Finance

We thought Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay was yesterday’s news as he’s now ensconced at “better, faster, cheaper” S4 Capital. At WPP he controversially earned buckets including £72m in 2016. But now two shareholder advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, are urging ...

Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (Budweiser and Bud Light among others) is joining the rush to set up a fully-formed in-house ad agency. The agency has grown from an in-house unit handling Michelob Ultra to one which will pitch for work ...

Is another dotcom crash on the way? Shares in recently listed Baidu and Pinterest both plummeted yesterday, China’s Baidu after it posted its first loss as ad sales slowed and Pinterest because it lost more than expected. Uber’s float was ...

We noted yesterday that the full effect of Publicis Groupe’s tech-inspired “transformation” had yet to be evident but maybe there’s a clue here: Renault and its Challenges Groupe publishing partner have struck a deal with Publicis to produce an in-car ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say and this one’s a peach. It’s Arthur Sadoun and Maurice Levy of course, celebrating Levy’s induction into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame. On which Levy has chosen to remind ...

Mid-sized marketing group MSQ Partners has secured a new investor, private equity firm LDC in a deal that values the business at £37.5m. MSQ’s agencies include Holmes & Marchant (branding & design), Smarts Communicate (PR and content), Stack (customer activation ...

Commercial radio in the UK has reported its highest ever audience of 36.1 million listeners according to new figures for Q1 2019 published by RAJAR, the body responsible for measuring radio audiences in the UK. There are now 1.7m more ...

Working for Wunderman Thompson must be stressful at times (more so its two constituent agencies just before the WPP merger) and so the newly-minted UK agency is introducing 15-minute “wellbeing” breaks. As ever with these things there’s a programme to ...

Out of Home media owner Ocean has been awarded long term agreements with City Property (Glasgow) Investments LLP, working in partnership with Glasgow City Council, to redevelop and introduce new roadside and city centre digital advertising screens. This is Ocean’s ...