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How a local builder markets like a big brand
Surrey firm HICL Builders shows how a local business wins with location-targeted SEO, video case studies, easy lead capture and community investment.
Aug 193 min read


EE Structures: the concrete specialist letting its work do the talking
How London RC-frame and groundworks specialist EE Structures wins work by capturing its live sites on camera — turning everyday delivery into a brand asset.
Aug 193 min read


Email Marketing for UK Small Businesses: A Beginner's Guide
A UK-focused beginner’s guide to email marketing for small businesses: build a permission-based list, stay compliant with UK GDPR and PECR, pick a platform, and get the best ROI.
Aug 185 min read


JCDecaux renews its emblematic Hamburg street-furniture contract for 15 years
JCDecaux renewed its Hamburg street-furniture contract for 15 years, adding green-roof shelters and fleet electrification — OOH quietly modernising city inventory.
Aug 183 min read


French radio takes DAB+ to national TV to defend the dashboard
French radio's 'Ensemble pour le DAB+' ran a national TV campaign to defend the car dashboard as DAB+ targets 80% coverage — a category-wide defence play.
Aug 183 min read


Meta appeals France's order to renegotiate press neighbouring rights
Meta appealed France's order to reopen 'droits voisins' negotiations with publishers — opening a second front after Google in France's platform-payment fight.
Aug 183 min read


Havas Media stays France's No.1 media agency as Zenith overtakes Starcom
RECMA's France 2025 ranking keeps Havas Media No.1 at 14.5% as Zenith overtakes Starcom and iProspect enters the top five — the French media-agency pecking order.
Aug 183 min read


France Televisions posts record audiences for the Tour de France Femmes
France Televisions posted record Tour de France Femmes audiences — a 32.9% share and 23.2m viewers — strengthening the commercial case for women's sport.
Aug 183 min read


Ahoj-Brause revives the 'PPAP' meme as a social-first jingle
Ahoj-Brause turned the 2016 'PPAP' meme into a remixable jingle for its Brausefinger launch — a heritage brand mining precise nostalgia to reach Gen Z on social.
Aug 182 min read


The Ambition creates a Head of Strategy & Innovation role, hiring from DB Schenker
The Ambition named ex-DB Schenker brand lead Sophie Käppele its first Head of Strategy & Innovation — client-side talent crossing into agency strategy.
Aug 183 min read


Payback staffs up to grow its FMCG commerce-media business
Payback created an FMCG new-business role and hired ex-Bertelsmann's Maximilian Aigner — Germany's loyalty platforms staffing up to compete in retail media.
Aug 182 min read


Havas Media retains — and expands — the Hermes Arzneimittel account
Havas Media retained and expanded Hermes Arzneimittel's account after a multi-stage pitch, adding econometric modelling — media competing on proof, not just buying clout.
Aug 182 min read


FC Bayern names Google Gemini and Pixel official partners
FC Bayern named Gemini its official Consumer AI Partner and Pixel its Smartphone Partner — a marquee club showing how sponsorship now sells AI usage, not just awareness.
Aug 183 min read


Lidl fires back at Aldi with a mocking film in the discounter 'app war'
Lidl hit back at Aldi with a mocking film in Germany's discounter 'app war' — a comparative-advertising spectacle that's really a fight over loyalty-app data.
Aug 183 min read


Motel One commissions a sonic identity for 13 countries
Motel One appointed Berlin agency EightSix to build a 13-country sonic identity covering The Cloud One too — a bet on audio as a cross-border recognition asset.
Aug 183 min read


The DFB-Pokal gets its first rebrand in a decade
The DFB-Pokal's first rebrand in a decade, by Strichpunkt and MANERA, goes digital-first with a violet accent and distinct trophy logos for men's, women's and junior play.
Aug 183 min read


A German court bans Netto's 'environmentally friendly' yogurt ad
A German court banned Netto's 'environmentally friendly' yogurt ad in a Deutsche Umwelthilfe greenwashing win — a precedent raising the bar for sustainability claims.
Aug 183 min read


Pumpkin spice invades the deodorant aisle as CPG brands manufacture a moment
Old Spice's 'Fallidudes' and Native's snarky PSL send-off turned pumpkin spice into a fall marketing battleground — how CPG brands manufacture cultural moments.
Aug 183 min read


Red Robin hires Whataburger's Scott Hudler as CMO to steer its turnaround
Red Robin hired Whataburger's Scott Hudler as CMO — a poached fast-food marketer signalling casual dining's fight to rebuild brand relevance amid soft traffic.
Aug 182 min read


Walmart Connect finally gives advertisers negative-keyword controls
Walmart Connect added negative-keyword controls for Sponsored Products, narrowing the retail-media gap with Amazon Ads. What advertisers should do now.
Aug 182 min read
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