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Flutter Entertainment has appointed EssenceMediacom, the flagship media planning and buying agency of WPP Plc, to manage its entire UK advertising account. The FTSE100 gambling group maintains a prior relationship with Mediacom, the agency that consolidated the Paddy Power and Betfair advertising accounts in 2016 as part of the group’s +£100m post-merger synergies strategy. Subsequent M&As undertaken by Flutter saw …

Sky Betting & Gaming has held the first in a series of ‘Commercial Talks’, as industry pros took to the floor to share their experience and knowledge to the local product and marketing community in Leeds. On 6 October, over 40 guests spanning product management, design, creative and brand, secured a slot to hear talks from Sky Bet’s Commercial Director …

Following April’s news that Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) would seek to merge its media and advertising accounts, following a restructure of its group marketing leadership. UK marketing news source ‘Campaign Live’ today reports that PPB’s merged marketing account will be handled by MediaCom (for PPB planning & buying) and Lucky Generals (for PPB creative strategy). Merging its media assets, MediaCom …

The Irish Independent reports that recently merged Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) will look to cut one of its media agencies. Seeking further corporate alignment between Paddy Power and Betfair assets, PPB governance is reported to want to merge its entire + £40 million advertising account under the control of one lead agency. PPB will review its marketing planning and buying …

Betfair has confirmed that it has awarded its £15 million European media planning and buying account to international media agency MediaCom. MedicCom will replace Havas Media Group agency Arena, who declined to re-pitch its services to Betfair, Arena had been lead media planner for Betfair since 2013. Betfair had announced it would conduct a European media planning and buying review …