Finance

Fast-growing marketing group MSQ has bought creative production studio Brave Spark. In the last year MSQ has also bought Be Heard Group and MBA. Brave Spark, which works for Hiscox, Arlo, Hitachi and Trivento among others, will be based in ...

As one who doesn’t use Facebook at all it’s sometimes bewildering to discover the amount of ire it provokes – isn’t it just supposed to connect people who want to share not very interesting aspects of their lives? A threat ...

Big media reviews seem to happen almost daily these days but AB InBev’s global review is worth noting: it spends around $5bn on advertising including some of the drinks world’s most famous brands. The review is supposed to conclude in ...

Here’s another germ of an idea – actually rather more than that – from New Commercial Arts in its debut for Habitat, part of the Sainsbury’s empire. In that inquisitive way the agency has it’s looked into the word ‘habitat’ ...

Another day, another “platform,” this time it’s Coca-Cola with ‘Real Magic,’ the first time it’s changed platforms (as you do) since 2016. CMO Manolo Arroyo explains it thus: “Coca-Cola is a brand defined by dichotomies: humble but iconic, authentic yet ...

UK Digital adspend saw huge year-on-year growth in the first half of 2021, according to IAB UK’s H1 Adspend update, released today. The data, produced with PwC, shows a half yearly spend of £10.5bn, which is up 49% vs H1 ...

Ogilvy has a new EMEA CEO in Patou Nuytemans who succeeds long-serving Paul O’Donnell. O’Donnell is staying on as chairman. Nuytemans left) was global chief growth officer at the WPP agency, spanning its public relations, growth and innovation, advertising, health, ...

WPP’s GroupM has upgraded its ‘This Year Next Year’ forecast for UK ad revenue, from a pretty spectacular 24% to 30%. This is due to stronger than expected growth in TV and digital. Mind you, the forecast was presumably prepared ...

With the approaching obsolescence of third-party cookies, marketers must reimagine how they optimise digital campaigns, strengthen audience connections, and build relevant ad experiences. Digital advertising’s precision targeting and measurement capabilities have placed performance under the microscope, but this has drawn ...