It seems to be business as usual at Carat (maybe better than usual) following its £3.2bn acquisition by Japan’s Dentsu as the media buyer has just won the $500m Macy’s account from WPP’s MEC. Post-merger many agencies run out of ...
Read More »Is new GroupM ex-Omnicom hire Johan Boserup now the biggest hitter in global media buying?
He might be, Boserup (left) is joining GroupM (which oversees WPP’s four big media agencies) as global CEO GroupM Trading tasked with aligning trading activities in each of the agencies. Not just that, but he joins after 17 years at ...
Read More »Garry Lace agency Beta may be on the market
Beta, the agency set up by former Lowe boss Garry Lace (left) and RKCR/Y&R founder Robert Campbell is said to be looking for a buyer. Other gossips says that Lace has departed the agency. Lace, who’s had a colourful London ...
Read More »Saad Sharaf: are the UK’s marketers trying hard enough to target ethnic groups?
Saad Saraf is CEO of diversity marketing communications agency Mediareach and chair of the IPA’s Ethnic Diversity Forum. The IPA Diversity Forum works to develop industry programmes on ‘Ethnic Diversity’, intended to raise the profile of the issues surrounding ethnic ...
Read More »Stop treating ethnic groups in Britain like minorities says new IPA report
It’s not true that Britain’s ethnic minorities don’t spend, behave the same as whites and are too hard to target. So says the UK IPA’s latest report on ethnic diversity published today on which examines the rapidly expanding multicultural landscape ...
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