Finance

The Publicis Groupe share price was rising unsteadily this morning – and WPP with it, in sympathy perhaps – after the collective panic attack that hit markets yesterday after Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun (below) reported growth falling by 0.3 per ...

Publicis Groupe is the first of the big ad holding companies to report its full year figures for 2018 and they’re a mixed bag, showing how hard it is in today’s marketplace for such companies. Organic revenue in 2018 rose ...

WPP via its GroupM media operation has achieved a coup, luring top-rated Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser to be its global president, business intelligence. Wieser spent eight years at Pivotal and has also worked at Interpublic’s Magna Global, Lehman ...

By Dino Myers-Lamptey Data breaches, Mark Zuckerberg’s senate appearances, Martin Lewis’ fake news playouts, undermining democracy accusations, tripling tax bills in the UK and paying kids to spy on their mobiles. This doesn’t sound like the achievements of a company ...

Out of home giant Clear Channel is finally to escape from the clutches of US radio operator iHeart Media which is restructuring to escape huge debts (a mere $20bn) incurred by private equity “investors.” Clear Channel is best known for ...

Out of Home (OOH) is a thriving medium in the media landscape, particularly due to the continued rise of digital. There has been ample investment by media owners into this area, which has culminated into a strong Digital Out of ...

We don’t often print press releases in full but this one from WPP won’t take long: WPP sells stake in Richard Attias & Associates WPP announces that, in line with its stated objective of simplifying its offer and focusing on ...

Centrica, British Gas as was, has joined a long list of companies reviewing its agencies, in this case a wholesale review covering creative, media, CRM, PR and all those other things such companies do these days. Which puts The&Partnership in ...

Food delivery service Deliveroo has chosen Wieden+Kennedy to handle what it says is its first global marketing campaign (the British start-up has just entered its 13th market, Taiwan). This, though seems, squarely aimed at Brits. W+K likes food (judged by ...