Following the success of last year’s event we got our dancing shoes on and made our way to the Brindley Rooms in Castlefield for our second annual charity Ceilidh. In total we raised £787 through ticket sales, a raffle and silent auction of a Spa Day for two and signed England football shirt. All the [Read More]
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
2nd Annual Charity Ceilidh Night for MEC Manchester
Team MEC 10k superstars
It may not have been the most ideal weather to run in but on Sunday the 18th May thirteen brave runners from the Manchester office faced the scorching sun to complete the Bupa 10k in Manchester. Katie Milne, Emily Ross, Alex Wade, Paul Chisnall, Alexandra Lever, Sachin Desai, Richard George, Rob Stanley-Jones, Chris Greer, Lucy [Read More]
Immediate to acquire sport and craft portfolios from Future Publishing
Immediate Media has announced the proposed acquisition of Future Publishing’s sport and craft portfolios. On completion, more than 20 magazines and 4.7 million monthly unique users will be added to Immediate Media’s growing digital portfolio. Future’s Sport portfolio is predominantly cycling focused and includes magazines such as Cycling Plus, Procycling and Mountain Biking UK. Their [Read More]
5th Mobile Engage Conference
MEC Manchester was very excited to attend the 5th Mobile Engage Conference by the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) earlier this month. It was held at the Mermaid Theatre, London and involved a range of expert speakers discussing key trends in the mobile marketing space. Mobile advertising reached £1 billion in 2013, accounting for 16 per [Read More]
Google punishes eBay for poor SEO practices
For those in the SEO industry the past week has been very busy with Google releasing two new updates to their ever evolving algorithm. Google confirmed it has rolled out the Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0 updates. But what are these updates? What is Panda 4.0 Panda was first released in February 2011 The [Read More]
The latest from RAJAR
With the green light from the Competition Commission to proceed with the takeover of Real and Smooth (subject to the sell-off of eight stations to Communicorp), Global have restructured both the Heart and Smooth radio networks. The re-brand of the Real Radio network to Heart and the Gold network to Smooth has resulted in growth [Read More]
Brighton SEO 2014
As the world of search and SEO is forever changing, it’s essential for us to regularly attend industry conferences to keep up to date with the latest goings on in the search marketing sphere. Last month, MEC headed down south again to attend Brighton SEO – one of the largest search marketing conferences in the [Read More]
Season Premier of Game of Thrones Viewing Patterns
For many MECers Monday evenings are conquered by Game of Thrones fever. Tuesday mornings are spent debating the intricacies of Westeros war politics, the mystery of who killed Joffrey and whether winter will ever actually arrive. But for many, the appointment to view time slot doesn’t fit in to busy schedules. Here in AV we [Read More]