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Starcom Motive resigns as the new marketing director, Clare Salmon, puts account up for review.
ITV has announced a review of its pounds 10 million media business, prompting Starcom Motive to resign the account.
Starcom has worked on the business for a decade, but was informed by ITV's new marketing director, Clare Salmon, who is three months into the job, that the account was up for review.
According to Jim Marshall, the chairman of Starcom Group UK, the relationship between Starcom and ITV has been under strain for some time, prompting the agency to resign the business.
He said: 'It's been a long relationship, which has had its ups and downs with management and ownership changes. Most recently, the relationship has been a bit fraught with the trading aspect. We can't let a tiny part of our business impact upon the rest of our clients.'
At the start of 2004, Starcom and ITV were in dispute over the value of the Cadbury sponsorship of Coronation Street. ...