• Winter Olympics Allow Sponsors To Reach Younger, Trendy Audiences
    "Marketing Week" has been looking at sponsorship of the Winter Olympics and believes it is no longer the poorer cousin to the summer games. Instead, it is a chance for brands to reach younger, 'trendy' audience, the site claims.
  • Gen Z Lead Millennials In Content Consumption
    Gen Z are the biggest consumers of content in the UK, according to Adobe research. They consume an average of 10.6 hours of content across all devices, while millennials notch up 8.5 hours against a national average of 6.9. Mobile accounts for 5.9 hours of overall content consumption for Gen Z and 5.2 hours for millennials.
  • Camelot Puts National Lottery Account Up For Review
    It could be you! Camelot has put its advertising account up for review for the first time in ten years. "Campaign" reports that the move is aimed at "reinvigorating the brand." Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO is the incumbent and has said it will repitch.
  • Eurosport And Facebook Partner For Winter Olympics Coverage
    Eurosport has concluded a partnership with Facebook that will see key aspects of the Winter Olympics streamed on the site in the UK and in other key European territories, "The Drum" reports.
  • Mastercard Renews Champions League Sponsorship
    Mastercard has renewed its sponsorship of Uefa's Champions League from 2018 through to 2021. The Drum reports this means the financial services company will have been connected to the competition since 1994.
  • ASA Rules Against Poundland's Saucy Elf Christmas Campaign
    Poundland has received a slap on the wrist and had a series of social media posts banned by the ASA, "Marketing Week" reports. The chain store's Christmas campaign had featured an elf in several suggestive poses and had caused uproar on social media.
  • McLaren And Dell Sponsorship To Be Announced
    The McLaren F1 team and Dell will unveil a long-term sponsorship plan today, Sky News reports.
  • MPs Fly To America On Fake News Mission
    The BBC is reporting that several MPs have travelled to the US to grill the social media giants about the problem of fake news.
  • Commercial Radio Is Still Ahead, But BBC Is Closing The Gap
    The latest RAJAR figures show that although commercial radio is still ahead of BBC stations, the gap is closing, "Campaign" reports.
  • EU To Probe Apple's Shazam Purchase
    The EU will open an investigation into whether Apple's proposed purchase of the British song-recognising app, Shazam, is anti-competitive, "The Telegraph" reports.
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