Dublin/London : APN News & Media Limited in which Independent News & Media PLC has a 32.2% shareholding, has announced that CEO, Brendan Hopkins, has advised that he wishes to leave the Company at the end of the year. Mr. Hopkins has been Chief Executive of APN since August 2002, having been seconded to that [...]
Sunnyvale :In continuing to develop leading mobile products and services that reach a broad audience across multiple platforms, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today expanded the reach of its industry-leading services with the immediate availability of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android. Leveraging the latest HTML5 [...]
Malvern : Mangos, a full-service advertising agency, has been recognized with two Gold awards from Graphis, the premier publication for visual communications worldwide. The awards recognize Mangos’ cover art illustrations for jazz musician Maxfield Gast’s CD “Eat Your Beats,” as well as an annual report created for Bermuda-based reinsurance company Harbor Point. The cover art [...]
Mindshare North America has been awarded planning and implementation responsibilities for 21st Century Insurance and Financial Services, Inc., it was announced today. 21st Century is part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, the third largest personal lines insurer in the country. Mindshare handles similar media responsibilities for Zurich Financial Services Group, which includes Farmers. [...]
Reston : comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, has released an overview of the U.S. online display advertising market for Q1 2010, which showed strong gains following softness for much of 2009. Data from comScore’s Ad Metrix services shows that U.S. Internet users received a record 1.1 trillion display ads [...]
Mexico City: comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, has released a report on Internet growth in Mexico based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service. The report found that in March there were 15.5 million home and work Internet users age 15 and older in Mexico, an increase of [...]
McLean : USA TODAY, official U.S. representative to the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, and co-sponsors Pereira & O’Dell, Starcom Mediavest Group and Tribal DDB announce the winners of the 2010 Young Lions “Team USA” competitions. 2010 Young Lions categories and “Team USA” winners are: Cyber: Carla Ballecer and Karen Gereffi, R/GA . Film: Julissa [...]
Atlanta: Definition 6, an integrated interactive agency, has announced it won two awards in the 2010 AiMA Awards competition. Definition 6 earned the “Most Effective Video Campaign” award for The Coca-Cola “Happiness Machine” video it produced. The “Happiness Machine” video also shared the “People’s Choice” award honors at this year’s ceremony. The Coca-Cola “Happiness Machine” [...]
New York :The About Group, a part of The New York Times Company, announced today that it has named Mitchell Kreuch as senior vice president, sales. As a key member of theAbout Group senior leadership team, Mr. Kreuch will manage and oversee all online sales efforts including strategy, programming and after-sale account support. Additionally, he [...]
New York :Alexandra Delanghe has joined DDB as U.S. Director of Communications. Based in New York, she also will be responsible for the U.S. communications of Tribal DDB, effective immediately. Delanghe, 29, was previously with Powell Communications, New York, where she led the public relations efforts of nine clients, including agencies of all sizes and [...]