Finance
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Are the ad holding companies becoming vampire squids in their search for production money?
Back in 2009 Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi called investment bank Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid…relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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German publisher snaps up UK institution Radio Times
To those of a certain age the notion of the venerable Radio Times being snapped up by a German publisher…
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Saatchi boss Robert Senior quits in yet another surprise from Publicis Groupe
So farewell then Robert Senior Boss of Saatchi & Saatchi And latterly Publicis Communications (GB) (with apologies to EJ Thribb,…
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Does Mirror plus Express signal a route to national newspaper salvation?
Will anything come from a resumption of talks between Trinity Mirror and Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspapers and…
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WPP’s Sorrell emerges as ‘power of one’ fan too – the bigger the better
We haven’t heard from WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell for a while – well everybody deserves a break and it looks…
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Leo Burnett North America puts media tech expert Swinand in charge
Lose a big account and people seem to go missing too. Last year Publicis-owned Leo Burnett lost McDonald’s to Omnicom’s…
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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: why “change” is our media word for 2017
On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David get excited about “change” – the ID Comms Media Word of 2017 (in…
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What’s next for Adam Crozier and ITV?
ITV CEO Adam Crozier is joining Costa and Premier Inn owner Whitbread as a non-exec, suggesting that his exit from…
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Scott Galloway’s secrets of successful brands
Why do some brands win and others fail in this wonderful interconnected world? Win year after year it seems. Here’s…
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