Media

Anybody out there with a media agency they’d like to sell? Accenture is pulling out of media auditing to concentrate on “agency” services, which may well include full-on media planning and buying. It already handles programmatic for some advertisers. Accenture ...

Dentsu Aegis Network boss Tim Andree is taking leave of absence for health reason, another sign of upheaval at the Dentsu-owned network which handles the Japanese holding company’s giant media business outside its homeland. Andree (below) was in charge of ...

Adweek reckons this ad for Jeep with Bill Murray reprising his role in Groundhog Day (with some other original cast members) is the Super Bowl’s best. By Chicago agency Highdive and nicely directed by O Positive’s Jim Jenkins. It’s certainly ...

Facebook Groups are supposed to be the new big thing from the Zuckerberg dream factory, bringing people together with similar interests (I think.) $11.2m was lavished on the airtime for this Super Bowl launch effort from Wieden+Kennedy, majoring on ‘rock’ ...

One of the hitherto largely unremarked aspects of Mark Read’s reign at WPP has been the change in the relationship with Johnny Hornby’s The&Partnership in which WPP owns 49 per cent. The two entities have always collaborated closely – T&P’s ...

Talon Outdoor, the leading independent Out of Home (OOH) media and technology agency, today announced that Jim Wilson is its US CEO. Wilson (below) will join Talon from TEGNA’s Premion, the first-in-market over-the-top (OTT) advertising and technology platform, that he ...

The logo’s not big enough used to be the client lament (these days it’s changed to there aren’t enough products in it ‘cos we’ve only got one TV/Super Bowl ad this year.) But McDonald’s is hardly likely to be overlooked ...

Google has wheeled out what may be the big winner at the Super Bowl, the real-life story of an 85 year old man summoning up memories of departed Loretta thanks to Google Assistant. Made in-house, in part by a relative ...

Engine was the lucky agency charged with the Government’s ‘Get Ready for Brexit’ campaign which has officially been deemed a waste of time and money – not for the agency or some media owners of course. The Government ‘only’ managed ...