Howden hires agency for data-driven rebranding blitz
UK high street consumer insurance specialist Howden Consumer & Local Commercial has handed the media business for a major data-driven…
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The Specialist Works lands Neilson insurance TV brief
Neilson Financial Services, the direct-to-consumer life insurance company, has appointed The Specialist Works to handle all of the company’s DRTV…
Eight Brits face trial over alleged car crash data ring
The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against eight individuals over the alleged unlawful accessing and obtaining of consumers’…
Simples: Comparethemarket beats off £18m CMA fine
Comparethemarket’s brand champion Aleksandr Orlov will no doubt be quietly cracking open the Beluga Noble after the BLG-owned company has…
Hastings Direct bigs up Wunderman digital overhaul
Hastings Direct has called in Wunderman Thompson Commerce to drive the UK insurance provider’s digital transformation in a move designed…
BLG refuses to pull meerkats despite links with Russia
BLG-owned ComparetheMarket has dismissed calls to pull its ads featuring the long-running Russian meerkat Aleksandr Orlov – seemingly based on…
Axa opens UK data academy to boost in-house expertise
Axa UK is aiming to steel a march on insurance industry rivals by putting data at the heart of its…
Not so Simples: £18m fine for Comparethemarket ‘con’
Comparethemarket might revel in being “Simples” for consumers but it seems for most the price comparison site is anything but,…
Hiscox Action Group taps up top law firm in claims fight
Hiscox is digging its heals in over settling business interruption insurance claims for the Covid-19 outbreak despite – or perhaps…
‘As good as our word’ Hiscox flayed for refusing payout
Hiscox may big itself up as the specialist insurer for niche areas of the market in its advertising, from property…