Ward Lovett has been bought out of administration by a new company called Kerst, saving 12 jobs at its Cannock-based advertising and PR business. 28-Jan-2013
Forrest Media is to invest £3m in the expansion of its outdoor advertising operations in Scotland, including the replacement of traditional billboards with digital signs. 28-Jan-2013
Loveurope has acquired Locomotion, the London-based advertising, digital, film and broadcast production company. 23-Jan-2013
Outside Line, the London-based advertising agency with 68 staff, has been acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi for about £8m. 17-Dec-2012
InSkin Media has secured a £2m investment from Beringea to fund the expansion of its London-based advertising technology and digital media business. 25-Oct-2012
Mission Marketing Group has acquired Addiction Worldwide, the London-based advertising agency with 70 staff, for undisclosed terms. 25-Sep-2012
Unitel Direct is to create about 90 new jobs at its internet advertising telesales call centre in Barrow over the next six months. 24-Sep-2012
Aylesworth Fleming is to create up to 12 jobs at its new advertising office in Kibworth, Leicestershire, over the next two years. 13-Sep-2012
Zone is to relocate its London-based digital advertising business to a 17,000 sq ft office at the Western Transit Shed in King's Cross in June 2013. 06-Sep-2012
Brothers & Sisters is to relocate its London-based advertising agency to a 10,900 sq ft office in Clerkenwell Close. 31-Jul-2012
Aegis, the advertising and marketing group with 12,000 staff in 80 countries, is to be acquired by Dentsu of Japan for £3.2bn. 12-Jul-2012
Creative Lynx, the Manchester-based advertising agency with about 100 staff, has been acquired by Havas of France for undisclosed terms. 06-Jun-2012
Omnicom is to acquire Adam & Eve, the London-based advertising agency, for an estimated £60m, and the business will be merged with DDB London. 24-May-2012
Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising agency, is reported by in discussions to take a 250,000 sq ft office at Westminster Place near London Waterloo. 19-Mar-2012
WPP is planning to relocate the headquarters of its advertising business from Ireland back to London. 05-Mar-2012
Gratterpalm, the advertising agency, is reported to be planning to set up a 15,000 sq ft office on Whitehall Road in Leeds. 23-Feb-2012
Intermarketing, the Leeds-based advertising agency with more than 50 staff, has undergone a management buy-out. 12-Dec-2011
Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertising agency, is reported to be considering 138-142 Holborn as a potential location for a new 170,000 sq ft headquarters from 2013. 24-Oct-2011
RAM Active Media has acquired Brandplay UK, the operator of advertising systems in shopping centres, for an initial £0.1m. 19-Oct-2011
Havas, the advertising company, is setting up a 32,000 sq ft office at 60 St Martin's Lane in London's Covent Garden. 11-Jul-2011
Merle, the Glasgow-based advertising agency, has gone into liquidation and 14 staff will transfer to a new agency called Monkey. 02-Jun-2011
Ebiquity has acquired Echo Research, the advertising and media analysis firm with 45 staff in London, France, Singapore and the US, for up to £10m. 23-May-2011
Aegis Media is to consolidate its subsidiary advertising agencies into a single office at Regent's Place in London over the next few months. 26-Apr-2011
WPP, the advertising company, is considering plans to relocate its tax headquarters from Ireland back to the UK. 24-Mar-2011
Leo Burnett has acquired Airlock, the London-based digital advertising agency with 18 staff, for undisclosed terms. 14-Mar-2011
Media Sales Network, the Manchester-based advertising sales agency, has undergone a management buy-out from Unique Communications Group. 08-Mar-2011
Independent Media Distribution, the provider of content distribution and advertising data services, is to be acquired by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners for £34m. 01-Mar-2011
Tribal Group has sold the assets of its Tribal Resourcing advertising and e-solutions business to TMP (UK) for a nominal sum. 10-Feb-2011
Publicis is to acquire Chemistry Communications Group, the London-based advertising and marketing firm with 178 staff, for £14m. 27-Jan-2011
ThinkBDW has bought Robson Brown, the Newcastle-based advertising agency, out of administration, securing jobs for some of the 90 staff. 16-Dec-2010
Zolfo Cooper has been appointed administrator at Round 2's UK advertising business, with the loss of 85 jobs in Newcastle, 17 in Bath and 20 in London. 01-Dec-2010
ITV is to sell its 50% stake in the Screenvision cinema advertising business to US private equity fund Shamrock Capital Growth Fund II for £50m. 29-Sep-2010
Creston is to sell its London-based DLKW advertising business to the Lowe subsidiary of The IPG Group of Companies for £28m. 28-Jun-2010
