Media

The marketing industry is facing an identity crisis. We have old agencies trying to stay relevant. New agencies trying to prove that their approach is no flash-in-the-pan. Big, ugly networks trying to unpick the knots that they’ve got themselves tangled ...

WPP’s Wavemaker media agency has scored a big and timely win with most of French insurance giant Axa’s global media account. Publicis has won the media business in Germany, the UK, Italy and Hong Kong. Publicis retains Axa’s creative. So ...

Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4Capital setting the pace in advertising, barely a year after he set it up following his defenestration from WPP? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, and now Fimalac, a holding company owned ...

By Colin Wheeler So for England it wasn’t to be. Congratulations South Africa, and this will mean so much more than just winning a World Cup for the Rainbow nation as it continues to unite its diversity. But what a ...

For all the nostalgia, no one working in advertising today really wants to return to the Mad Men days. It’s always tempting to take a rose-tinted view of the past: after all, it’s the only real comparison we have to ...

Sir Martin Sorrell says his S4Capital has morphed into a pumpkin from a peanut (maybe biology’s not his thing) as it reports organic growth of over 40 per cent this year in a third quarter trading update. He says: “Our ...

Talon Outdoor is adding to its proprietary data management platform, Ada, through a new partnership with X-Mode, one of the leading providers of high quality, GDPR-conscious location data. Ada was developed by Talon to push the boundaries of data-driven OOH ...

One of the few certainties in agency life is that, at some point, a favourite client will leave you. As with any relationship, this can be an emotional experience. Tears will be shed, feelings will be hurt and yet, eventually, ...

Grey Consulting has teamed with pollsters YouGov to discover that: 63 per cent of people trust social media platforms less than they did two years ago. Shift in confidence means 61 per cent of users are being more careful about ...