• Jeremy Corbyn To Call For A 'Windfall Tax' On The Tech Giants
    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is to suggest Facebook, Amazon and Google should face a windfall tax to fund journalism in the UK, the BBC reveals. This could be helped by some not for profit media organisations, such as the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, being given charitable status.
  • Robinsons Cordial To Sponsor 'Saturday Morning With James Martin'
    Robinsons Cordials, owned by Britvic, is to the new sponsor of ITV's "Saturday Morning with James Martin," "Campaign" reveals. The celebrity chef's show returns for a second series on the 1st of September.
  • Sports Streaming Service Signs Up Cristiano Ronaldo
    Cristiano Ronaldo has a new club this season and a new sponsorship as well, according to "Mobile Marketing." The Juventus star is now the face of DAZN, the sports streaming service available in Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy.
  • 'Bake Off' Returns With A Vegan Week
    If marketers are looking for a tipping point on British dietary habits, they may need to look no further than "The Guardian" revealing that "The Great British Bake Off" is returning next Tuesday and this season there will be a vegan week.
  • Football Star Zlatan Closes Clothes Range
    He may be a star of the football pitch, currently playing for LA Galaxy, but Zlatan's less of a fashion entrepreneur, it would appear. "Sky News" reports that the star's attempt to launch a clothing range has met in disaster with the A-Z business being shut down with GBP18m in debts, mostly accrued through marketing costs.
  • Is TV Coverage Of Courtroom Trials Inevitable?
    ITN believes that tv coverage of court cases is inevitable and is calling on the Government to relax rules on reporting news from inside a courtroom, "The Guardian" reports.
  • Philip Morris On Its Shift To Being An 'Inside Challenger'
    "Marketing Week" has an interesting article today on how tobacco firm Philip Morris International is positioning itself as an "inside challenger" aiming to secure a foothold in the growing "smoke-free" alternative market.
  • Santander Launches Suffragette Cycle Tours
    Santander is using its sponsorship of hire bikes in London to launch a guided tour of historic locations in London linked to the suffragette movement to mark a hundred years since women won the vote in Britain, "Campaign" reports.
  • Tui Banned From Referring To October As Summer
    An ad for travel agent giant, Tui, has been banned for referring to offers extending into October as being part of a summer campaign, "The Drum" reports.
  • Coca-Cola Launches GBP5m Campaign To Unify Classic And Zero Brands
    "Marketing Week" has details today of a GBP5m Coca-Cola campaign in the UK to encourage the public to drink its zero sugar variant. Both the classic and zero sugar bottles will feature the same red labelling, but zero sugar will have a black band at the top to denote it is the healthier option.
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