Media

BBC Breakfast literally stopped me in my tracks one morning last week. You would be forgiven for thinking that it was a breaking news story that caused me to spin around and stare at the screen, but no – the ...

Alastair MacCallum (below), currently UK CEO of The&Partnership’s M/Six media agency in which WPP is a minority shareholder, is to be the new UK CEO of Kinetic. Kinetic is WPP’s Out of Home media planning and buying unit, the biggest ...

Tenthavenue, the WPP Out of Home and experiential holding company based in New York, has gone in CEO Mark Read’s ongoing reorganisation of Sir Martin Sorrell’s rambling WPP empire. Tenth Avenue was headed by Rupert Day, then a rising star ...

Everybody thinks the biggest advertising event of the year is the Super Bowl. With 98.2 million people tuning in, 30 second ad space sold for $5.25m. What could possibly top this? One word – Eurovision. Although historically regarded as a ...

The BBC is under the cosh in some quarters for its pursuit of ‘Yoof,’ notably through relentlessly plugging its new Sounds app. It’s showing all the games from the Women’s World Cup in France this summer and to plug it ...

Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (Budweiser and Bud Light among others) is joining the rush to set up a fully-formed in-house ad agency. The agency has grown from an in-house unit handling Michelob Ultra to one which will pitch for work ...

Is another dotcom crash on the way? Shares in recently listed Baidu and Pinterest both plummeted yesterday, China’s Baidu after it posted its first loss as ad sales slowed and Pinterest because it lost more than expected. Uber’s float was ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say and this one’s a peach. It’s Arthur Sadoun and Maurice Levy of course, celebrating Levy’s induction into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame. On which Levy has chosen to remind ...

Mid-sized marketing group MSQ Partners has secured a new investor, private equity firm LDC in a deal that values the business at £37.5m. MSQ’s agencies include Holmes & Marchant (branding & design), Smarts Communicate (PR and content), Stack (customer activation ...