarketer. In the UK, search advertising has always taken a higher share of spending compared with other formats… Continue reading Search Advertising To Claim 60% Of UK Online Adspend

Ruth Brownlee, director of the Association of Online Publishers, is leaving the group after just 10 months in the job (see Ruth Brownlee Appointed New Director Of AOP).According to a report on MediaGuardian.co.uk, Brownlee has decided to leave the job to look after her two pre-school children, saying that the role of coordinating events and… Continue reading AOP Director Steps Down

The UK government has presented Phorm’s case to the European Union, following questions over the online ad systems legality.In response to the EU’s request, the government confirmed it believes that Phorm is legal but also said that any future deployments of the system must be carried out with the users consent.In a statement, the government… Continue reading UK Government Considers Phorm “Lawful”