Finance

We haven’t heard from WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell for a while – well everybody deserves a break and it looks as though SMS went somewhere sunny (and had the eye op too). But he’s back on the road again, at ...

Lose a big account and people seem to go missing too. Last year Publicis-owned Leo Burnett lost McDonald’s to Omnicom’s new We Are Unlimited and long-serving worldwide chairman Tom Bernardin is on his way although he’s staying as a consultant ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David get excited about “change” – the ID Comms Media Word of 2017 (in 2016 it was “control”). The central change they predict will be those made by many advertisers in the way they ...

ITV CEO Adam Crozier is joining Costa and Premier Inn owner Whitbread as a non-exec, suggesting that his exit from ITV might be more imminent than expected. New ITV chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette has hired headhunters Spencer Stuart to canvas ...

Why do some brands win and others fail in this wonderful interconnected world? Win year after year it seems. Here’s Professor Scott Galloway of “business intelligence” firm L2 on the subject. It isn’t about “user growth multiplied by engagement” as ...

Voice as a new channel Multi-channel marketing is nothing new, but new channels continue and will continue to proliferate. In 2017 the next big channel drawing marketers’ attention will be voice search and voice recognition – including the possibilities offered ...

On #MediaSnack this week Tom and David head to the rooftop to get a bird’s eye view of 2016’s biggest media themes and personalities. As well as looking backwards they also assess which of these themes will have an impact ...

Twenty years ago, trendspotting was a cutting-edge craft, practiced by just a few thought leaders. Ten years later, it had become decidedly mainstream, with trendspotting part of business as usual and baked into every marketer’s job description. Today, businesses’ expertise ...

These (elderly) boys, for such they mostly are, never turn off, or so we’re told. So how are they passing the hours between Christmas and the New Year. What’s on their minds? Sir Martin Sorrell – WPP Three issues may ...