October 2009 Archives

LIVERPOOL digital agency Mando Group has won a new two-year deal with water company United Utilities.

A NEW survey from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) shows basic pay for marketing professionals in the North West is below the national average - though managers are less badly off.

RETAILER Matalan has teamed up with Lime Pictures to fund a new Hollyoaks spin-off.
The Hollyoaks Music Show with Matalan.co.uk, now running on Saturdays on Channel 4, is the latest spin-off from the popular teen soap, and features A-List and unsigned bands alongside Hollyoaks stars.

NEWS this morning that Barnardo's has launched a campaign highlighting the deficit in care for the children of convicted criminals has caused a stir.

LDP Creative blogger Ben Pinnginton on how the UK can go green

LAST week Artemis organised a national renewable energy conference at the BT Convention Centre - the inaugural Green Power Forum (GPF). The event, which attracted delegates and speakers from across the UK went well, much to the team's collective relief. There was a great deal of nerves after months of hard work but delegates said they'd really enjoyed it and learnt from it.

DIGITAL agency Rippleffect is helping train passengers in South Yorkshire get connected through a new e-mail service it has designed.

A SUPPORT scheme to help the region's creative firms attract new investors is being launched by Northwest Vision and Media (NWVM).

Our blogger Dougal Paver on the uproar caused by Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir

IT'S NOW a truism, but that doesn't mean it's not worth repeating: the internet is a great leveller and a boon to democracy.

LDP Creative blogger Ben Pinnington on the importance of training new talent

IN THESE troubled times few groups are more deserving of the media's reflected power than young people. For this reason the importance of Daily Post's Apprenticeships campaign to our region cannot be underestimated from both an economic and societal perspective.

MEDIACITY celebrated another key milestone today as the BBC was handed the keys to the first of its three new buildings at the Salford site.