Finance

With some fanfare and no-little delay, ISBA has published a new study into programmatic advertising. The report found that about half – at best – of leading brands’ programmatic spend actually reaches publishers. The rest is eroded along the supply ...

London jobs continue to grow, but other UK cities are closing the gap on job growth in many industries. So, will London continue to dominate UK job sector growth? London has been leading the job growth race for years without ...

Thanks to Adscam’s George Parker for this – would you like your very own Sir Martin Sorrell for an hour? Courtesy of Sothebys. SMS is offering an hour of his time (to help you start a business – at which ...

Walgreens Boots Alliance is looking for a new global agency to “accelerate its digital transformation,” prompted in part by changes imposed on its retail and whoesale pharma business by the Covid-19 pandemic. It spends an estimated $280m a year. Which ...

Sir Nigel Bogle. Nigel Bogle was the account man in the dream team of Bartle Bogle Hegarty that launched in 1982. The agency set the standard for analysis and intellect combined with creativity. He was knighted for services to advertising ...

An era is coming to a close in media agencies with another of the group of UK media traders who have dominated big media agency land stepping down, MediaCom head Stephen Allan. Allan is being replaced by another Brit and ...

International charity WaterAid has appointed Don’t Panic to handle a three to five year campaign to help it bring clean water and associated hygiene to poor and marginalised communities. The agency is currently developing a Coronavirus response campaign showing how ...

New figures from Ad Age show that US agencies and other communications companies (including PR) cut 36,400 jobs in April as Covid-19 struck, down 7.5 per cent. Hardly surprising as up to 20 million jobs across the US have been ...

WPP’s Wunderman Thompson is reported to have won Samsung Mobile’s social media account, worth an estimated $10m. The business was formerly handled by PR agency Edelman. Wunderman Thompson has so far not commented, Edelman says it’s still working on other ...