Analysis

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the sudden wave of CEOs departing UK media agencies. Four big names have left media leadership positions in one week. They ask what’s causing the rush to depart/escape/replace (delete as appropriate) ...

How do you plan for uncertainty? The recent IPA Bellwether Report reminds us that the current political climate and on-going Brexit negotiations have left us collectively holding our breath. While we look to the future, we have to consider multiple ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the rumours (and plausible evidence) that one of the major advertising holding companies will become an acquisition target for one of the big consultant or audit firms. These whispers first became ...

An interview with Richard Glasson, CEO of Hogarth Worldwide. 1/So-called production agencies started as entities that provided the heavy lifting for creative agencies on clients such as retailers. How has this changed? Digital and content have changed everything. When we ...

Adweek’s Agency Spy has a regular called Revolving Doors, chronicling the ins and outs of agency land, mostly in the US. We might have to start one here judging by the increasing number of comings and goings, especially among media ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David reflect on what’s driving media pitches in 2017 and what to expect to take centre stage in pitch briefs during 2018. The start of Q4 is a good time to reflect on the ...

Last time I mentioned the importance of understanding ‘the role of advertising’: I should have written the role of THE advertising – the ad or campaign in question. The role of advertising is to sell: a product, a service, an ...

News stories often espouse doomsday scenarios in the field of AI. The likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking believe increased automation could annihilate jobs, worsen inequality, cause political upheaval and potentially even spell the end of the human race. ...

Analyst Brian Wieser’s musings for Pivotal Research are exhaustively followed in the ad and media businesses and he came out with a winner the other day, on agency holding companies’ ability to evolve and reinvent themselves. “They are more like ...