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WPP’s Xaxis data cum media buying platform has come under fire recently for, among other things, a lack of transparency and the marcoms giant has moved swiftly and dramatically to remedy things. WPP is investing $25m and injecting its ‘Xaxis ...

Here’s another unequal contest: the mighty WPP against HMG (which is nervously awaiting the result of the Scottish Referendum, of course). WPP’s fearsome lawyers are challenging the UK government’s decision to award its £140m media buying account to Dentsu-owned Aegis, ...

As we speculated about half an hour ago, Saatchi EMEA boss Robert Senior (left) is to replace Kevin Roberts as CEO of Saatchi Worldwide (Roberts is staying on for another couple of years in a job coaching senior management at ...

Long-serving Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy (he took the helm in 1987) was supposed to be stepping down next year but now he’s not – he’s still going to be there until 2017. PG is still grappling with the consequences ...

Corporate life used to be conducted according to certain well-mannered rules, even if the nature of the beast was ‘red in tooth and claw.’ But the decision by, first, Vodafone and then, in the most cowardly fashion, by EE (owner ...

Clearly there are more important issues than marketing to consider when thinking about Scottish independence, but being up in Scotland on business in the days before the referendum led me to think about what a yes vote for independence might ...

More news from the tentacular world of WPP. WPP’s Salmon has bought UK-based e-commmerce specialist Neoworks. Salmon, which WPP bought in January 2013, specialises in the “design, development, implementation and management of enterprise-scale multichannel systems for retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers.” ...

Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the month with other countries in Europe at ...

Those ‘Math Men’ are at it again – this time at Publicis Groupe which has teamed with software giant Adobe to create (and trademark) what they claim is the world’s first ‘Always-On Global Marketing Platform.’ This is described as ‘the ...