WPP Group’s Wunderman, which has been reforming itself into a digital shop over the past year, has taken an unspecified, majority stake in Kassius, a Paris-based ad shop, games manufacturer…

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Less than a month after naming Brendan Condon international head for its Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) network of ad firms, AOL is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle that…

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The message couldn’t be clearer: Don’t expect media ownership regulation to ease up anytime soon. In a hefty report published today by the House of Lords Communications Committee, it firmly…

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Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe has formed an ad network relying on all four of the major ad serving systems run by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…

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Tory blogger Iain Dale, whose web journal has earned him a place at the Westminster commentariat’s top table since failing in his bid for Conservative election, has launched a new…

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Perhaps the title of the Cannes International Advertising Festival panel—“From Metrics to Brand: Online’s Next Challenge"-- was deliberately bland. But the chance to see the outspoken WPP Group’s CEO Sir…

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And you thought throngs of people would really “friend” your brand on MySpace? Half of all advertiser-branded social networking pages in Europe have fewer than 1,000 friends, new Jupiter research…

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This WSJ.com article doesn’t add much news to WPP’s ongoing bid for market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) - but it does posit one way Sir Martin Sorrell may…

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B2B publisher Incisive Media - publisher of The Inquirer, Computing magazine and others - is in the process of buying a stake in an online recruitment ads site. CEO Tim…

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Some UK digital ad agencies are already getting nervous about Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) face-saving deal to display ads from a Google increasingly dominant in the sector. Two examples from a…

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On cue, Glam Media has started making use of the big money it has raised: it is announcing its first acquisition, and has bought out London-based online ad sales rep…

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Big-four advertising group Publicis reckons it will easily meet its goal of reaping a quarter of company revenues from the internet by 2010. CEO Maurice Levy tells La Tribune (via…

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Not that Liz Nelson will have much say over the matter anymore, but the co-founder of market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has spoken out against its proposed merger with…

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-- ITV: ITV’s (LSE: ITV) odd ITVLocal.com offering is doing data partnerships with two other sites in a desperate attempt to hit its target of £150 million online revenue by…

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UK internet advertising spend rose 39.5 percent in 2007 to £3.02 billion, according to the Advertising Association - that’s more than the £2.81 billion estimated by the more commonly accepted…

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Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres is pressing ahead with its merger with its German counterpart GfK, but it has nevertheless agreed to open its books to spurned suitor WPP…

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Perform Sales, the ad network arm of UK online publisher Perform, has acquired rival No. 9 Media for an undisclosed sum. The deal creates a a major UK player in…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) aims to complete the global integration of its Platform-A ad network components by end of 2009, following today’s announcement it is taking the consortium to Europe. And…

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Having recently completed its purchase of UK social net Bebo, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is finally ready to bring Platform-A, its collection of ad units, to Europe. Time Warner vet Brendan…

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WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell is now resorting to a kind of name calling in his continuing pursuit of audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which is trying to fend…

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UK advertisers will spend 77 percent more on social networks this year at £115 million, and that will hit £285 million, eMarketer says. But that’s just 3.4 percent of the…

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Marketing and comms group Aegis’ digital agency Isobar is buying Russia’s 76-employee AdWatch, which does online ad buying, planning and digital PR for clients like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Canon.…

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SpiralFrog, the ad-funded free music and video download site, has signed a distribution deal with UK-based label EMI, giving it access to the content of two of the four major…

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German internet company OnVista has sold off its online ad sales subsidiary Ad2Net to local venture capital firm Media Ventures GmbH, for about Euro 1.6 million, plus a “media volume…

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-- BSkyB: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding Times Media digital commercial director Giles Ivey, who joined the newspaper group in October, to head portal sales, with existing director Paul Wright…

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