Market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres goes in to the weekend with noe takeover offer on the table and another in the works. WPP has sent TNS its formal offer…

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-- Teletext ads: Teletext is turning to behavioural targeting to improve its web advertising offering. It’s appointed Revenue Science to handle ads across Teletext.co.uk, InLuxury and StayInTheUK, Mad.co.uk says. It…

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WPP Group continues its steady pace of digital purchases in growing markets today by taking a majority stake in Russian interactive agency Alite Ltd. The company trades as Actis and…

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-- Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk, Times Online and Telegraph.co.uk are all chasing ads…

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This is becoming a pattern. Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) half-year profits to June are down 15 percent to £80.5 million, despite digital revenue growing 40.2 percent to £22.3 million. Digital…

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Big-four communications group Publicis says it’s on track to reach its 2010 target of pulling a quarter of revenue from digital, after seeing it comprise 18.8 percent of business in…

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Could the impending advertising recession actually spread to online? Though many in web ads and publishing confidently predict a continuing “big flood of money coming out of traditional media” (that’s…

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French ad holding company Publicis Groupe has bought South Korea’s Portfolio, which describes itself as a full-service digital agency. In keeping with last year’s formation of its network of international…

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We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought…

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Despite the controversy that’s been kicked up, BT is going ahead with more trials in the coming weeks with Phorm, the behavioural ad technology firm that has developed software that…

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Glam Media is opening a German site with help from its backer Burda Cross Media. Glam is also getting some extra assistance from its latest acquisition, Munich-based digital marketing firm…

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eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is switching on its AdChoice system in the UK - a behavioural targeter that uses buyers’ and sellers’ profile data to better target display adverts. eBay unveiled…

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In line with many other reports over the past few weeks focusing on the U.S., the U.K.’s ad market looks pretty dim too these days. The Institute of Practitioners in…

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WPP has added another advertising services company to its growing collection, with Ogilvy buying a majority stake in Czech internet marketer Advertures - a company that’s so bleeding edge, it…

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As is par for the course nowadays, online ad spend was the sole shining light in a gloomy Q1 Bellwether report on the overall ad industry. Without it, main media…

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Online video advertising startup VideoPlaza has received a €420,000 seed investment from Creandum plus angels Henrik Torstensson and Magnus Hultman to launch outside of its native Sweden. Sweden is seeing…

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Though the European Commission last week told me Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hadn’t flagged its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search partnership to its antitrust authority, when I asked Yahoo whether it would…

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After Mail Online’s about-turn, GMG’s GuardianAmerica.com launch and Times Online’s WSJ.com link-up, now the UK’s number-two online paper Telegraph.co.uk has decided to make money from the majority of its users…

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-- Metrotwin: Next up in branded social networks is Metrotwin, British Airways’ attempt to encourage users to share recommendations for things to do in New York and London. Why? Because…

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As expected, WPP Group is making a hostile bid for audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which has rejected the ad holding company’s three previous offers, Reuters reports. That in…

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BT (NYSE: BT) is making a somewhat late play in the online classifieds space, buying classifieds website operator Ufindus for £20 million in cash. The telco lost its monopoly over…

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Helsinki’s Xtract, an agency that gathers social media impact data for advertisers, has closed a €7.5 million (£5.9 million) second round of funding to expand outside of Europe. The funds…

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Alterian, a London-based marketing services company, has bought online content manager Mediasurface. Shares of the combined company are expected to begin trading on July 9 on the London Stock Exchange,…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A ad network has won display ad business from Turner Media Innovations (TMi) - its first significant European deal since landing The Spectator magazine’s website in February.…

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Throwing a small lifeline to newspapers coping with the twin pressures of digital investment and falling print revenue, European media commissioner Viviane Reding pledged: ”There should be no new advertising…

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