Media

2020 was a particularly challenging year for the ad holding companies, pre-pandemic already facing challenges from the big consultancies – most notably Accenture, now armed with Droga5 – and the rush to digital and consequent hit on margins. For the ...

It’s been a year like no other most of us can remember (and let’s hope there isn’t another one) so it’s a slightly different MAA Agency of the Year review this year. Tracking the fortunes of international agencies and advertisers ...

Once upon a time Coca-Cola reviewing its creative and media accounts would have been by far the biggest story in adland. It still might be of course, as the soft drinks giant is reviewing its global arrangements for both, currently ...

Keith Kaplan, currently an advisor to US-based Out of Home owner Outfront Media, is the new global CEO of WPP’s giant specialist OOH agency Kinetic. He succeeds the retiring Marc-Antoine de Roys. This means that all the big specialist agencies ...

WPP’s Wunderman Thompson has been looking into brand growth and reckons the key isn’t awareness or any of those old metrics but whether or not brands are “inspiring.” According to ‘Inspiring Growth’ 725 of customers worldwide want brands to be ...

Dentsu International is the first of the big ad holding companies to announce company-wide post-pandemic job losses. The company, formerly Dentsu Aegis Network which operqtes outside Dentsu’s homeland Japan, will cull around 6000 jobs, 12.5% of the workforce. Dentsu says: ...

Publicis Groupe’s Zenith and Interpublic’s Magna media operations have been compiling their end of year assessments and forecasts for next year (suppose adland should be glad there is a next year.) Magna first: 1/ In 2020 media owners’ linear advertising ...

I have to be real – it’s exhausting to see the amount of lip service in the ad industry about turning the leaf for better multi-cultural/ethnic activity. We see pledges and manifestos usually in the form of carefully calculated social ...

After a post-lockdown global creative review which kicked off in July, Visa has appointed Wieden+Kennedy as its new creative agency, taking over the major $200m prize from long standing agency BBDO. Publicis Groupe holds on to a chunk of the ...