They’re all on their bikes: Emily Bell, Adrian Chiles, just about everybody...
Emily Bell, the sainted boss of the Guardian’s web operation, is heading to the US to be a professor of journalism at Columbia University’s journalism school in New York. Adrian Chiles, the likeable...
View ArticleYouTube 1 Viacom 0 in first round of copyright court battle
Manhattan district judge Louis Stanton has thrown out Viacom’s $1bn law suit against Google-owned YouTube. Viacom, owned by feisty billionaire Sumner Redstone, had alleged that thousands of its...
View ArticleIDS closure means big battalions win UK airtime sales battle
UKTV, one of the biggest digital-only broadcasters in the UK, has awarded its airtime sales contract to Channel 4, consigning to extinction its long-time airtime sales house IDS, owned by Virgin TV....
View ArticleMTV targets ‘Millenial’ kids and young adults with launch of Scratch brand...
Generation X is on its way out and Millenials, people between ten and 28, are on their way in says Viacom-owned broadcaster MTV. To try to prove the point it’s launching a new division MTV Scratch...
View ArticleWPP gets the taste for Vice as it buys into trendsetter media business
WPP is joining former MTV and Viacom boss Tom Freston and media specialist bank Raine in a new round of investment for hipster magazine and online brand Vice, founded as a punk magazine in Toronto in...
View ArticleCBS Outdoor ditches bosses Moran and Chippendale and clears the decks in the...
CBS Outdoor, the one-time Viacom company that is now going it alone with a ‘for sale’ sign on the door, has dispensed with the services of UK managing director Mike Moran and commercial director Mark...
View ArticleCoke is tops for brand engagement on Facebook with more than 34m fans
Coca-Cola, which has just appointed 360i as its global social media monitoring agency, is the most popular brand on Facebook according to leading US search marketing agency Covario. Covario’s new study...
View ArticleFormer P&G marketer John McFarland changes GM outlook to appeal to Millennials
General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick has been busy shaking up the advertising and media buying worlds – creating a new Chevrolet agency Commonwealth from Omnicom and Interpublic and shifting the...
View ArticleSorrell rounds on his pay critics in FT diatribe
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has taken his war of words with rebellious shareholders over a 30% pay increase to the pages of the Financial Times. The crux of his robust defence is twofold....
View ArticleViacom targets mobile operators with global roll-out of MTV Play and MTV Trax
Viacom-owned music service MTV is going global with its two OTT apps MTV Play and MTV Trax. OTT means ‘over the internet,’ ie bypassing usual distribution channels in the way that Netflix and Hulu do...
View ArticleViacom plumbs the depths with sales staff lock-out as it switches £250m ad...
Companies bang on about corporate social responsibility and all that that stuff endlessly but – at heart (maybe the wrong word) – many of them are shits. Cue Viacom, proud new owners of Richard...
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