Following a competitive pitch, AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won the exclusive third party online advertising rights for Coles Online, Australia’s leading online grocery, fresh food and liquor retailer. With contracts being signed this week, AD2ONE will start work with Coles Online on September 1st 2009.
Communications Alliance is delighted to announce that Mike Quigley, Executive Chair of NBN Co Limited, will participate in the upcoming series of NBN Industry Connection Forums. The Forums will take place in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in September.
Flossie.com, Australia’s first female-centric masthead network has continued its expansion, announcing today that Mia Freedman’s popular “Mama Mia” site has appointed Flossie to manage all its site advertising. The announcement brings the total number of Australian sites under the Flossie masthead network to 48.
Collaboration is critical to enhancing customer service in the communications industry according to speakers at the Communications Alliance Customer Service Summit in Melbourne today.
The Board of Communications Alliance today announced Chief Executive Officer Anne Hurley’s decision to step down from the role in 2010.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today welcomed NBN Co Limited as its newest member.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, says its NBN works program has attracted over 80 participants and generated robust discussion from a broad spectrum of the sector.Priority project teams are well advanced and initial outcomes are expected to be discussed at a soon to be announced third round of NBN Industry Connection Forums.
Primus would like to advise that its Melbourne Data Centre power upgrade scheduled for Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th August 2009 has been successfully completed. The entire upgrade, which was planned over the last six months was achieved in a seamless manner.
Media buyers, agencies and publishers are a step closer to auditing nirvana with the launch of Brand Summary screens by the Audit Bureaux of Australia (ABA). The screens, which are available to all ABA members, provide a single view of print, digital, website and email newsletter circulation figures, allowing media buyers to accurately compare and consider credible audited data.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry today announced the publication of an industry Guideline for Prepaid Calling Cards.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won three new clients and will now provide exclusive online advertising access to the world’s leading independent stock market research house, Fat Prophets, the eBay owned pioneer of online comparison shopping, Shopping.com and the world's first, independent, web browser-based instant messaging (IM) service and now a popular IM aggregator, eBuddy. All three clients were won in competitive pitches recently.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced a pilot of its new online compliance and training tool for customer service excellence.
The Assess, Comply, Deliver (ACD) Tool will assist the communications industry to self-assess compliance with customer service and complaint handling obligations outlined in the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code. It will also provide training tips that can be incorporated into existing staff training programmes.
Australia’s online advertising market has again beaten advertising market trends, recording continued strong, double digit growth year on year of 18.5 percent for the full financial year according to figures released today by IAB Australia in its Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER). The Report, which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), showed that online advertising expenditure in Australia for the financial year ending June 30 2009 exceeded $1.8 billion and totalled $453 million for second-quarter 2009 (three months ended 30 June 2009).
Today Primus Telecom announced that a new era of faster broadband has begun in Tasmania with the activation of its transmission on Basslink’s fibre-optic cable to Tasmania. Primus Telecom’s increased backhaul to Tasmania using the new Basslink cable will increase interstate capacity, while introducing increased competition on the important communications route from mainland Australia to Tasmania.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, will this month host a Customer Service Summit to explore opportunities for enhancing customer service in the rapidly changing communications environment.
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to provide small businesses with solutions that meet both current and future storage needs, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the world’s leading provider of storage solutions, today announced a complete portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime. First introduced in 2008 as a portable Full Disk Encryption drive, the new Seagate® BlackArmor® product line is the family name for a suite of network-attached, workstation and portable storage solutions designed to meet the digital asset management needs of small business professionals.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, has extended its reach, opening an office in Melbourne less than a year after expanding its Sydney operation and opening an office in Singapore. AD2ONE Melbourne, the fifth international location for the growing company, will be headed up by Kate Tilden, who has been named as its Victorian Sales Manager. Previously working with Sensis Mediasmart, Kate brings extensive experience to the role having most recently been Sales Manager for Victoria and South Australia.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today announced the appointment of BanSeng Teh as the Vice President and Managing Director of Nippon Seagate. Teh will assume responsibility for Seagate’s Japan operations in addition to his existing responsibilities as Vice President and Managing Director for the Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing Organization. As a combined region, Asia Pacific and Japan currently generate over 40 % to Seagate’s total revenue.
Communications Alliance today welcomed the appointment of Mike Quigley as executive chairman of the National Broadband Network company and Doug Campbell as chairman of Tasmanian NBN Company.
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