Finance

Looks like Hancock’s Half Hour, the once-daily media briefings on Covid-19, usually hosted by health secretary Matt Hancock, are about to make a comeback – although not about the virus we hope. The Government is reportedly planning to introduce “White ...

The World Out of Home Organization (WOO) – which represents Out of Home media owners, national associations and specialist media agencies worldwide – has appointed New Commercial Arts to handle a major global campaign to promote the medium as Covid-19 ...

Omnicom has lured French car giant Peugeot away from Havas after 30 years – with a new bespoke agency called (bear with us) O.P.EN, short for OMNICOM for PEUGEOT Engine. O.P.EN becomes Peugeot’s global agency of record on a three-year ...

Latest data from Ada shows the UK population is returning to the high street with footfall up across shopping malls, department stores and supermarkets Talon Outdoor reports the latest findings from their proprietary Out of Home data management platform Ada, ...

Amazon is the world’s most valuable brand in these straightened times according to research firm Kantar, worth $415bn (up 32 per cent on last year.) The top ten is Amazon; Apple ($352bn + 14%), Microsoft ($326bn + 30%), Google ($323 ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is still busily deal-making (via Zoom presumably) lining up a deal to buy Australia’s Lens10 digital agency to be merged with programmatic business MightyHive and a headline-worthy addition to S4’s board, former Ogilvy boss Miles ...

Changeis something we’ve seen an awful lot of these past months. Unprecedented change that has been unsettling for all of us – as individuals and as professionals. But however unsettling, such times can also be an eye-opening learning opportunity and ...

First is was Facebook, now it’s Twitter and other social media for many big advertisers. The Facebook ad boycott is still growing apace – Unilever, Levi’s – while other advertisers -including Diageo and Starbucks – are pulling their ads from ...

WPP is merging Grey Paris into Ogilvy Paris – both still operating under separate brand names – in what may be the first of many such mergers among the big ad holding companies’ venerable creative networks. The merged agency will ...