Lots of gossip over the weekend that S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been putting the finishing touches to a big deal, his biggest so far since kicking off S4 with the £300m acquisition of MediaMonks. In hindsight MediaMonks looks ...
Read More »The ‘bozos’ at WPP ‘made a mistake.’ Sorrell still won’t let go
We should all be used to it by now, but it seems that hell still hath no fury like Martin Sorrell scorned. The S4 Capital executive chairman didn’t hold back when talking about his departure from WPP at an online ...
Read More »ID Comms shakes up media business with PJL buy
Accenture may be wondering if its decision to pullout of media auditing to concentrate on programmatic media buying was wise as the move seems to have fired up the media auditing business. Long-time rival Ebiquity says it’s put on 25 ...
Read More »WPP boss Mark Read on working through the pandemic and the dreaded ageism
Here’s WPP CEO Mark Read telling Ad Age’s Jeanine Poggi what he thinks about working in lockdown, returning to the office (WPP has a lot of them of course), diversity and, on about 19 minutes, the dreaded ageism which landed ...
Read More »Why Visual Marketing Strategies Matter For Your Business
In the current age of constant distractions and visual stimuli, no business can do effective marketing without adding visual strategies to the mix. With millions of businesses vying for people’s attention on every platform, one of the best ways to ...
Read More »R/GA London wins United Colors of Benetton Group
Back in the 90s, Benetton was as famous for its inclusive advertising as it was for its colourful knitwear. The Italian brand has now put its hopes in R/GA to brighten up its 2020 customer experience by appointing the agency ...
Read More »Advertiser alliance tiptoes towards brand safety deal with social media giants
For advertisers dealing with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube is a bit like parents with a naughty teenager: no house parties while we’re away they say only to find there’s a marquee erected at the bottom of ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital sails serenely on – Covid or no Covid
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital booked a £500,000 loss for the six months to June 2020 but nobody bothers about that much these days (in the same period of 2019 it lost £8.8m) but its top line numbers continue their ...
Read More »Apple launches contentious privacy ad blitz – or does it?
Apple has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the world (again), this time by introducing a privacy feature to its forthcoming iOS 14 software that requires app developers to request permission from users to track them for ad ...
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