Media

New figures from Ad Age show that US agencies and other communications companies (including PR) cut 36,400 jobs in April as Covid-19 struck, down 7.5 per cent. Hardly surprising as up to 20 million jobs across the US have been ...

WPP’s Wunderman Thompson is reported to have won Samsung Mobile’s social media account, worth an estimated $10m. The business was formerly handled by PR agency Edelman. Wunderman Thompson has so far not commented, Edelman says it’s still working on other ...

Is the political battle over Covid-19 about semantics? Boris Johnson’s UK government is fond of a slogan – ‘Get Brexit Done’ and all that – but now there’s a battle about its shift to ‘Stay Alert’ as the UK moves ...

It’s the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe), celebrated in suitably boisterous fashion at the time as a grateful world bade goodbye to Adolf and his odious cronies. Piccadilly Lights owner Landsec and operator Ocean Outdoor have donated ...

Omnicom boss John Wren has responded vigorously to the Covid-19 crisis, with anticipated measures sich as layoffs, furloughs and salary cuts. Including some high profile (and presumably expensive) people at its agencies which include BBDO and DDB. Now it’s merging ...

Publicis Groupe-owned BBH has instituted a round of lay-offs, with a 20 per cent cull of its New York and LA offices. No word from HQ about London yet but it’s hardly likely to escape. London-based group CEO Neil Munn ...

Jonathan Haidt thinks everyone who grew up in the UK is weird. That is, we see the world through the lens of a Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic culture. For WEIRD people, morals are mostly confined to the ethics ...

Even Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital isn’t immune to the depredations of Covid-19: reporting like-for-like revenues and gross profit in March this year up 6% compared to 33% in January and 21% in March. So even go-go S4 is slowing down ...

Programatic advertising is important for publishers (including MAA) but we’ve always wondered where the rest of the money goes. According to a new study by PwC commissioned by UK advertiser body ISBA, about half – at best – of so-called ...