Media

At last, an interesting comment from a WPP insider about the departure of Sir Martin Sorrell. Stephen Allan (below), CEO of WPP’s biggest media agency MediaCom and a veteran of the UK and international media scene, has told the BBC ...

Did Arthur Sadoun’s Publicis Groupe have a good first quarter of 2018? It says it did, reporting organic growth of 1.6 per cent (compared to minus 1.2 per cent in 2017) but the numbers are skewed by the adoption of ...

In a digital age it’s always useful to remind oneself of the standard of the best print journalism and the New Yorker (now online too, of course) is a good place to look. Here’s author Ken Auletta on Sir Martin ...

Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills ...

WPP’s biggest rival Omnicom kept its head above water in the first quarter of 2017 with revenues up 1.2 per cent to $3.6bn with organic growth year-on-year of 2.4 per cent. Profits rose 9.2 per cent to $264m. It did ...

I have recently read two books on art. In one, William Gompertz suggests that all education should adopt the approach of art schools, which is to learn how to question, not simply to learn to regurgitate for exams. Learning to ...

Exactly a year ago bumped into Johnny Hornby and Mark Read (newly-anointed joint COO of WPP with Andrew Scott) at a lunch where Hornby inquired of Read what it felt like to be the heir apparent to Sir Martin Sorrell. ...

The Campaign/Nielsen billings for UK creative agencies have emerged and, as suspected, AMV BBDO’s long term lead has been cut, Omnicom sibling adam&eveDDB narrowing the gap to £96m. AMV had its first full year without Sainsbury’s and the gap may ...

Martin Sorrell deciding to call it a day isn’t so surprising despite the gossip about the internal investigation. Can’t believe he dipped in to the Farm Street office tea money or was doing a Harvey with the interns. For me ...