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By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2012
Bessie Lee sounds like a blues singer but she’s not, she’s head of WPP’s mighty media organisation GroupM in China. And now Lee (pictured), who began her career with WPP 23 years ago in Taiwan, has been promoted – to CEO of WPP China. Now this is interesting because, as far as we know, she’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged bates chi asia, Bessie Lee, ceo china, China, Eric Salama, groupm, Johnny Hornby, kantar, Paul Simons, restructuring, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession
By Stephen Foster on September 13, 2012
WPP’s 60 or so top managers – the likes of Bob Jeffrey at JWT, digital boss Mark Read, Kantar supremo Eric Salama – have been summoned to a week-long conference, starting October 1. Somewhere on the west coast of the US – for a whole week! So what, you may say. But these things don’t [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged Bob Jeffrey, Eric Salama, JWT, kantar, Mark Read, Sir Martin Sorrell, us west coast, WPP, wpp top managers
By Stephen Foster on August 31, 2012
The world’s biggest marcoms company WPP disappointed analysts with its half-year performance, failing to hit its growth target of four per cent, ending up at 3.6 per cent or ‘thereabouts.’ WPP is the only big marcoms company to own a research business, Kantar, the second-biggest in the world after Neilsen. But Kantar, headed by Eric [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Finance, News, Research | Tagged consumer insight, Eric Salama, kantar, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 27, 2012
Indian broadcaster NDTV (New Delhi TV) is suing WPP, claiming that Indian TV ratings system TAM, which is jointly owned by WPP’s Kantar Media and arch-rival Nielsen, is “corrupt,” falsely reducing its programme ratings and therefore its finances. WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell has been drawn into the fight (which he should probably have avoided [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR, Research | Tagged Eric Salama, Indian tv ratings, kantar media, ndtv, new delhi tv, nielsen, Sir Martin Sorrell, tam, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 1, 2012
WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been running around the broadcast studios this morning like the busy bee he is, trumpeting WPP first £1bn profits and record revenue of £10bn. And jolly impressive they are too; WPP is now (fairly) comfortably ahead of Omnicom in the profit stakes with a billion pounds to a billion dollars [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Research | Tagged 2011 results, aegis, Eric Salama, ipsos, kantar, Martin Lambie-Nairn, nielsen, omnicom, publicis groupe, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns sofres, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2012
On the face of it, yes, if WPP delivers £1.4bn profits (as expected) when it announces its 2011 results on Thursday. In 2010 WPP made £851m so the pocket tycoon must have been doing something right. Sir Martin Sorrell’s basic pay is expected to rise from £1m (where it has languished for a decade) to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged 2012 results, Andrew Robertson, banker bashing, bonus, Eric Salama, John Wren, kantar, Mark Read, Maurice Levy, news corporation, omnicom, pay rise, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns sofres, Vodafone, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 1, 2011
At the moment it’s a losing bet too: with all the big marcoms companies having now posted their third quarter results WPP is lagging the field with organic growth of just 4.9 per cent, thanks in large measure to a 0.2 per cent decline in its consumer insight division, research to you and me. Aegis, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, consumer insight, digital, Eric Salama, facebook, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, kantar, media planning and buying, omnicom, publicis groupe, research, shareholders, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns acquisition, vizeum, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 7, 2011
US-based Global Market Insite might not be able to spell but that hasn’t stopped WPP’s Kantar research division shelling out somewhere north of $26m to buy the company that operates online panels in North America, Europe and the Far East. WPP says it will be ‘aligned’ with Lightspeed Research which does roughly the same things. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged advertising, aegis, consumer insight, digital, Eric Salama, fortune 500, global market insite, google, ipsos, kantar, lightspeed research, media buying, nielsen, online panels, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns, WPP, xaxis
By Stephen Foster on August 4, 2011
Research used to be seen as a rather gentlemanly business, boffins beavering away on their inquiries and only interrupted now and then by the tedious business of selling their product to someone. But that was then. It’s a rather different (and very big) business these days as instanced by French firm Ipsos’ £525m purchase of [...]
Posted in Finance, News, Research | Tagged aegis, Eric Salama, ipsos, kantar, mediatranalytics, rapidview, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, theft accusation, tra, US court case, WPP, £525m deal
By Angie Dean on July 5, 2011
WPP-owned research giant TNS has turned to veteran designer Martin Lambie-Nairn to put some sparkle into the company, which WPP bought for £1.1bn in 2008. Lambie-Nairn, best known for his Channel 4, BBC and O2 design work, sold his company to WPP in 1999. In effect he will become creative director of TNS, revamping its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, BBC, Channel 4, creative director, Eric Salama, ipsos, kantar, Martin Lambie-Nairn, mori, tns, WPP
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