STV Group is to sell Pearl & Dean, the cinema advertising firm, to a new company called Image for a nominal sum. 21-Apr-2010
Rapier, the advertising agency, is setting up a 25,000 sq ft office at the Battleship Building in London W2. 19-Apr-2010
Ebiquity is to acquire Xtreme Information Services, the international advertising monitoring firm with 300 staff, from VS&A for £18m. 29-Mar-2010
Robson Brown, the Newcastle-based advertising and marketing agency with 95 staff, has been acquired by Round2 of the US. 10-Mar-2010
United Business Media has acquired Game Advertising Online, the New Zealand-based online advertising agency, for up to £4.5m, in order to expand its TechWeb subsidiary. 24-Feb-2010
Media Square has acquired Chick Smith Trott, the London-based advertising agency, from Cagney for £0.4m. 18-Jan-2010
RAM Investment Group has acquired Estates Media Partners, the supplier of digital media and advertising to shopping malls, for £0.3m. 31-Dec-2009
T4 Media has acquired Alvern Media, the Croydon-based outdoor advertising company with seven staff. 23-Nov-2009
Primesight is to open a new office in Manchester over the next few weeks, with the transfer of ten staff from its recently-acquired Titan outdoor advertising business in Liverpool. 12-Nov-2009
TrainFX has bought the assets of the ASG Media outdoor advertising business out of administration. 11-Nov-2009
Zoom Media has bought Gym Screen Media, the operator of digital advertising screens at 160 venues, from Media 42 for undisclosed terms. 04-Nov-2009
Regional Advertising Company, the Derby-based provider of advertising sales services to regional publishers, has gone into liquidation. 22-Jul-2009
Vision Media Group, the Cheadle-based advertising company previously known as ScreenFX, has gone into administration through Tenon Recovery. 16-Jul-2009
Channel 4 and BSkyB are considering plans to combine their advertising sales teams, in order to cut costs and help them compete with ITV. 25-May-2009
Vision Media Group has agreed terms for the sale of its TrainTV division to RAM Investment Group for an initial £0.9m, in order to focus on its Cheadle-based outdoor advertising screens business. 07-May-2009
JCDecaux is to shed up to 30 of the 650 jobs at its outdoor advertising business. 07-May-2009
Lowe Worldwide, the advertising agency, has appointed Cushman & Wakefield to find a suitable 30,000 sq ft office in London's West End. 09-Mar-2009
Five is considering plans to shed up to 90 of the 270 jobs in its TV broadcasting business, following a fall in advertising revenue. 28-Jan-2009
Twist Communications has gone into administration and the business of the Coleshill-based advertising agency has been transferred to WAA of Sutton Coldfield. 27-Jan-2009
Clear Channel Outdoor is to shed 80 of the 840 jobs in its outdoor advertising business, affecting up to 20 offices and depots nationwide. 08-Dec-2008
Bgroup is planning to increase the staff at its Newcastle-based advertising agency from 22 to 30 over the next 12 months. 03-Oct-2008
WPP, the advertising agency, is considering plans to relocate its UK headquarters to Ireland for tax reasons. 29-Sep-2008
Global Radio is to set up a nationwide network of 35 Heart-branded radio stations, in order to offer an improved service to advertisers. 16-Sep-2008
Omnicom, the advertising firm, is looking to set up a new 400,000 sq ft office in London, as its existing site at Bishops Bridge Road will be demolished to make way for a rail link. 11-Aug-2008
Poulters, the Leeds-based advertising and public relations firm, is to be closed by parent company Bezier with the loss of up to 42 jobs. 05-Jun-2008
Essentially is to acquire Sportseen, the Twickenham-based sports advertising company, for £9m. 29-Apr-2008
ITV has appointed Grant Thornton to find a buyer for its Carlton Screen cinema advertising business. 21-Jan-2008
Internet Business Group is to merge with TMN, the online media and advertising group. 17-Dec-2007
Ten Alps has acquired Multimedia Arts, the Manchester-based online video advertising production business, for less than £0.2m. 30-Nov-2007
WPP is in negotiations to acquire a 100,000 sq ft office at the Qube development in London W1 for one of its advertising subsidiaries. 28-Nov-2007
Media Corporation has acquired Interactive Consulting, the internet advertising firm trading as Nash Digital, for £0.2m. 14-Nov-2007
Mission Marketing Group has raised £5m in a share placing to fund organic growth and acquisitions for its marketing communications and advertising business. 24-Oct-2007
SMG is to sell its Primesight outdoor advertising business to GMT Communications Partners for £62m. 03-Sep-2007
DoubleClick, the digital advertising company, is to relocate its London headquarters to a 16,000 sq ft office at 180 Great Portland Street. 13-Aug-2007
