Finance

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has added a third major leg to its business, buying what it calls Europe’s largest influencer agency IMA to merge with its MediaMonks digital content business. Both are based in Amsterdam. S4 also owns the MightyHive ...

FMCG giant P&G has cut its adspend for the third year in a row, down $350m (£290m) to $6.75bn, claiming to have reduced waste by in-housing, sprucing up its digital supply chain and reducing agency and production fees. It’s much ...

Japanese ad and media giant Dentsu is cutting its forecast for 2019 (although it doesn’t specify to what) following a disappointing first half when revenue was marginally up but organic growth went into reverse: 1.5 per cent for the company ...

A lot can change in ten years and nearly ten years ago the launch of Barton F. Graf in New York was big news. Founder Gerry Graf (below) had held top creative roles at BBDO, TBWA Saatchi & Saatchi and ...

London-based marcoms group MSQ Partners has upped its profits nearly 50 per cent to £5.9m and grown turnover ten per cent to £82.3m in 2018. MSQ, which recently secured investment from PE firm LDC valuing it at £37.5m, owns creative ...

Digital has won the media share game in the sense that it takes over half the ad market in most economies. But some older media are fighting back, especially when they show they can effectively harness digital bells and whistles. ...

Are old-style companies on the way back? Procter & Gamble has just posted its best quarterly results for 13 years (if you except a $8bn hit for Gillette, of which more later) while Apple, which is beginning to resemble an ...

21st century tech is a wonderful thing for early stage investors and – sometimes – consumers but it seems to becoming increasingly difficult to make money out of it. Ride hailing giant Uber is laying off 400 of its 1200 ...

Most agency holding company CEOs probably don’t look forward to announcing their quarterly numbers these days – Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun certainly wouldn’t have as he unveiled what amounted to a revenue warning a couple of weeks ago – but ...