Technology
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WPP and IPG report dismal Q1 2025
How much attention should we pay to the first quarter numbers (dismal) from WPP and IPG? After all, we’ve yet…
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Musk’s Tesla needs some urgent brand repairs
Agencies have been arguing until they’re blue in the face that brand building is the key to sustained corporate growth.…
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IPA Bellwether survey paints a grim picture for UK main media
When the going gets tough the tough…run for cover, might be the motto of the world’s marketers despite being forever…
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Ad holding co’s new two tiers – Publicis and Omnicom then the others
Omnicom posted 3.4% organic growth in Q1 2025 although net income fell sharply by 9.7%. Media and advertising led the…
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Andrew King: the future of television: where creativity meets technology
Television has come a long way since John Logie Baird’s demonstration at Selfridges department store in 1925. What began as…
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Is space the next frontier for Out of Home ads?
As Amazon’s Jeff Bezos prepares to catapult wife-to-be and her pals, including warbler Katy Perry, into space in advance of…
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WPP: Is AI really a strategy?
Interesting interview with WPP CEO Mark Read in yesterday’s Sunday Times (subscription required to get behind its hefty paywall) with…
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WPP ramps up data wars with InfoSum acquisition
WPP has bought data platform InfoSum for an undisclosed sum, reuniting the claimed privacy-compliant platform with Brian Lesser who returned…
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Accenture Song shuffles again as it tries to gain momentum in London
Accenture Song is shuffling the deckchairs again, bringing Accenture Song, the agency (formerly Karmarama), under Droga5 in the UK, creating…
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