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Admedia, the outdoor company that handles ad sales at Motorway Service Areas (MSAs) across the UK, has rebranded to i media. Admedia was founded in 1995. The company was bought recently by a consortium led by Jonathan Lewis the former ...

WPP has been fined a chunky $19m by America’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to ensure some of its overseas subsidiaries met accounting regulations. The offences pre-date 2018 when the current WPP regime headed by CEO Mark Read ...

HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks, has a new “purpose,” you’ll be pleased to hear: opening up a world of opportunity. Thought bankers’ purpose was to make as much money as possible to buy a house in the country/yacht ...

The recipe for successful CX implementation. I’m not a good cook beyond the basics. Ask me to make anything fancy and I can guarantee the flavours of soap and the texture of a walrus’ behind. My only culinary claim to ...

The fur may be flying at Publicis’ swish Paris HQ today as the ‘Power of One’ agency group finds itself well and truly gazumped by Omnicom, which has pinched the entire Mercedes account including creative, media and performance marketing. In ...

Another week another “merger” for Sir Martin Sorrell’s go-go S4 Capital and its main brand Media.Monks. This time it’s the tech company he promised when he announced S4’s half-year results on Monday. The mergee (do they exist? You get the ...

In theory the UK’s secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (quite a bagful if you think about it) should play a big role in the fortunes of the ad and media industry. But there’ve been ten of ...

Levelling up seems to be on many people’s minds as the rich get richer (and the rest of us don’t) even although the world, as some believe, is going to hell in a handcart thanks to climate change, Covid and ...

The UK ad industry is lining up against the Government’s mad, mean-minded plan to sell off broadcaster Channel 4 with Campaign (subscription required) orchestrating an open letter against the plan, claiming C4 “plays a key role in offering diverse programming ...