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Publicis Groupe’s new UK country manager Annette King, who left WPP’s Ogilvy Group last year, has announced her new management team and it’s a case of “here come the girls.” Former colleague OgilvyOne CEO Jo Coombs, is COO, OMD Worldwide’s ...

I don’t know Bob Greenberg. I’ve never met the bloke, never worked for him and never had him over for dinner. We’re not mates. I’m pretty sure the closest we’ve come to connecting is being in the same room together. ...

Renault is moving to a bespoke agency consisting of long-term creative partner Publicis and Omnicom’s OMD, brand and marketing head Bastien Schupp has told The Drum. Schupp says he considered bringing the whole caboodle in-house but decided against because of ...

We’ve noted the way media agencies seem to have ridden out the 2016 US ANA report into undisclosed media rebates and the like, based on their holding company owners’ published results anyway. But now the Wall Street Journal reports that ...

Bob Willott of Marketing Services Financial Intelligence (who knows about these things) reckons Sir Martin Sorrell (below) and his co-investors have made a £38m paper profit on his new venture S4 Capital which reversed into a company called Derriston and ...

Google and Facebook have profited mightily by being the first companies to achieve direct marketing at scale but life may be about to become more difficult. Despite the various scandals afflicting Facebook in particular and pressure from regulators both companies ...

The fall-out from the VML/Y&R merger to form VMLY&R has begun and former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has added his two penn’orth, telling MediaPost: “For what it’s worth, I would have branded it Y&R/VML, particularly as the VML ...

It’s VML on top London-wise in the VLMY&R merger (as if the new name didn’t tell us so) with VML’s London MD Amanda Farmer in charge of the new entity with ECD Harsh Kapadia as ECD and Andy Ortner as ...

WPP is indeed merging Y&R with digital network VML to form VMLY&R (bet there was some debate about the name order) to form what it calls a “brand experience agency.” VML’s Jon Cook will be global CEO with Y&R New ...