Finance

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 ...

IPG-owned Initiative Media is used to losing business sometimes – like many agency-owned media shops its fortunes rise and fall with those of the agency attached to it, in its case Lowe – but it must be a touch surprised ...

If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because of his ownership of porn TV channels) addressing the august Royal Television Society, it’s the maverick tycoon taking a pot ...

In one of agency land’s rare outbreaks of principle Publicis Groupe-owned media agency Starcom MediaVest has shown Premier Foods the door after the struggling British food company asked it, along with its other agencies, to pay an “investment” fee to ...