5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (471+ words) September 8, 2026 12:46 pm LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr has agreed to pay £26m to settle a UK High Court group action which alleged to company had shared highly sensitive personal data, including HIV-related information in some cases, with third parties for advertising purposes…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (321+ words) September 8, 2026 9:27 am Former Marketing Week and Precision Marketing deputy editor Ian McCawley is joining the Decision Marketing team as associate editor to drive new content opportunities across the online publication. Launched back in 2010, Decision Marketing remains the only independently owned,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (533+ words) September 2, 2026 8:42 am Teal Group, the company behind toy retailers The Entertainer and Addo Play, has appointed former Merlin and John Lewis executive Craig Inglis as group chief customer officer to unify its approach to customers, brand and marketing across the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) August 25, 2026 9:43 am Marketing chiefs are facing an unprecedented operational “trilemma” as flat corporate budgets and aggressive growth targets collide with the death of traditional search marketing. That is according to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Digital Marketing 2026 report which claims the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (476+ words) August 25, 2026 12:36 pm Marks & Spencer has appointed its first head of data and AI delivery to lead the strategic and scalable execution of major data and AI programmes across the retail group. Nathan Davies has taken up the role with immediate…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (357+ words) August 24, 2026 11:41 am Uber is facing one of the largest monetary penalties issued under GDPR, with the Dutch data protection authority set to slap the business with a €825m (£706m) fine over its use of automated systems to deactivate driver accounts. The fine…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (855+ words) August 21, 2026 10:42 am Mobile phones, you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them, but life was far less complicated before the giant bricks of the 1980s turned into today’s essential gadget. Still, one thing no-one can really answer is, why…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (601+ words) August 20, 2026 9:32 am Further evidence has emerged that marketers are on a different page to Gen Z, with the cohort abandoning traditional search in favour of visual and conversational discovery, forcing retailers and travel brands to rethink how customers find products…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (380+ words) August 20, 2026 10:50 am Used-car marketplace Cazoo is taking on market leader Auto Trader by tackles the industry’s biggest challenge of building buyer trust in a new campaign that aims to improve transparency and remove friction from the car search process. “Honestly,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (485+ words) August 20, 2026 8:38 am Greene King, one of the UK’s leading pub, restaurant and hotel operators, has appointed its first chief data and technology officer as part of a multi-million-pound technology overhaul to drive efficiencies, focusing on backend automation and frontend customer…...