Media

Ocean Outdoor is rolling out a new network of digital 6-sheet poster screens in partnership with Birmingham City Council. The new network will cover main city arterial and commuter routes. The screens are being supplied by Samsung with Esprit Digital. ...

Rachel Forde is UK CEO of media agency UM and a Cannes Media Lions jury member. This year was my first time on the judging panel for the Cannes Lions. Some three hundred award entries later, I realise why many ...

In the blue corner, barefoot Brian Whipple, global CEO of Accenture Interactive, kicked off his shoes and sipped a pint of beer. In the red corner, Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, drank water with a slice of lemon ...

Accenture Interactive had a very big yacht at Cannes last year – and posters all over the Palais des Festivals – but Anatoly Roytman, who heads up the company in Europe, African and Latin America, didn’t quite believe his own ...

London agency Impero has been looking at what it calls advertising’s “brain drain” – remember those, it used to be scientists abandoning the UK – in a new report called Rebranding Advertising. Burn-out, mental health, a lack of diversity and ...

Welcome to the new MAA Book Shop (see ads right.) The idea to create an online book store dedicated to advertising came out of conversations with people who admitted they had never read a book on the subject. This seemed ...

There may be a trade war between the US and China and the prospect of a shooting one in the Gulf but advertising – as a whole – seems to motor along. Interpublic’s Magna is forecasting that global ad revenue ...

The Cannes Lions are the gift that keeps on giving, for owner Ascential at least. After a couple of years when entries have been under pressure from the big ad holding companies cutting back – most notably Publicis Groupe last ...

Brexit cannot wither us, it seems, as agency groups are forecasting healthy ad spend growth in the UK for 2019, even though it will be slightly slower than last year. GroupM says the UK will grow by 6.1 per cent ...