Ad Tech

Dentsu Aegis has bought international mobile agency Fetch Media for an undisclosed sum. Fetch was founded by James Connelly and Declan Reddington in 2009 and currently employs 96 people in the UK, US, Germany and Hong Kong. Dentsu Aegis Northern ...

Foreign interlopers often receive a raw deal in the good old US of A, think of all the British agencies that came unstuck over there (most notably Saatchi & Saatchi when it bought Bates) as the natives extract stupendously high ...

Up to 85 per cent of digital ad impressions are are fraudulent or, at best, unprovable according to Julie Fleischer, Kraft’s director of data, content and media, speaking at Ad Age’s recent Data Conference. Julie isn’t too worried as there ...

The demise of the ad agency appears all set. A tombstone prepared. The obituaries written. The lilies artfully arranged. Which is a perfect time for the AdForum 2014 Summit. The “Summit” is where a gathering, gaggle, school or pack (choose ...

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy (left) has finally pulled of the transformational deal he’s been looking for with a successful $3.7bn bid for tech-cum-agency company Sapient. Sapient Corp, the owner of digital ad agency Sapient Nitro, was valued on Wall ...

Here’s a cute online launch film for the Honda Civic Type R from Wieden & Kennedy. It breaks today. “Cute” might not seem the right word for this 290 bhp turbo-charged boy-racer’s wet dream that achieves 0-62 mph in fewer ...

Samaritans, the leading suicide prevention charity is launching Samaritans Radar – a free web application that monitors friends’ Tweets, producing alerts if it spots anyone who may be struggling to cope. The app gives users a second chance to see ...

Investment in digital video advertising is exploding and this is reflected by a recent IAB study, which found digital advertising spend to be up 16.6 per cent to £3.5 billion for the first half of 2014. The investment stream is ...

Martha Greene’s production company Pointblank Productions, with offices in London and New York, has opened a new photography division. Photographers include Matthew Beedle, Ryan Edy, Chris Floyd, Nigel Harniman, Tom Hull, Ben Monk and Alexandre Weinberger. Most have worked extensively ...