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Women for Women : Ophelia Horton is a fashion blogger with a difference – she is just 13 years old.

by Will Corry on June 19, 2013

Ophelia Horton is a fashion blogger with a difference - she is just 13 years old.  Her blog, Who's That Girl?, receives thousands of visits a day and imparts her opinions on the latest trends.
So how does the London schoolgirl fit her life on the style scene around her homework? BBC News joined her beside the catwalk and at her laptop to find out.

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Ogilvy London wins Gold three days in a row at Cannes Lions

by Will Corry on June 19, 2013

Ogilvy London has won a Gold Lion for the third day in a row at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2013.

Ogilvy London has won its third Gold Lion in a row today for its 'Auto Tune' radio ad for Dove, making 5 Lions in total won by the UK agency at this year's Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity so far.

The Dove 'Auto Tune' radio ad features a women singing in a synthesised voice about feeling ugly because she doesn't look like 'perfect' models. But when she reaches her final line - 'then I remember that you're not real' - her voice becomes clear and genuine.

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The Agency : Movers & Groovers and all their new account expansion

by Will Corry on June 18, 2013

Bath based Planning, Creative, Technology and Media firm The Agency have promoted Planning Director Matt Rees to agency Partner, following a 12-month period of unprecedented growth. The latest set of filed company accounts show that The Agency turnover has increased by 30% and gross profit by 36% in the period ending January 2013, a continuation of 2012’s financial performance.

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Charles Saatchi video / “Any ‘man’ who gets a woman by the throat ain’t no ‘man’ in my book”

by Will Corry on June 17, 2013

It’s been quite a few days for adland and the media world’s finest: BBH’s Nigel Bogle gets a knighthood (good), Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Wendi Deng (depends on your point of view) with all sorts of colourful rumours flying...Watch the video

Guardian blogger Roy Greenslade apologises to Nigella Lawson and Guardian colleagues over blog post

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SMBs / Who else wants access to the big boy’s marketing toys? / James Critchley, cloud.IQ

by Will Corry on June 16, 2013

Startup Stories: cloud.IQ - giving SMBs access to the big boy's marketing toys

James Critchley recently spoke to Flinca's blog on internet technology, mobile and start-up (everything cloud.IQ is passionate about!)  The blog reported why he left his job working for huge enterprises to set up cloud.IQ with the aim of giving SMBs access to the big boy's marketing toys. Just over a year after James started on this venture, he looks back on the challenges he faced at the beginning, how he overcame them and the success cloud.IQ has had over the last 12 months.  Contact cloud.IQ

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Movers & Groovers / Arthur Tindsley joins Microsoft Advertising

by Will Corry on June 16, 2013

Movers & Groovers / Arthur Tindsley joins Microsoft Advertising as creative technologist From www.thedrum.com - Microsoft Advertising has appointed Beattie McGuinnes Bungay’s Arthur Tindsley to the newly created role of creative technologist. Based...

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Now you can have a daily round-up of the best news stories called ‘Daily Bing’

by Will Corry on June 16, 2013

The Independent has joined a growing list of news outlets now available on Microsoft’s UK Bing News App for Windows 8.

The app will now feature content from seven publishers, including the Guardian, The Times, Sky News and Reuters.

Users of the new app will have access to the whole of the featured newspapers with no need to download content, while e editors will produce a daily round-up of the best content called ‘Daily Bing’.

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iMedia and ad:tech London / Suppliers can take ownership of a specific topic at ad:tech London 2013

by Will Corry on June 9, 2013

  • NEW! iMedia Summits @ ad:tech For the first time iMedia and ad:tech are teaming up to bring you a series of dedicated, topic-specific summits running across the exhibition show floor and conference.
  • They will also give suppliers the chance to associate with and take ownership of a specific topic at ad:tech London 2013.
  • Find out more here

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All about Morrisons, Indicia, Ian Stockley, Elmwood, Maxymiser, Nick Keating, Tele2, Little Big

by Will Corry on June 6, 2013

Leading customer engagement agency Indicia has further signalled its intention for growth with the opening of a London office.

Based in Farringdon, the new office follows Indicia’s appointment to the Government's Digital Marketing Services Roster in March and will serve as a base to help meet the growing needs of its expanding client base.

Ian Stockley, Managing Director, Indicia, comments, “The opening of a London office reflects the increasing level of business we’re seeing in the capital and represents an incredibly exciting time for the agency. We’ve seen great success in the past thirteen years and with clients increasing in profile now is the right time to invest in a space within the capital too.

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