Finance

WPP backing start-ups is a newish aspect of the Mark Read era and there’s another on the blocks: WPP Black Ops described as a “multi-disciplinary start-up dedicated to solving business problems.” Black Ops is launching with P&G brand SK-II’s Tokyo ...

MSQ Partners is launching The Gate, its creative agency, in San Francisco. This is The Gate’s fourth global office joining London, Edinburgh and New york. The Gate SFO will be run by chairman and CCO Beri Cheetham (above), previously CCO ...

Publicis Groupe is continuing its deep dive into consultancy with the acquisition of Australian management consultancy Third Horizon which will become part of Publicis Sapient. Founded in 2004, Third Horizon works with clients including the New South Wales and Victoria ...

The days are at last getting longer, birds are singing in the trees, the first buds of spring are nosing through the soil, and across the world of advertising and marketing, thoughts are turning to love. Or, more specifically, to ...

Everybody in adland and beyond needs a purpose these days and Heineken has adopted WYDND as its very own. Not the catchiest of titles, it means When You Drive Never Drink. To that end it’s signed up motor racing father ...

Mindshare and vodka brand Skyy are combining to launch an LGBTQ private marketplace to ride to the rescue of LGBTQ media brands excluded from media dollars through keyword exclusion lists. So-called brand safety technology has hit some publishers hard. Skyy ...

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 ...