Finance

WPP’s first half results are pretty much as we forecast yesterday – no crystal ball, alas, just the usual corporate leakage – with billings up five per cent to £23bn, like-for-like revenue up 4.9 per cent (organic growth by another ...

Is WPP proof that biggest is best in advertising? Tomorrow (Wednesday) WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) will announce his advertising and media giant’s half-yearly results and, according to some weekend reports, the numbers will be good. Profits are forecast ...

Back in 2008 was when the Hogarth story really began. We started up the company with 14 people in an attic room near Carnaby Street. The floor sloped so badly that the chairs tended to end up in one corner, ...

From time to time any observant individual will notice the small number of advertisers who chop and change their advertising partners on a too regular basis. I always wonder in these cases is if the advertiser is searching for a ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s various pronouncements seem to amuse and engage some of you so here he is – again – speaking by video link at what seems to be a leadership conference, NOAH15 in Berlin last month. Don’t know who ...

There’s a new player on the world media agency stage, Canvas Worldwide, a joint venture between Hyundai agency Innocean and Horizon, the biggest independent media agency in the US. Innocean will move its $700m Hyundai and Kia media business into ...

Spain is currently embroiled in a financial scandal dating back to the financial crisis and one of the leading figures reportedly involved is Rodrigo Rato, a former Spanish finance minister and, after that, managing director of the International Monetary Fund ...

At some stage this year we’ll be able to tot up the winners and losers in the media review stakes; there’s over $20bn of media up for review, about half in the US. So far we’ve only had the results ...

Here’s Sir Martin Sorrell telling The Drum what it takes to be a good/great agency network CEO. and, not surprisingly, it’s a version of him; as he says, the big agencies are still like mini holding companies in many respects. ...