Read (below) is currently joint COO with Andrew Scott in the wake of Sir Martin Sorrell’s departure but he seems to be the front runner, speaking at WPP’s AGM this week and sending out a note to staff saying WPP ...

There’s just too much going on: the World Cup is almost upon us and the Martin Sorrell affair is putting advertising on the front pages – there’s fame for you. Royal Ascot is coming up (as famous these days for ...

Engine Group’s WCRS has won one of the most hotly contested pitches in the UK so far this year, landing price comparison site MoneySupermarket.com against tough competition Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and Wieden & Kennedy. MoneySupermarket surprised ...

It’s not unusual for someone to go for a quick one after work, which is what two WPP employees were doing last year when they say they espied (according to the FT) Sir Martin Sorrell entering what we might call ...

To Sorrento where over 400 delegates from the global Out of Home industry are gathered at the 59th FEPE International Congress to discuss the medium and its challenges. On the face of it most plants in the OOH garden are ...

Sir Martin Sorrell has five years to build his new “more agile” marcoms group – majoring on data, content and technology. Now who does that remind you of? It’s a pretty long list. Sorrell’s S4 Capital has £51m in equity ...

Virgin Media is launching new media “bundles,” doubling broadband speeds free for some customers (I’d better get one for all that money I pay them) via a new multi-media campaign from BBH, featuring Mr Speedy himself Usain Bolt. And what ...

I see from Campaign that Barclaycard is reviewing its ad agency although, for the life of me, I can’t recall a single recent Barclaycard ad despite the efforts of, latterly, Iris and before that BBH in a long stint. Like ...

We all make our pact with Google, whether we want to or not, and here’s old Big Data trying to seduce corporate big shots into the Google Cloud (and away from Amazon’s) – by predicting their future. It’s an interesting ...