Daily Mail & General Trust is looking to sell off its Loot classified advertising magazine, while its Buy & Sell magazine in Ireland has been sold to Naldin for £13m. 19-Jul-2007
I-design is to raise £3.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its cash machine advertising business. 16-Jul-2007
WCRS, the advertising agency, is to set up a 60,000 sq ft office at 60 Great Portland Street in London. 09-Jul-2007
Ten Alps is to acquire Mongoose Media, the London-based factual media advertising sales company with 19 staff, for up to £3.4m. 26-Jun-2007
Aegis is to acquire the online advertising business of Bluestreak of the US for £6.3m. 26-Jun-2007
Ekay has acquired Campaign Management Associates, the Guernsey-based advertising agency, for £0.2m. 22-Jun-2007
WPP has acquired 24/7 Real Media, the US internet advertising group, for £328m. 21-May-2007
ScreenFX is in discussions to sell its shopping centre advertising business to a major advertising company by the summer, in order to focus on its other screen-based operations. 17-May-2007
WPP is to close its United London advertising agency with the transfer of some of the 25 staff to its Grey agency. 04-Apr-2007
Ten Alps has acquired Atalink, the London-based media and advertising sales company with 42 staff, from Euromoney Institutional Investor for £1.8m. 03-Apr-2007
Avanti Screenmedia is to demerge its satellite division into a new company called Avanti Communications, in order to focus on the provision of advertising screens for pubs and shopping centres. 19-Mar-2007
Media Square has sold Digital Advertising & Marketing, the London-based online advertising technology company trading as Tangozebra, to DoubleClick for £15m. 02-Mar-2007
Emap is said to be planning to shed 150 jobs from its magazine operations, following a fall in advertising revenue. 12-Feb-2007
Cabtivate, the Edinburgh-based company that installs advertising screens in taxis, has gone into provisional liquidation through Begbies Traynor. 24-Jan-2007
Independent Media Distribution has acquired Optimad Media Systems, the London-based provider of web services to the TV, print and outdoor advertising sectors, for £3m. 02-Jan-2007
Creston has acquired PAN Advertising, the Surrey-based healthcare advertising company, for up to £19m. 05-Dec-2006
ScreenFX is looking to raise £5m in a share placing to secure the future of its digital advertising business and expand its network of screens in 2007. 30-Nov-2006
Ekay has acquired Wallace Barnaby & Associates, the Guernsey-based marketing and advertising agency, for £1.7m. 28-Nov-2006
The Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers are planning to shed up to 35 journalist jobs and 25 other staff, following a fall in advertising revenue. 30-Oct-2006
Different is planning to expand the 35-strong workforce at its Newcastle-based advertising agency by up to 20% over the next few years, and is in the process of relocating to a larger £1m office. 05-Oct-2006
SMG is looking to sell its Pearl & Dean cinema advertising and its Primesight outdoor advertising operations, in order to focus on TV, radio and the internet. 14-Sep-2006
Media Square has acquired a majority stake in Leonhardt & Kern, the German advertising agency with 50 staff, for undisclosed terms. 30-Aug-2006
Viacom Outdoor is to spend £72m transforming its advertising sites at London Underground stations, and a new team of 25 managers is being recruited. 13-Jun-2006
Grey, the advertising agency, is to relocate its London headquarters from Great Portland Street to a 60,000 sq ft office in Marylebone Road. 12-Jun-2006
Clear Channel Outdoor has acquired the UK business of Van Wagner, the London-based outdoor advertising company with 20 staff. 25-May-2006
Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired two online media businesses for £46m, including dating company Allegran and automotive advertiser Data Media & Retail, in order to expand its Associated Newspapers division. 09-May-2006
ScreenFX is to raise £3m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its digital advertising screens in shopping centres. 06-Apr-2006
Maiden, the outdoor advertising company, is to be acquired by US-owned Titan Outdoor for £11m. 15-Mar-2006
Maiden, the outdoor advertising company with a market valuation of about £40m, is expected to be put up for sale, having appointed NM Rothschild to consider its strategic options. 21-Dec-2005
Ekay is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund acquisitions and the geographical expansion of its advertising business. 07-Nov-2005
News International has acquired Propertyfinder, the online classified advertising business, for £14m. 03-Nov-2005
Archant is to shed about 30 jobs at its Norfolk-based newspaper publishing business, which will mainly affect its advertisement production department. 05-Oct-2005
Aegis Group is to acquire Brindley Advertising, the Irish advertising agency, for an initial £2.6m. 20-Sep-2005