Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

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In a complex and slightly confusing transaction, Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, which earlier this week rejected a bid by media PE firm Quadrangle, is now…

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Former Digitas exec Neal Prescott has been named CEO of WPP Digital’s new production services unit, Deliver. The new unit will tie together production services in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin…

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The first six months of ‘08 were fairly eventful for media agency holding company Aegis: it made 14 acquisitions, as profits rose 16.7 percent on a constant currency basis to…

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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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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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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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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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-- 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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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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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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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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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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Breeze Tech, the incongruously-named Bluetooth marketing firm based in London, UK, has received £800,000 in funding commitments from private equity firm Beringea. Breeze was founded in 2003, and provides Bluetooth-based…

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In a wide ranging interview with Reuters, WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell held forth on a number of his favorite subjects: Google, the ad economy, acquisitions and the ad…

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— AOL (NYSE: TWX) Europe’s Chad Wollen is quitting the internet company for ITV (LSE: ITV), where he becomes director of marketing strategy, where he will develop the marketing and…

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Despite increasing its bid to £996 million ($1.938 billion) from £948 million ($1.844 billion), WPP Group has been rejected a second time by audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, The…

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The Internet Advertising Sales House, a part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK that oversees online sales firms, has named digital vet and former IASH head James Aitken as chairman,…

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Aegis Group has bought German online marketing consultancy rmsarcar.com, its second international digital acquisition in two weeks. Financial terms of the UK media buying firm’s purchase of rmsarcar were not…

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French advertising holding company Havas has increased its 40 percent stake in London ad shop Archibald Ingall Stretton as the two prepare a combined International network offering digital and creative…

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Although WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the…

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Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has rejected WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer as “opportunistic” and undervaluing the company, telegraph.co.uk reported. TNS has been trying to merge with…

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Private equity firm ECI has paid £45.5 million to acquire a 60 percent stake in interactive media shop i-level and its parent company ILG (SEO: 066570) Digital, the Guardian reported.…

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— Five Relaunches VOD Service: Five is relaunching its video-on-demand service Five Download as Demand Five in late May, and plans a “significant” on-air marketing campaign to promote it, reports…

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Arizona-based digital marketing shop iCrossing is acquiring another European agency - Germany’s 3GNet - for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 1999 and with clients including Audible (NSDQ: ADBL), eBay (NSDQ:…

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