Media

Venerable British retailer Marks & Spencer looks to many of us like a slow motion car crash, especially in its foundation clothing business. Latest to leave is former Halfords and McDonald’s boss Jill McDonald who grappled unavailingly with clothing, which ...

WPP CEO Mark Read has done his best deal yet, agreeing to sell 60 per cent of research operation Kantar to Bain Capital for £2.5bn, valuing the whole of Kantar at £3.2bn. £1.5bn will go towards reducing WPP’s debt with ...

Out of Home agency Talon has bought Grand Visual, a leading OOH digital creative specialist, plus its ad tech provider QDOT. Grand Visual and QDOT employ 48 people globally across London, New York and a development hub in Montevideo, Uruguay. ...

The UK’s online advertising sector is worth over £13bn with digital ad spend accounting for the majority (57 per cent) of all UK advertising. It is the world’s third largest digital ad market and Europe’s biggest with 19,000 people working ...

Johnny Hornby’s The&Partnership is nothing if not tenacious when it comes to hanging on to business and it’s done it again, retaining creative for British Gas owner Centrica after a review that sees WPP’s MediaCom and Wunderman win Centrica’s media ...

Cadbury is crowd-sourcing its new chocolate bars once more, this time with a digital Out of Home campaign from Carat and Posterscope inviting people to decide which of three makes it into the Cadbury range. The nationwide campaign will appear ...

WPP’s Ogilvy finds itself in hot water over a video produced for the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB) showing the (allegedly) civilised facilities in its Tucson facility. Ogilvy has a contract with the CPB worth a purported $12m ...

Didn’t he do well? Campaign reports that a Dentsu Aegis Network director, thought to be former CEO Jerry Buhlmann, collected £11.1m in 2018, including £5.3m “compensation for loss of office.” Does this mean Jerry didn’t want to go? Anyway, he’ll ...

Agencies come in all shapes and sizes these days and one such is 1000heads (actually it’s currently 150 or so) which says it provides social media-led data and insights, strategic consultancy and creative services. Clients include Wella, Microsoft and Uniqlo. ...