Finance

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has made a timely move to strengthen its position in the rapidly-growing Indian advertising market with the purchase of entrepreneur Sandeep Goyal’s 26 per cent stake in the four agencies the two partners founders founded for ...

Charities are big businesses these days, winning a place at the top geo-political tables, being summoned to the cause of the UK’s ‘Big Society’ (proprietors David Cameron and Steve Hilton) and running ad campaigns a-plenty, including every other spot on ...

Eagle-eyed analyst Bob Willott of Marketing Services Financial Intelligence has spotted that a huge chunk of money seems to have gone missing from Newcastle agency Robson Brown, recently acquired out of administration by Mission Marketing Group. Here’s part of his ...

It’s been a good week for industry veteran Dan Wieden and his Portland-based Wieden & Kennedy, first they win Ad Age’s US agency of the year gong and now they’ve been given the rest of the Levi’s global account to ...

WPP is to start a new outdoor holding company called Tenth Avenue which will include, inter alia, its Kinetic operation according to a report in Campaign. Kinetic previously came under the GroupM banner, the holding company for its big media ...

John Prescott that is, former Labour deputy leader in government and now Lord Prescott of somewhere or other. But you have to admit the old boy’s got a point even if he does confuse the (non-existent) Criminal Prosecution Office with ...

We may still be short of big deals but there are lots of smaller ones about, Publicis Groupe has just bought listed London integrated agency Chemistry for £14.5m. Here’s Campaign’s report. Shareholders of Chemistry Communications Group, which is listed on ...

The future of marketing communications is data, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell tells us, and US investors seem to agree, forking out up to $1.9bn to buy the 20 per cent of US research giant Nielsen offered for sale in its ...

Partly because three of them are Chinese (apart from readers in China of course) and partly because they are are mostly niche internet businesses; the contemporary equivalent of direct marketing on the internet. Report by China Analyst. Below are the ...