Finance

If ever a company needed a white knight it’s M&C Saatchi and the troubled UK-quoted agency may have found one in Vinodka (Vin) Murria, the tech entrepreneur. Murria (below) and family interests have paid around £6m for 13.25% of the ...

China is going back to work, 90% of it anyway, and Unilever has been quick out of the blocks, awarding its estimated $500m mainland media account to WPP and its media holding company GroupM. The incumbent was Omnicom’s PHD. Recently ...

A study in early 2019 found that 77% of brands sold across Europe could disappear tomorrow and people would not care. It’s a pretty brutal reminder that much of the work of the industry in recent years, has failed to ...

Latest data from Ada, Talon’s proprietary Out of Home data management platform, shows that traffic across the UK is slowly rising, up by 4% during week 5 of the lockdown when compared to the previous week. Out of Home media ...

Nigel Bogle of BBH fame famously observed that no agency was more than three phone calls from disaster (these days it’s probably emails) and, as if they didn’t have enough on their plates, VCCP and adam&eveDDB, two of the UK’s ...

Here’s Maurice Levy in lockdown, telling The Drum’s Stephen Lepitak about working from home, his brief spell seconded (it seems) to WeWork and working with his successor as Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun. No chateau by the sea for Maurice ...

A Fishbowl US survey, reported in Agency Spy, shows that advertising and marketing people lead the field when it comes to drinking at home while at “work” in these WFH days – an impressive 49.14%. For once lawyers are beaten ...

The ever-ingenious Arthur Sadoun at Publicis has produced a new wheeze for these straightened times: money back for clients if Publicis doesn’t deliver “guaranteed outcomes” via its new The Pact service for mid-sized clients. Mid-sized being a prety wide definition: ...

WPP senior managers must be hoping CEO Mark Read emerges from his Zoom-wired study sooner rather than later as the (relative) escape from meetings seems to be prompting a sharp burst of decision-making. As we report today, WPP is asking ...