By Stuart Smith on November 14, 2012
Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that is, except senior Interpublic management. Brien (left) is a dynamic, no-nonsense, deal-cutter, inured to the ways of media-buying, but the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged AOL, commonwealth, exxon, Frank Mergenthaler, golin harris, goodby silverstein & partners, grey, Gustavo Martinez, Harris Diamond, hsbc, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, JWT, L'Oreal, Laurence Boschetto, Luca Lindner, lufthansa, Marion Harper, mccann, mediabrands, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, octagon, weber shandwick, WPP
By Staff on May 24, 2012
At least that’s what we think they’re doing, digital ad exchanges being one of the more mystifying elements of an increasingly mystifying media business. Microsoft and WPP’s Real Media Group, a division of 24/7 Real Media, have signed a three-year deal to the make the Microsoft Advertising Exchange their exclusive third-party digital advertising exchange, basically [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged 24/7 real media, AOL, bing, doubleclick, google, hotmail, marketers, microsoft advertising exchange, msn, online ad exchange, publishers, real media group, rik van der kooi, Sir Martin Sorrell, skype, WPP, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on February 2, 2012
The numbers for Facebook’s forthcoming IPO (share offer) are truly staggering: the offer of a tiny tranche of stock could raise $10bn, the company might be valued at around $100bn and founder Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) will be worth around $27bn, making him one of the richest people in the world. And the company only started [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged advertising, AOL, apple, entertainment brands, facebook ipo, games developers, google, Mark Zuckerberg, payment revenue, valuation, yahoo
By Staff on November 22, 2011
This is a funny one: Guardian newspaper owner Guardian News & Media is trying hard to expand in the US but, in the process, is trying to sell ContentNext Media, publisher of the PaidContent and mocoNews tech sites, both of which are popular in the US. The Guardian has been recruiting journalists in the US [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Miller, AOL, auto trader, contentnextmedia, guardian, guardian media group, guardian website, Mike Arrington, moconews, paidcontent, techcrunch, us
By Stephen Foster on March 10, 2011
Omnicom has signed what it calls ‘sensible collaborative agreements’ with AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo to, among other things, share online data. The deals, which follow a similar agreement with Google last year, will give Omnicom’s agencies the ability to target advertising to particular locations, ages and demographics across the web’s biggest media networks. Omnicom will [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged AOL, communispace, google, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Microsoft, omnicom, publicis groupe, razorfish, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2011
One-time market-leading ISP AOL has been trying to reinvent itself as an online content provider since it split from Time Warner in 2009 and now CEO Tim Armstrong has bet the ranch on Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post, the left-leaning political super blog. AOL is paying $315m for the Huff Post ($300m in cash) [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged AOL, Arianna Huffington, daily beast, huffington post, mapquest, moviefone, newsweek, Tim Armstrong, time warner, Tina Brown
By Stephen Foster on December 1, 2010
Poor old MySpace, it’s like a patient in the terminal illness ward that has defied the best efforts of even the most expensive medics. Now News Corporation COO Carey Chase, who seems to be discussing News issues quite freely these days, has admitted that News would consider a sale or a partnership with the likes [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged AOL, Carey Chase, facebook, James Murdoch, myspace, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, yahoo
By Angie Dean on September 29, 2010
The current deal frenzy we’re seeing in sectors from personal care to food appears to be spreading to the internet’s more valuable publishing assets. Game Show Network (GSN), owned by US cable firm Directv and Sony Pictures, has bought CPMStar, one of the biggest online content marketing networks, to add to its existing 74 million [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged AOL, cpmstar, game show network, John Zaccario, Mike Arrington, techcrunch, Tim Armstrong
By Stephen Foster on April 7, 2010
Which the hapless ISP bought from its British owners for a chunky $850m just two years ago. AOL itself was the agent of probably the biggest botched deal in media history when it ‘bought’ massive media conglomerate Time Warner in 2000 with $164bn of Warner money, allegedly to create the world’s first all-media giant. A [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged AOL, Bebo, big media
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