Media

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a rare press release that starts with “we are reluctant and miserable to announce,” but Thinkbox has done just that with a statement about Tess Alps departure from the TV marketing body. Alps was the founding CEO of Thinkbox ...

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 ...

Manchester City’s two-year ban from European competition, imposed by Uefa, has been overturned by the grand-sounding Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Court found that the alleged “serious breaches” of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play rules were “either not established ...

A TV ad ban for the gambling industry looms with a committee of MPs pushing for one and the return of Premier League football, the driver behind the recent growth of gambling via bets on mobiles, has pushed betting even ...

The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has formed a Global sourcing Board that aims to drive a shift from savings to value. Its 12 members, some from the world’s biggest advertisers, have produced a new paper: Project Spring: Revolutionising the ...