By Georgina Prodhan, European Media Correspondent LONDON (Reuters UK) - Marketing group Aegis AEGS expects its results this year to be at the top end of market forecasts, it said on Thursday, after comfortably beating expectations in the first half thanks to its digital business, emerging...
Via the good folks at ClickZ, Yahoo! signed a deal with powerhouse ad group Havas. From the article: The initiatives are intended to support the company's mission to ease the process for creating and purchasing display ads, and in the process dominate the non-search digital ad market. ...
SURESNES, France, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "After record organic growth of 7.1% in 2007, Havas has sustained that trend in the first half of 2008. We are now preparing for a more fragile economic environment but our performance, which exceeded our expectations, leaves us comfortable about our ability to...
PARIS -- David Zaslav, President & CEO, Discovery Communications, will present the MIPCOM 2008 Green TV Keynote on Monday 13 October. MIPCOM, the world's audiovisual content market, will be held in Cannes from 13 through 17 October 2008. David Zaslav will discuss Planet Green, Discovery's global, cross-company initiative...
Q: I often bige on unhealthy foods on weekends, thoug I eat clean during the week. How many cheat days can I afford to have each week? Does it have to be just one? A: It depends on what you can get away woth. If...
SURESNES, France, June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Havas and McKinney announced today that McKinney's management has acquired 100% interest in the agency from Havas. "We've enjoyed a very cordial and autonomous working relationship with Havas and are proud of the contributions we have delivered to...
I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumours and so much gossip that I was afraid. Frankly, his gambling debts, his animal magnetism, coupled with his disregard for the feelings of others... His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping-sprees, the face-lifts, the...
At the Digital Publishing & Advertising Conference on June 25 in New York Presented by DM2 Events NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- DM2 Events, a leading organizer of conferences and exhibitions for the digital content and advertising community, will host The Digital Publishing...
Board Members Jackowitz, de Clerck and Birt Bring Rich Experience in Internet, Entertainment, Advertising and Marketing LOS ANGELES, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Capzles, a social media company that empowers people and brands to share their stories through visually rich multimedia timelines, today announced the...
ARCHITECTURE The architectural/engineering firm of Becker Morgan Group Inc. recently welcomed various new staff members to their team. Heather M. Smith joins Becker Morgan Group as a civil designer in the Salisbury office. Mark T. Preziosi joins as an architectural designer, with 24...
DocPoint Solutions, a new subsidiary of Quality Associates Inc., has hired Mark McGovern as sales engineer. In this newly created position, McGovern will oversee the implementation of software, including electronic content management solutions, and will serve as the day-to-day technology resource for DocPoint Solutions' clients. Previously, McGovern...
WPP agencies deliver the most results for their clients, winning 26 Effies overall, Goodby Silverstein takes home the most Golds NEW YORK -- Leo Burnett's "Wii Would Like to Play" for Nintendo's Wii won the Grand Effie at the 40th Annual Effie Awards last night...
Outlines Significant New Industry Agreements, Milestones in Newspaper Consortium, and Launch of New Yahoo! Circular Retail Initiative NEW YORK -- Sue Decker, president of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), addressed the advertising industry during a keynote this morning at the 2008 Advertising 2.0 New York conference. Decker's remarks focused on...
Leading Interactive Network to Adopt Right Media Exchange Platform and AMP! From Yahoo! NEW YORK -- Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Havas Digital, one of the world's leading interactive agencies, announce a global partnership that encompasses all of the operating units within Havas Digital. Under the...
AbelsonTaylor promoted Ben Murphy and hired Sara Alien and Ryan Jones to boost its interactive division. Murphy has been promoted to senior interactive developer from interactive developer, and will be working on a product for the treatment of GERD. As interactive developer, Alien will be creating interactive sales aids,...
PR Newswire Association LLC, a leader in the electronic delivery of news releases and information directly from companies, institutions and agencies to the media, financial community and consumers, will move its corporate offices from 810 Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan to 350 Hudson Street, it was announced...
Monsoon Multimedia to Premier HAVA Mobile TV Place-shifting Solution at S60 Summit 2008 in Barcelona SAN MATEO, Calif., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Monsoon Multimedia, an innovative digital video solutions provider, today announced HAVA Mobile Player for S60, a TV place-shifting video-streaming solution for S60 3rd edition on...
RE: "What Popcorn Prices Mean for Movies'' (AA, May 19). This article is an example of poor research and sensationalized headlines being presented as news. The author stated that theaters' markup is 80%-and the red-and-white tub your popcorn comes in...
Business News IN BRIEF *The row between Aegis and Group Bollore, a major stakeholder, should have been laid to rest again yesterday when 91 per cent of non-Bollore shareholders rejected, for the fifth time in two years, the appointment of two directors put forward by the French...
FULTON, Md. -- DocPoint Solutions, a new subsidiary of Quality Associates, Inc., focused on providing Microsoft SharePoint to organizations that are looking to expand employee collaboration and increase the exchange of information, announced the hiring of Mark McGovern as Sales Engineer. In this newly created position, McGovern will oversee the...