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By Stephen Foster on May 15, 2013
When I was at Marketing Week – decades ago – it made a fortune: display advertising flourished on the free circulation title and classified was a positive goldmine delivering an annual profit of at least £2m. Times have changed alas; and investors in the City will wonder if Centaur Media has changed accordingly. Today the [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged centaur media, creative review, Geoff Wilmot, Marketing Week, money marketing, Patrick Taylor, print revenues, the lawyer, Tim Potter
By Stephen Foster on June 28, 2011
Marketing Week editor Mark Choueke has responded in no uncertain terms (see comments) to my report on the travails at MW publisher Centaur Communications. In it I suggested that MW might be destined to go the same way as many of the other titles in Centaur’s marketing division, like Design Week and New Media Age [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged campaign, centaur communications, design week, Graham Sherren, Jocelyn Stevens, Lyn Ayling, Mark Choueke, Marketing Week, marketing week communications, new media age, online-only, Sarah Gilchriest, Stephen Foster, Tim Carron Brown
By Stephen Foster on June 28, 2011
And how long will it be before other leading Centaur titles like Marketing Week, Creative Review, The Lawyer and Money Marketing follow Design Week and New Media Age into online-only publishing? That’s where Design Week and New Media Age are headed anyway while Pitch, the website aimed primarily at ad agencies, has lost all three [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged brand republic, campaign, centaur, creative review, cutbacks, david benady, design week, haymarket, Louise Black, marketing, Marketing Week, new media age, online, pitch, sonnoo singh
By Stephen Foster on April 14, 2011
Actually the biggest surprise about this is that Bullmore, one-time creative director and chairman of JWT and then a long-serving director of WPP, hadn’t won the Advertising Association’s Mackintosh Medal years ago. Bullmore, who’s also well-known for his brilliant agony aunt columns in Management Today and Campaign, presided over JWT as it lost its seemingly [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged berkeley square, j. walter thompson, Jeremy Bullmore, John Treasure, JWT, Marketing Week, saatchi & saatchi, WPP
By Angie Dean on January 13, 2011
It always looked like a mistake (in hindsight of course) for the US not to push harder to shunt the 49th parallel border between it and Canada a bit further north, making Canadians even colder and giving the US Vancouver Bay. This historical insight seems borne out by UK researcher FutureBrand’s latest survey of top [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged 49th parallel, canada, futurebrand, Lou Cooper, m&c saatchi, Marketing Week, top country brands, uk, united states, vancouver bay, visit britain
By Stephen Foster on December 9, 2010
You have to hand it to Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, he’s certainly a trouper whether it’s taking the flak for praising Hitler or bunging the Labour Party a million quid for watering down a tobacco ad ban. Or allowing his battered and bruised visage to be used in an ad for Hublot watches. Bernie [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Bernie Ecclestone, formula one, hublot watches, london mugging, Mark Ritson, Marketing Week
By Stephen Foster on November 8, 2010
All the way from Australia where the voluble marketing columnist toils as associate professor of marketing at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Well it’s hardly Harvard is it? Anyway Ritson is a good writer but his damning put-down of the Independent’s bid to revive its fortunes begs a few questions, not least that he’s [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, i, Independent, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mark Ritson, Marketing Week, melbourne business school, Rupert Murdoch, Sun
By Stephen Foster on September 7, 2010
Well it might be as seven per cent shareholder BlackRock, one of the giants of the global investment business, has just increased its stake from seven per cent to 12 per cent. Centaur, publisher of Marketing Week, Design Week, Creative Review and The Lawyer is a minnow in publishing terms with a market cap of [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged blackrock, centaur media, Geoff Wilmot, Graham Sherren, Marketing Week
By David O'Reilly on July 19, 2010
One hesitates to take issue with Mark Ritson, the esteemed marketing consultant and columnist on Marketing Week but he does seem a little confused in his latest fulminations about BP. According to Ritson the recent RBS “buy” notice on BP shares is bizarre, because the brand is in “negative brand equity.” Yet he later maintains [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Politics | Tagged BP, Mark Ritson, marketing, Marketing Week, RBS, Skoda, Tesco
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