Finance

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is reckoned to be on the brink of landing his second big acquisition, US-based programmatic advertising company MightyHive. MightyHive is run by former Google exec Peter Kim and advises clients on their digital media activities ...

Publicis Worldwide UK and Western Europe CEO Guy Wieynk (below) is leaving after nearly four years, a pretty successful stint which included winning Morrisons and Lastminute.com. Nick Farnhill is taking over in the UK. This looks like the first big ...

Might Sir Martin Sorrell (below), now installed as chairman of S4 Capital, the owner of content agency MediaMonks, be contemplating a bid for some or all of Kantar? Kantar, of course, is the data division of WPP, the company he ...

Much kerfuffle about a memo from WPP financial controller David Barker imposing a hiring freeze on the embattled group’s agencies, hardly a surprise as WPP as battling falling sales and revenues. Apparently WPP was planning to hire about 2,000 people ...

Enterprising agency Zulu Alpha Kilo likes to poke fun at the idiocies of the ad business and this time it’s the “World’s Worst RFP” (request for proposal), won by a giant data-driven consultancy. Which is what some big agencies want ...

The John Lewis Christmas ad from adam&eveDDB is due to land any day now – reportedly featuring Elton John warbling Your Song – and London’s Evening Standard thinks it has a clip from it here, revealed on Twitter. Before you ...

MediaMonk Sir Martin Sorrell revealed at a Campaign breakfast today that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment giant had offered 925p a share for his WPP back in 2012, just above what the share price is now (it used to be ...

Accenture Interactive is boosting its already sizeable footprint in Germany with the acquisition of Hamburg’s Kolle Rebbe, ranked as Germany’s seventh-largest ad agency. In January Accenture bought Mackevision, a leading producer of computer-generated imagery and content, while last year it ...

Staff exits follow agency restructurings – usually flagged as making companies more client-focussed, nimble and all the rest of it – as surely as night follows day. Now it’s happening at Lake Capital-owned Engine in London with an all-staff consultation ...