Ad Tech

Australia’s biggest digital agency DT is being rebadged as AKQA, giving WPP’s flagship digital agency AKQA a big presence in Australia and New Zealand for the first time. DT was owned by holding company STW which was bought by WPP ...

The digital universe is changing more rapidly than ever so an update is always useful. Here Rob Norman (below), global chief digital officer of WPP’s GroupM, the world’s biggest media buyer, outlines the likely future and its implications in his ...

In this week’s episode of #MediaSnack David and Tom discuss the the rallying cry issued by Procter & Gamble CMO Marc Pritchard at the IAB Annual Leadership Marketing conference. They argue that change is now coming to the digital ad ...

Agency trading desks continue to be the dominant model for programmatic ad buying, used as the principal approach for nearly 40 per cent of the world’s biggest brands, according to new research by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). However ...

In this episode of #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the vexed issue of accountability and how brands and agencies ensure they can truly track their media efforts, efficiency and effectiveness. Accountability is they argue the third pillar of the ...

The digitisation of London creative agencies continues apace with Lucas Peon (below), one-time CCO at WPP digital network Possible, replacing nine-year Veteran Russell Ramsey as ECD of J. Walter Thompson. Peon joined JWT as digital creative director last year. Ramsey, ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David continue the ID Comms 2017 theme of change, this time addressing the impact on media agencies. As with last week’s edition they seek to address the concerns of people in the business by ...

Here’s a video, courtesy of The Drum, from the CES show in Las Vegas. As well as the no doubt interesting exhibits it seems awash with agency types trying to bend a client’s ear. I see that WPP’s Xaxis is ...

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the marcoms sector grew in 2016 according to new research from M&A advisor Results International. There were 1,023 marcoms deals globally, rising from 979 in 2015 and 972 in 2014 In Q4 there were 238 ...