Media

Is more changing of the guard afoot among the holding companies? Campaign reckons that Interpublic CEO Michael Roth (below) has told the board he’s planning to step down (Roth is 72 and due to retire at 75) and notes that ...

Adweek reckons that teams from Omnicom, Interpublic and WPP are trekking off to Wolfsburg next week to complete the pitch for VW’s ad account – about to be split into regional ‘hubs’ in new VW CMO Jochen Sengpiehl’s big new ...

Mel Edwards, currently CEO EMEA of Wuderman has been chosen to fill Mark Read’s shoes at Wunderman as global CEO. Read was recently promoted to WPP CEO, succeeding the departed Sir Martin Sorrell. Edwards (below) joined Wunderman six years ago ...

Publicis Groupe has seen the odd spot of turmoil over the years as various execs vied to succeed CEO Maurice Levy but supervisory board chairman Levy and biggest shareholder Elizabeth Badinter has expressed satisfaction with its new leadership by re-apppointing ...

Forbes writer David Kiley has unleashed a rather large and fierce moggy among the pigeons at Ford and its WPP-owned agency GTB by predicting that Wieden+Kennedy (which has been picked to handle Ford’s US fall campaign) will win the creative ...

“When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?” is a quote attributed to famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) is not quite as famous but he seems to have ...

Veteran UK client/agency matchmaker the AAR (formerly Advertising Agency Register) is broadening its horizons with a new innovation practice aimed at helping companies find the right innovation partner be it an ad agency, management consultancy, start-up incubator or pureplay innovation ...

Brand and marketing consultancy Prophet has released its fourth annual brand relevance survey after surveying 47,845 consumers across the UK, US, Germany and China about 800 brands. It partnered with Research Now SSI. In the UK the top three are ...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings famously said that the company’s biggest competitor is sleep, as IPA president Sarah Golding reminds us in relation to the trade body’s new Touchpoints survey, which shows Netflix viewer numbers up 45 per cent over the ...