Media

There’s been a lot of talk about the number of gambling adverts on UK TV within the past few years. Many feel there are too many advertisements for casinos, betting, bingo, and poker throughout the day – particularly during sporting ...

Technicolor Creative Services is incorporating venerable production company MPC Advertising into its other big brand The Mill to create what it claims is the biggest suite of VFX, production and experiential marketing studios servicing the ad industry globally. The new ...

David Jones’ You & Mr Jones is rebranding to The Brandtech Group, signalling its growth from a start-up six years ago to a group with about $500m in revenue and more than 5,000 employees. Jones, a former CEO of Havas, ...

Purpose may be taking over marketing but it doesn’t have quite so many fans in the financial world. Fund manager Terry Smith, founder of Fundsmith Equity Fund and a big investor in Unilever, says: “Unilever seems to be labouring under ...

S4Capital’s Media.Monks has added another data business, 4 Mile Analytics based in Santa Cruz, California. The company, founded by Nick Fogler in 2017, works with Fortune 500 brands deploying technology from partners including Looker, Snowflake, Fivetran and Google Cloud. With ...

Sir Martin Sorrell doesn’t have too much in common with messrs Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty, the trio who, when they set up BBH in 1982, announced they weren’t going to undertake creative pitches. Lots of agencies have said this at ...

David Attenborough is presenting a new series, Green Planet, and BBC Creative is promoting it with a takeover of Green Park tube station, immersing passengers in pictures of plant life in all its multi-coloured variety. Each poster focuses on a ...

M&C Saatchi’s fortunes as a public company have certainly been diverting: it’s currently recovering from an accounting black hole and its four founders have all disappeared in the past year or so. Now it finds its deputy chairman seemingly trying ...

Perplexed about the metaverse, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s best efforts? Facebook is now Meta of course. Here’s Wunderman Thompson’s chief transformation officer (not CTO, they’re something else) Justin Peyton trying nobly to explain it and its relevance for brands. Actually he ...