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I hope no-one from WPP’s GroupM is planning to break bread with boss Sir Martin Sorrell this weekend because it could prove a daunting experience. Sainsbury’s has decided to keep its £60m media account, one of the UK’s biggest, with ...

M&C Saatchi worldwide has bought a stake, presumably a minority, in Brazilian creative agency Santa Clara. Headed by CEO Ulisses Zamboni and CCO Fernando Campos, Santa Clara is headquartered in Sao Paulo. Brazil is top of every agency’s wish list ...

It’s not just WPP, Publicis, Omnicom and Dentsu Aegis who have been busy acquiring marcoms businesses but also IBM Interactive Experience, Lake Capital, Accenture, McKinsey, Capital One, SingTel BlueFocus and Alibaba. A report by the boutique M&A advisory firm Ciesco ...

With the recent appointment of 72andSunny to their roster, it sounds as if things may be changing at Lynx/Axe. So when asked to suggest a ‘modern classic’ campaign, I thought it was worth highlighting some of the great work BBH ...

New figures from marketing effectiveness consultancy R3 show that Publicis Groupe (above) led the way in mergers and acquisitions in 2014, thanks to its mega $3.7bn deal to buy US tech consultancy Sapient. The deal actually closed this year but ...

There’s money in that thar content. Already this week we’ve seen Publicis announce a bid for news agency Relaxnews and Havas tie up a sharing deal with NewsCred. Now it’s emerged that Vice Media co-founder and CEO Shane Smith (below) ...

I loathe reading PR puff pieces that masquerade as thought-pieces or columns, so I’ll do my best here to avoid this article turning into something that just promotes what Engine is doing. I promise. But the last few weeks have ...

A little more light has been shining on the murky world of media buying, this time from Australia. Dentsu Aegis Network there has admitted that it negotiates ‘value banks’ (annual volume bonuses) with media companies, something that has attracted the ...

Hyperactive Publicis Groupe, now the proud owner of $3.7bn Sapient, is tying up a much smaller deal – but an interesting one – for French press agency Relaxnews. Publicis is bidding €15m for Relaxnews, which employs about 100 people. Relaxnews, ...

Interpublic has joined the slew of marcoms biggies reporting Q4 2014 results and full year figures and it appears to be motoring nicely. Organic growth in Q4 was 4.8 per cent, down on the year as a whole where it ...