Finance
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Co-founder Ian Priest quits Chime’s VCCP
What’s former IPA president and VCCP co-founder Ian Priest going to do next? Priest (left) is leaving Chime Communications, the…
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WPP beefs up sports offer with new rights agency ESP
WPP is launching a sports rights agency called ESP, representing Manchester City, the England and Wales Cricket Board and NBA’s…
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P&G’s eagerly-awaited media review cranks into action – which is all Publicis Groupe needs
We predicted two weeks ago that Procter & Gamble, along with numerous other big global advertisers, would be reviewing its…
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Publicis Groupe tightens its belt with pay freeze
Is Maurice Levy’s Publicis Groupe suffering a nasty dose of indigestion? Agency Spy in the US reports that Publicis has…
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Departing Lowe CEO Michael Wall joins Mother
Michael Wall (left), who was last reported as preparing ‘the roadmap’ for the merger of Interpublic’s Lowe (where he was…
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Elliott Management sets course for Michael Roth’s Interpublic – $27 a share or $11bn
Most people in adland have been rather mystified by Interpublic’s decision to merge US agency Mullen with global network Lowe…
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Less is more for ITV as media agencies all seem to be asking for the same price
I note that ITV’s ad revenue continues to go up even as its audience share declines, ad revenue up 11…
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Zenith buys Czech ‘performance agency’ B2B Group
Once upon a time media agencies did what it said on the tin – planned and bought media time and…
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IPG merges Lowe yet again – this time into Mullen
It’s amazing how brands get watered down in adland. Interpublic is now merging the Lowe network with middle-ranking US agency…
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