Finance

It seems odd to draw attention to the fact that for a long time now, Amazon has been overlooked in favour of the likes of Facebook and Google as a key media investment channel. However, that is changing fast as ...

Running an ad agency can be a pretty precarious business – and now you might have to contend with the US Department of Homeland Security. Brighton creative agency Designate found its website snaffled by the aforementioned spooks a week ago, ...

We all wondered what Harry and Meghan, about to be freed from royal duties would do next, and now we know some of it – Prince Harry (he’s still a prince and the Duke of Sussex as far as we ...

Creative agency Virtue is the shining light in the Vice media empire and it’s just been given perhaps the ultimate seal of approval – the appointment by Ikea, consistently one of the world’s best advertisers, to handle its business in ...

By Luke Willbourn Trade body Outsmart recently announced the final figures for 2019, showing annual OOH revenue in the UK, was up 7.6 per cent from 2018 at £1.3 billion. The last quarter of 2019 was also the most successful, ...

Running a still-rambling organisation like WPP must be rather like herding cats – and there’s a large and recalcitrant moggy in Australia called WPP AUNZ. This is the result of a merger between home-grown STW and WPP in 2016, creating ...

Pepsi’s Gatorade has joined the flood of brands pouring money into the already bulging pockets of sports stars, this time it’s lined up Leo Messi, Serena Williams, Michael Jordan and Usain Bolt as founder members of its GOAT Camp. All ...

All publicity is good publicity? Not in the social media age it isn’t. Boris Johnson’s new chancellor Rishi Sunak, an unfeasibly rich Yorkshire dweller (he married into the Infosys family and is a former hedge fund partner) probably thought he’d ...

Tamara Ingram (below) is stepping down as global chair of Wunderman Thompson, after a long career including CEO roles at Saatchi & Saatchi and Grey before she took over at JWT following the Gustavo Martinez affair and prior to JWT’s ...