Media

Maurice Levy’s French tech start-up Ycor is tweaking the mighty Amazon by the tail, saying it will outbid it for Sizmek, in Chapter 11 since the end of March. Sizmek is a DSP with an ad server and optimizer. Asking ...

WPP has just won (actually retained) a big one, L’Oreal UK which spends over £100m. But instead of staying with WPP’s Wavemaker (an amalgam of MEC and Maxus) it’s moving to Essence, WPP’s digitally focussed newbie media agency. L’Oreal is ...

Hearts & Science UK CEO Frances Ralston-Good seems to be on her way to WPP’s MediaCom, surprising as the Omnicom-owned media agency looked like it was on its way after a slow start, winning £40m GoCompare. Hearts & Science, which ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has been confiding to Digiday about his plans to buy a “first party data” company, averring that Dentsu’s Merkle is the kind of company he’s looking for, that Acxiom (just bought by Interpublic) and ...

The mighty Goldman Sachs has directed some welcome intelligence (if that’s what it is) WPP’s way, saying the marcoms group stands to benefit as “some large advertisers” step up their marketing efforts. It says its shares, currently 960p, should benefit ...

Brewdog and column inches go together like a summer’s day and a pint of cold, crisp, lager. Brewdog’s latest stunt delivered again – its first TV ad, proclaimed as the most “honest” beer ad ever. Certainly it was one of ...

The&Partnership’s media agency m/SIX has made a big move forward, winning video game company Electronic Arts’ (EA) global account, apart from the considerable digital elements EA handles itself. M/SIX pitched against incumbent Starcom (owned by Publicis Groupe), Omnicom’s Hearts & ...

Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital – proud owner of MediaMonks and MightyHive – motoring as fast as his Martin-ness would like? Here’s what he said at the AGM (there’s a lot of it but it’s instructive.) “2018 was ...

There have been a lot of leadership changes at Dentsu Aegis Network over the last year, and the significance of each move isn’t always obvious, but Michael Epstein’s promotion to CEO of Carat Global looks to be a straight reward ...