Finance

We hear a lot about Accenture Interactive, less about Deloitte Digital which runs a sizable operation encroaching on adland’s traditional turf. Now DD has hired McCann New York COO Rich Whalen as MD of its US creative and studio offering, ...

WPP’s Ogilvy finds itself in hot water over a video produced for the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB) showing the (allegedly) civilised facilities in its Tucson facility. Ogilvy has a contract with the CPB worth a purported $12m ...

Didn’t he do well? Campaign reports that a Dentsu Aegis Network director, thought to be former CEO Jerry Buhlmann, collected £11.1m in 2018, including £5.3m “compensation for loss of office.” Does this mean Jerry didn’t want to go? Anyway, he’ll ...

Johannes Leonardo in New York – 25 per cent owned by WPP – is on a hot streak. It’s the lead creative agency on WPP’s new VW creative business in the US and made a bright debut with a ‘mea ...

Agencies come in all shapes and sizes these days and one such is 1000heads (actually it’s currently 150 or so) which says it provides social media-led data and insights, strategic consultancy and creative services. Clients include Wella, Microsoft and Uniqlo. ...

If, as expected, we get Boris Johnson as the next UK prime minister (possibly only for a week or so but we’ll see) there may be a reprieve for sugary drinks manufacturers and their handmaidens (ad and media agencies) as ...

WPP’s GroupM has declared war (they’ve been rowing for years) on Accenture Media Management, the consulting giant’s media auditing arm. According to Digiday WPP will no longer participate in pitches run by Accenture because Accenture Interactive has now entered the ...

Everyone’s looking for a silver bullet – or secret sauce – and Publicis reckons it’s found one as it completes the acquisition of US data firm Epsilon for a net $3.95bn. Last year Interpublic bought its own version, Acxiom, for ...

A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson. Apparently though, 13 per cent would, which proves Abraham Lincoln’s famous dictum that “you can fool some of the people ...