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In little over a year Eric Newnham’s new out of home specialist agency Talon has wrought devastation on the large and profitable UK OOH planning and buying market, grabbing huge chunks of business from its more established rivals (chiefly Aegis-owned ...

Peter Scott’s Engine Group, whose companies include WCRS, Partners Andrews Aldridge and sports marketing business Synergy, made a small post-tax profit £422,000 in 2012 compared with a loss of £5.2 million in the previous year. The results were affected by ...

Regulators around the world may be fretting over the media power that will be commanded by the merger of Omnicom and Publicis (40 per cent of the ad media market in some instances) but it’s the allegedly over-mighty GroupM, owned ...

Online advertising is still growing rapdily around the world according to research conducted by Econsultancy on behalf of The Rubicon Project, Inc., which operates the advertising industry’s largest independent real-time trading platform for digital advertising. 64 per cent of advertisers ...

Funny how agencies often seem to produce their best work on an account during the protracted period between losing it and it actually moving to a new agency. Maybe they’re no longer frightened of the client – there’s no point ...

Interpublic, the owner of McCann, Lowe and DraftFCB among many others, is manning the defences in preparation for a takeover bid. And the likeliest bidder is not widely-canvassed Dentsu but WPP. IPG is currently valued at $7.2bn (£4.4bn) and trading ...

The UK IPA Council, which consists of representatives of leading creative and media agencies, has passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the Government Procurement Service, which has replaced the COI as the body that selects agencies for over ...

You can’t keep British banks out of the news – this morning we had the Government flogging six per cent of its stake in Lloyds for £3.2bn (bit cheap that) and Barclays being fingered for overcharging interest (so that’s another ...

Last week we asked which UK media agency would bite the bullet and pitch for Premier Foods’ account, resigned by Starcom MediaVest over its astonishing request for an ‘investment’ payment, one we estimated at £40,000. But according to sources in ...