Media

The UK’s Channel 4, a minority station in terms of audience share but, publicly-owned, part of the UK’s broadcast establishment, is at loggerheads with Publicis Media over a 2019 sales deal. Publicis spends about £125m a year with C4 and ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been telling the Guardian about his plans for 2019 – he’s going to Davos, the Detroit Motor Show (wonder which client he’s got his eye on there), the Consumer Electronics Show and Cannes, where’s ...

Adweek’s most read article of 2018 (so far) is Rei Inamoto’s design for a new kind of agency, one that clients want and actually find useful. The former CCO of AKQA, now running his own innovation company Inamoto & Co, ...

It has been, as they say, a funny old year: the Brits battling with Brexit (in which contest everybody seems to be on different sides) and, in adland, famous names including JWT, Y&R and WCRS disappearing (as individual entities anyway.) ...

How long can a brand stay on top when it does everything wrong? Maybe the forthcoming fortunes of Manchester United will tell us. The once all-conquering English football club has just sacked its third manager – the once all-conquering Jose ...

WPP has won Newell Brands, described as a premier consumer goods company, and formed a new entity to handle it – Team Newell. Team Newell consists of Geometry, Mindshare and Eicoff (direct response television) alongside Wunderman Thompson for digital marketing ...

Arthur Sadoun’s fabled ‘Power of One’ is finishing the year with a burst of speed, this time with Publicis Groupe-owned Saatchi & Saatchi snapping up Siemens Home Appliances globally with a joint effort from Saatchi Dusseldorf and its China office. ...

He made a shock arrival, and now he’s made a shock departure. After less than a year, Stef Calcraft’s reign as executive chairman of Dentsu Aegis Nework UK and Ireland has come to an end. The deed seems to have ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital is advertising for a legal internship (paid we hope) and candidates should be university law students, “fluent in Dutch, English and legalese.” S4’s MediaMonks is headquartered in the Netherlands. They should also be “discreet ...