Finance

Q3 deals up 32 per cent from same period in prior year Total disclosed deal value $17.5 billion Increase in cross border deals, accounting for 37 per cent WPP the most active buyer with 12 acquisitions Consultancies continue buying spree ...

Required reading for Big Dumb Agencies and Big Dumb Holding Companies – Madison Avenue Manslaughter. There is no question that the advertising agency business I used to know, love, and profit from, is in a radical state of change, not ...

One of the biggest topics in digital advertising seems to be the increase in advertisers taking their programmatic trading out of agencies and bringing it in-house. Netflix and Kellogg’s have been amongst the most high profile proponents of this move, ...

I know you all like to hear about my problems with Virgin Media, the cutting edge of the cable revolution (nobody thinks, least of all them). Anyway, VM finally admitted today that they have a faulty cable in my area ...

My friend George Parker has been musing about Sir Martin Sorrell’s many deals at WPP, prompting this response on WPP earn-outs from correspondent Jane Don’t (below pic). Jane Don’t said… It’s quite a simple 10-step programme George: 1. “Buy” a ...

I shall return to playing the piano in a brothel! Yeah, so the headline is a “homage” to Jacques Seguela’s 1979 book… “Please don’t tell my mother I work in advertising, tell her I play the piano in a brothel.” ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP may be an eyeing a full bid for Australia’s STW Communications. STW Communications is Australia’s biggest agency group. STW stands for Singleton Thompson (after J. Walter Thompson) WPP, reflecting the co-ownership of WPP companies Ogilvy, JWT ...

It’s been interesting listening to chancellor George Osborne at the Tory party conference outlining his plans for a wonderful new age of state-of-the-art British infrastructure. He’s wheeled in Labour peer Andrew Adonis to head a commission into same. Hmm. Having ...

EDC UK has sold Dare to Oliver which operates through in-house agencies at major clients including BMW, Starbucks and PepsiCo. Dare was owned by Vision 7 and, before that, Cossette during which time it was merged, disastrously, with MCBD. Design ...