Media

Brewing giant AB InBev is reported to be reviewing its $4.8bn global media account, just two years after it chose Dentsu’s Vizeum in the US and an assortment of other holding company agencies around the world. To make life even ...

WPP ends 2019 in rather better shape than it started the year, with the completion of its sale of 60 per cent of research operation Kantar to Bain Capital for about £2.4bn. £1.4bn of this is being retained to reduce ...

IPA director General Paul Bainsfair on why the collateral damage of left-brain thinking will damage advertising’s long-term health and how advertisers and agencies must safeguard the future as we head into 2020 In Paul Feldwick’s entertaining and informative book on ...

“It is ironic that people think our industry is terrible when WPP are in it and a fantastic industry when Accenture are in it” WPP boss Mark Read (below) told a Morgan Stanley conference last month. The quote comes from ...

Independent agency network Pimento – which describes itself as the world’s first virtual agency – is celebrating a couple of milestones, 15 years in business and its 200th member London-based digital agency FX Digital. Pimento says it has worked with ...

Time was when the CMO of Unilever was one of the two most powerful people in marketing alongside that of rival Procter & Gamble but that’s, arguably, no longer the case as both legacy FMCG businesses adjust to a radically ...

UK advertising is booming, which may come as a surprise to some of you out there. According to WPP’s GroupM, the world’s biggest agency media buyer, UK advertising will grow 7.8 per cent in 2019 to £22bn – Brexit or ...

Marketing technology platform Ad-Lib has appointed two heavyweights: former Googlers Adit Abhyankar as CEO and Patrick Collister as creative director. Abhyankar was head of Google Marketing Platform, Continental Europe and Emerging Markets while Collister (left), a former senior agency creative, ...

Have you had the “time of your life” on Virgin Trains between 1997 and 2019, the length of its franchise? Richard Branson would like to think so in this vid from social media agency Cubaka featuring some B-listers (and himself) ...