Media

If ever a company needed a white knight it’s M&C Saatchi and the troubled UK-quoted agency may have found one in Vinodka (Vin) Murria, the tech entrepreneur. Murria (below) and family interests have paid around £6m for 13.25% of the ...

China is going back to work, 90% of it anyway, and Unilever has been quick out of the blocks, awarding its estimated $500m mainland media account to WPP and its media holding company GroupM. The incumbent was Omnicom’s PHD. Recently ...

Latest data from Ada, Talon’s proprietary Out of Home data management platform, shows that traffic across the UK is slowly rising, up by 4% during week 5 of the lockdown when compared to the previous week. Out of Home media ...

A Fishbowl US survey, reported in Agency Spy, shows that advertising and marketing people lead the field when it comes to drinking at home while at “work” in these WFH days – an impressive 49.14%. For once lawyers are beaten ...

Commercial advertising in April 2020 pretty much ground to a halt (with some exceptions): what work there was was Covid-19. Much of it was along the line: we’ve got to do something. But there were two stand-outs, efforts that would ...

The ever-ingenious Arthur Sadoun at Publicis has produced a new wheeze for these straightened times: money back for clients if Publicis doesn’t deliver “guaranteed outcomes” via its new The Pact service for mid-sized clients. Mid-sized being a prety wide definition: ...

Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, is feeling pretty pleased with his decision to move into digital. He might not have exited WPP, the agency group he founded, out of choice, but his successor Mark Read is almost certainly ...

WPP senior managers must be hoping CEO Mark Read emerges from his Zoom-wired study sooner rather than later as the (relative) escape from meetings seems to be prompting a sharp burst of decision-making. As we report today, WPP is asking ...

The UK Advertising Association, in conjunction with WARC, is forecasting a 16.7% fall in adspend in 2020 compared to 2019 – which most media owners would probably bite their hands off for, with Covid-19 raging. Many people are forecasting 30 ...