AKQA appoints Michael de Kare-Silver as Managing Director Europe

AKQA has appointed Michael de Kare-Silver Managing Director Europe. Michael was previously Managing Director of Modem Media Europe. Michael will be based at the agency’s London office and his official start date is 20 December. “We are delighted to have Michael join our executive team,” said Tom...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

Web Developers Failing Scottish Business

The online success of Scottish businesses is being held back by the design practices of the web development community, according to recent research by leading online marketing consultancy Scotti Internet Marketing. Scotti Internet Marketing has studied a cross-section of Scottish web sites to de...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

New Sales Director takes the helm at Rostima

London UK – 9th December 2004: Rostima Ltd, a global leader in the development and supply of enterprise workforce management solutions, has appointed Steve Moore as Sales Director to spearhead the company’s global business development. Steve joins Rostima with more than 15 years experience in...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

Leading global iTV software developer emuse is nominated for a BAFTA award

LONDON (December 9, 2004) – emuse technologies, the world’s leading multiplatform interactive TV application and deployment software developer, has been nominated with ITV for a BAFTA Interactive award for the creation of the interactive element of ITV’s “The Great British Spelling Test”. Tens of...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

Randommedia staffs up

Randommedia, the digital ideas agency, today announces the appointment of three new team members. Cassandra Murray joins as Account Executive, Tom Brady as Account Manager and Darren Simpson joins the creative team as Senior Designer. He will be reporting into Creative Director Andy Sandoz, Brady...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

TradeDoubler TrackerTM - November 2004

As expected November was the stongest month yet in terms of sales generated through TradeDoubler’s network. As customers do more of their Christmas shopping online as opposed to the high street a noticeable trend has emerged this year in that consumers seem to be buying lower value items. Whilst ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 9th December 2004

NeoWorks develop Royal Doulton US and Canadian Site

NeoWorks (http://www.neoworks.com), as part of their continuing development of the Royal Doulton web site, have created an integrated e-commerce website targeting Royal Doulton’s US customers (http://www.royaldoulton.com). Royal Doulton is one of the worlds oldest and most well know chinaware co...
Published on: 12:00AM on 8th December 2004

Web church re-opens - for individual visits onl

(LONDON - 29 Nov 04) -- CHURCH OF FOOLS, the UK’s first 3D online house of worship, has re-opened - as a place for private prayer and reflection. Visitors will be able to choose a cartoon ‘double’, then walk around, kneel, pray, shout 'Hallelujah', play a hymn, even ring the church bells. Howeve...
Published on: 12:00AM on 8th December 2004

A great new money saving service from Cheeze

Digital direct marketing agency Cheeze has launched a service that saves paid-for search listings advertisers thousands of pounds by pausing bids when their web sites have technical problems. Web sites inevitably go down from time to time, but clients seldom know about it. If they do know about ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 8th December 2004

Thomsonfly.com launches Advent Calendar to promote Festive Flight Deals and Offers

Consumers offered 24 fantastic flight deals each day in the run up to Christmas This week, Thomsonfly.com launches a festive microsite, developed by Tribal DDB, which will take the shape of an advent calendar. Targeted emails will provide consumers with direct access to the microsite, with a var...
Published on: 12:00AM on 8th December 2004

Boltblue Signs Agreement for Accipiter AdBureau and Trafficking Services

UK's Premier Mobile Internet Portal Also Leverages Rich Media Capabilities LONDON, UK and RALEIGH, NC – December 7, 2004 – Accipiter Solutions, Inc., an online advertising technology leader since 1996, today announced that Boltblue, the UK’s premier mobile Internet portal, has signed a contract ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 7th December 2004

DoubleClick Partners With Omniture to Offer Web Analytics Solution

--- DoubleClick’s SiteAdvance customers will be migrated to Omniture’s SiteCatalyst; Integration offered with DoubleClick’s DARTmail and DART for Advertisers --- London, December 7, 2004 – DoubleClick Inc. (NASDAQ: DCLK), the leading provider of solutions for advertising agencies, marketers and ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 7th December 2004

Digivate hires two new Account Managers

E-commerce agency Digivate has appointed Navdeep Punia and Edwin Ulak as Account Managers. Nav joins from Laura Ashley where she was E-commerce Manager and Edwin comes from Toronto where he was responsible for the Weller Haircare account at Canadian new media agency Waldon & Associates. “We’re ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 6th December 2004

The Usability Company successfully completes buyout

06-December-2004 - The Usability Company, the UK's foremost business-focused usability consultancy, today announces that its management team has completed a successful buyout of the 30 per cent stake held in the company by business incubator, Brainspark. The deal comes at a successful time for T...
Published on: 12:00AM on 6th December 2004

Design UK creates Online Shop for Hackett to hit the Christmas trading peak

Digital agency, Design UK, has created the first ever online shop for the prestige men’s brand, Hackett, the home of "Essential British Kit" including clothing, accessories and grooming. Design UK is responsible for the site design as well as content management and ecommerce system development. ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 3rd December 2004

People Solutions website wins at annual HR Oscars for Jaguar & Land Rover

PRESS RELEASE – Freestyle New Media Group Freestyle HR website helps Land Rover/Jaguar win at annual HR Oscars Warwick, 2 December 2004 - People Solutions, a website designed and built by Warwick-based Freestyle New Media Group, has helped Jaguar & Land Rover Academy scoop a major award in th...
Published on: 12:00AM on 2nd December 2004

Inbox Digital launches self-promotional Christmas game

Direct digital marketing agency Inbox Digital has developed a viral game with private leagues to promote themselves and their new viral marketing offering. www.speedysanta.com The game is a very simple driving game where Santa and his trusty reindeers drive around a track against the clock. Th...
Published on: 12:00AM on 2nd December 2004

ReadSoft selected by market research company

CML Solutions’ selection of ReadSoft software highlights advantages of automated document processing solutions for SMEs ReadSoft FORMS, part of the ReadSoft DOCUMENTS Automation Platform, has been selected by UK market research company CML Solutions to streamline the processing of thousands of r...
Published on: 12:00AM on 2nd December 2004

See your site through Google's goggles

Search engine marketing (SEM) agency Spannerworks has just launched a free to use search engine optimisation (SEO) diagnostics toolkit which has been developed in-house and is available to use on www.spannerworks.com. The agency is committed to promoting a best practice approach to SEM and has de...
Published on: 12:00AM on 1st December 2004

London Metropolitan University commission NeoWorks to develop e-learning tool

NeoWorks (www.neoworks.com) have been commissioned by London Metropolitan University’s Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) (www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri/) to further the development of AcademicTalk, a ‘state of the art’ software tool for synchronous discussion. The development is part of a ...
Published on: 12:00AM on 1st December 2004