Media

UK radio operator Global is now a big player in Out of Home too with its Exterion, Primesight and Outdoor Plus acquisitions and now it’s bought MMD Media, a Dutch petrol forecourt specialist with 1378 digital screens at 607 petrol ...

BT has switched from long-serving AMV BBDO to Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi for what it says is its biggest brand campaign for 20 years, tied to the promise to make five million kids “tech-enabled.” Which brings safety and opportunity ...

‘What’s going wrong at Publicis Groupe?’ is not a headline Arthur Sadoun and co would have enjoyed seeing splashed across the front page of this very site earlier in the week. But this wasn’t the only publication asking questions about ...

Advertisers cut budgets for the first time in seven years – down 0.5 per cent – according to the IPA’s Q3 Bellwether report. Which might be deemed a result given all the to-ing and fro-ing over Brexit, due to be ...

Rob Chalmers, previously R/GA’s ECD and head of experience design for Asia Pacific, has joined Engine Creative as its first chief experience officer. Chalmers left R/GA in June to return to London after five years at the agency, where he ...

The UK’s ASA ad regulatory body has found against this ad for online clothing firm Missguided which ran in popular ITV show Love Island (now to be broadcast twice a year it’s so popular.) The ASA says it depicts women ...

Sir Martin Sorrell used to be fond of saying that big WPP rival Omnicom was a good operator but “had no strategy.” Thanks goodness for that as the US marcoms giant sails (fairly) serenely on, reporting organic growth of 2.2 ...

A year ago, #timeTo launched with a mission to put an end to sexual harassment in the ad industry. A couple of weeks ago, Pitbull closed out Advertising Week New York surrounded by twerking, underdressed women. Banishing inappropriate behaviour was ...

Is it the curse of Boris Johnson? Long-time Johnson supporter The Telegraph (BoJo has written a highly paid column for the paper for years – famously he wrote two, one pro-Remain and one pro-Brexit and finally chose Brexit) has revealed ...