Campaign
Health food retailer Holland & Barrett is reviewing its creative account, "Campaign" reports. It currently works with Pablo London.
Mobile Marketing
Facebook has launched new movie show time and reminder ad formats so cinema chains and film makers can attract more people to the cinema, "Mobile Marketing" reports.
Campaign
Disney has poached Sky's CMO, Luke Bradley-Jones, to launch its subscription service in Europe, "Campaign" writes.
Campaign
If you thought the ASA's ban on recent VW and Mondelez ads for relying on gender stereotypes was a bit harsh, you are not alone. Advertising bodies, the IPA and ISBA, have both expressed concern that the rulings go way beyond the spirit or even the letter of the new rules, "Campaign" reveals.
The Times
The EU is being urged by the heads of 23 online recruitment search services to suspect Google's job search feature, "The Times" reports. They allege it is unfair Google places jobs at the top of search results above the position obtainable by a third-party recruitment site.
BBC
The BBC is reporting that assurances from Facebook that it did not mislead MPs over when it first knew about the misuse of personal information by Cambridge Analytica have not gone down well with Damian Collins. The Chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has referred to the reassurance from Facebook as "typically disingenuous."
City A.M.
For a PM that keeps saying he is not preparing for a general election, Boris Johnson sure is spending a lot on Facebook ads. In fact, City A.M. points out the party has spend more than GBP50k on Facebook ads in the month since he took power, more than all other parties combined.
The Drum
"The Drum" is reporting that Facebook has confirmed it has stopped the process of allowing its staff to transcribe audio conversations in Messenger after the practice was revealed by Bloomberg yesterday.
The Guardian
VW and Philadelphia are the first two brands to suffer the ignominy of having an ad banned by the ASA for reinforcing unhelpful gender stereotypes. "The Guardian" reveals that the ads were banned for featuring a "passive" women and a "bungling" dad.
Campaign
MullenLowe Group is hiring Danny Donovan as the chief executive of its media agency, Mediahub, according to "Campaign." He moves over from WPP's GroupM.