Media

Recently relisted Out of Home media owner Ocean Outdoor has made its first foray into continental Europe, buying Ngage Media and Interbest in the Netherlands. The two acquired companies operate substantial large format full motion city centre and roadside advertising ...

Talon, the UK’s biggest independent Out of Home agency, has bought the OOH business of Grandesign, the US’ second-largest independent in the sector. Grandesign’s traditional offices in San Diego, Denver, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Atlanta will take the Talon ...

Ford Motor Company has joined the trend to in-housing with the appointment of Unlimited Group to handle dealer marketing support for all UK dealers with a new on-site agency at its head office. The new team will drive innovation and ...

How did I get here? This International Women’s Day, I’ve been asked to join a panel to reflect on my career and share some of my experiences to date; always an unpredictable exercise for someone with next to no filter. ...

Mark Read, who seems to be rather enjoying his role as the new face of WPP (just as well) regaled ISBA members with his views the other day and in the process let slip the new reality of WPP as ...

At the start of February Publicis coughed up £25m or so for the quarter of media agency Blue 449 that it didn’t own. The lucky beneficiary was M&C Saatchi which had sold most of what was Walker Media to Publicis ...

This one comes firmly into the “whatever will they think of next” category: Out of Home incubator KineticX (part of WPP) is partnering with a new outfit called Pluvo to create what they call “air-purifying advertising inventory, at valuable high ...

With the rise of online channels such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV, traditional TV viewing has declined by three per cent in the last 12 months. This decline shows no signs of stopping. Last year, Ofcom’s Media Nations ...

Three former Adelphoi Music execs – Max De Lucia, Greg Moore and Sascha Darroch-Davies – have left to join former FRUKT MD Jeremy Patterson in a new London-based international “sonic branding” agency, DLMDD. DLMDD says it will “bring brands together ...