By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay last rose from £1,m to £1.3m (relatively modest by current CEO standards, as he says) but his pay and benefits package rose from £4.23m to £6.77m including a payment from WPP’s short term bonus scheme. On top of this he received nearly £5.6m of shares under the company’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged bonuses, brandedge, digital, infosys, John Wren, kantar, Maurice Levy, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession planning, tns, WPP, £1.3m base pay, £13m package
By Staff on April 30, 2012
Online’s share of the media market is going up in all markets, to 20 per cent and over in the US and UK for example. But search remains by far the biggest sector although there are important developments under way, from the growth of mobile to the possibilities of Facebook. Here Larry K. H. Jenkins [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Research | Tagged baidu, bing, China, covario, cpc, facebook, google, Larry Jenkins, Microsoft, online, paid search, russia, search marketing, seo, yahoo, yantex
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2012
New generations are a terrifying thing (at least to older people) but the so-called Generation Z (people born after 1995) seem more like amiable aliens according to a new US and UK study by JWT. Compared to the hairy monsters and social revolutionaries of the 1960s and 70s and the punks of the early 80s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Research | Tagged Ann Mack, facebook, gadgets, gen z:digital in their dna, generation z, ipads, job fears, jwt report, punks, Will Palley
By Staff on April 27, 2012
Marcoms giant WPP grew its like-for-like revenue four per cent in the first quarter of 2011, slightly ahead of budget and roughly in line with recent figures from biggest rivals Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. Latin America was the fastest-growing region with the double-dip recession UK doing surprisingly well at three per cent. Pleasingly for boss [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, first quarter results, ipsos, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, kantar, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns custom, vizeum, WPP
By Staff on April 26, 2012
Havas-owned Arena Media has been commissioned by the UK’s agency trade association the IPA to create TimeScape, a new visualisation tool for the fourth wave of its TouchPoints research – a comprehensive insight in to how Britain is consuming media. The tool has been developed with Arena Media’s Strategic Hub, led by the agency’s head [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged arena media, diaries, havas, ipa, Lynne Robinson, Marquin Smith, Martin Greenbank, timescape, touchpoints research, uk agency trade body, UK media consumption
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
The Brits and the French spent much of the 18th century vying for control of India (the Brits won, of course) and the two old adversaries seem to be busily engaged in another contest to the death on the sub-continent, this time in all things digital with respective national marcoms flagships WPP and Publicis Groupe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aig, brandedge, digital marketing, digitas, hsbc, India, indigo, infosys, kantar, leo burnett, mysupermarket, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, tata, thomas cook, Vikas Tandon, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 23, 2012
That annual entertainment ‘the battle of Sir Martin’s money’ is on its way with WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay set to rise from £1m to £1.25m which, in turn, will trigger much larger bonuses as these are based (via a number of obscure formulae) on base pay. WPP is due to report its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged aegis, bonus, Eric Schmidt, first quarter results, google, Interpublic, ipsos, John Wren, kantar, Larry Page, Mark Read, Michael Roth, omnicom, pay rise, salary, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns sofres, WPP
By Staff on April 23, 2012
McCann London has just produced its latest ‘Moody Britain’ survey (the last was in 2010) and it reveals a rather surprising degree of stoicism among Brits who are still being battered by economic headwinds although we’re still not very keen on over-paid executives, benefit cheats, Americans and politicians. Asked “what’s making you angry about Britain [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics, Research | Tagged america, Australia, BBC, benefit cheats, coalition government, fat cats, financial crisis, immigration, mccann london, moddy vritain, nhs, Nikki Crumpton, royal family, survey, targeted anger, turning point, voters
By Stuart Smith on April 20, 2012
It may of course be a coincidence. But I suspect not, given the close timing. No sooner has Professor Terence Stephenson, speaking on behalf of 200,000 doctors, called for a ban on ‘junk food’ brands sponsoring sports events than up pops another prominent medic, advocating blanket ‘fat taxes’ on soft drinks and chocolates. Next step, [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics, Research | Tagged bannist tendency, bird flu, british journal of nutrition, coca-cola, coi, Dr Mike Rayner, fat taxes, national health service, obesity, obesity epidemic, pasty tax, Professor Susan Jebb, Professor Terence Stephenson, Stuart Smith
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