Finance

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been chatting to the Guardian’s Mark Sweney – Mark manages to conduct an interview with SMS without referencing “better, faster, cheaper”which is no mean feat – where, inter alia, he observes of Facebook and ...

When all this is over – with our usual caveat, if it ever is – there’ll be some well-known faces missing as the ad industry inevitably contracts. As ever in such times, the big holding companies and others will spring ...

It’s good to find a note of cheer in these straightened times and the pied piper of St James (the posh London domicile of his S4 Capital) Sir Martin Sorrell is still on the onwards and upwards takeover trail, setting ...

Recent events have been manna from heaven for the Daily Mail (aside from the evaporation of ad revenue): a vigorous response to the Covid crisis which gave birth to its Mail Force PPE charity, Harry and Meghan (she’s suing the ...

M&C Saatchi is making its debut for Promote Iceland, aiming at people going screaming mad in lockdown who might be inclined to ‘let it all out’ in roomy Iceland. As a precursor they can post their screams to Iceland via ...

Everybody expected the economic data in Covid-19 to be bad but it’s still a shock when you discover quite how bad. The Uk’s OFfice of National Statistics (ONS) says UK gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 19.1% in the three ...

There are still some creative mavens around in adland (maybe a few less by the end of the crisis – holding companies are getting rid of pricey people) and some teamed up to assist the Advertising and Design Club of ...

In the first Media and Marketing podcast on MAA journalist John Reynolds discusses Black Lives Matter and its impact on advertising with Rania Robinson, CEO, Quiet Storm; Mihir Haria-Shah, head of broadcast Total Media and Christopher Kenna, founder, Brand Advance. ...

UK media independent The Specialist Works is buying hyper-local media and data business Pintarget. Pintarget, founded in 2016 by Charlie Makin and part-owned by shopper media specialist RMI will now be known as Pintarget by The Specialist Works with Makin ...