Media

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has released its first full year results, for 2018, which appear to show the new entity is motoring nicely. S4 includes Dutch (now international) production company MediaMonks, acquired in July last year, and programmatic media ...

The ad industry is preparing to fight back against the threat of stricter controls on junk food advertising, as the government announces a public consultation on whether there should be a watershed for TV and online ads featuring foods high ...

More network shuffling at WPP, this time it’s digital network Possible (already described as a Wunderman Thompson company) merging with Wunderman Thompson – only in Seattle at this stage although it looks like the two are joining forces officially in ...

AMS Media, one of the stalwarts of the UK’s still-surviving media independent sector, has lured two former MediaCom execs to helm its new office in Leeds. MediaCom Leeds founding director Steve Empson and investment director James Whitehead (fourth and second ...

Google says it removed 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018, nearly one billion fewer than it did in 2017 – which may suggest that its ad policies are working, although it still, um, seems a lot. More pertinently perhaps it ...

It’s not new news that marketers are shifting adspend from classic billboards to digital Out of Home inventory, but the market will hit an important point of inflection in 2019. This year, global adspend on classic Out of Home is ...

Not before time the ASA has banned a Sky Bet ad featuring Jeff Stelling, the presenter of Sky’s Soccer Saturday programme. Sky sold Sky Bet for an eye-watering £3.4bn last year, but most viewers probably think it’s still part of ...

Michael Farmer has just published the third edition of his invaluable Madison Avenue Manslaughter, surely the best analysis of the recent history of advertising and its agencies and guide to what to try to do next. We’ll have more from ...

Wonderhood Studios just missed out on Virgin Media but it has a new and quite compelling showcase, this film for Comic Relief with actor Peter Mullan – plus a newbie to the silver screen. The BBC’s Comic Relief has raised ...