Finance
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CHI and Now wait anxiously for £55m Argos decision
There will be a few sweaty palms in two London agencies every time the phone rings over the next week…
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Nick Baughan of Maxus: seven questions smart clients should ask media agencies in the pitch process
Nick Baughan (left) is managing director of Maxus, the newest WPP media agency and the fastest-growing in the UK. Here…
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WPP’s Sorrell may need to re-examine emerging markets and digital strategies in a low margin world
WPP’s shares took a powder yesterday as analysts digested the unwelcome news that it had not achieved the margins desired…
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Profits soar at Adam Crozier’s ITV – but that may make the cash-rich UK broadcaster a takeover target
Thee late Lord Thomson, who lost a packet when he owned The Times and Sunday Times in the UK, also…
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Miles Nadal’s MDC Partners keeps growing although ‘ordinary’ profits remain over the horizon
MDC Partners, which describes itself as a ‘business transformation company’ these days, continues its high-wire act. Reading the small print…
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Samsung blasts Apple with Apple-style ads
The world’s biggest ad war is between Samsung and Apple and Samsung agency 72andSunny has produced a new campaign in…
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Facebook pays $19bn for ad-free messager WhatsApp
No-one could accuse Facebook of either sitting on its mountain of cash or failing to respond to fears that its…
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Why it will cost IPG more than $60m to fix Europe
What on earth is Interpublic (IPG), which owns McCann, Draftfcb (or is it just FCB?), media agencies UM and Initiative…
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Ian Maynard of network: why production specialists are joining the client top table
Ian Maynard, head of marketing and business development director of London-based creative and production specialists network, examines the way clients…
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