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The catchweight contest between WPP and founder and former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell is entering round 37. Campaign’s sleuths have discovered (subscription required) from WPP’s annual report that Sorrell’s former empire will not pay out two final long term payments ...

Interpublic (IPG), owner of McCann, FCB, UM and Initiative plus a newish collection of data businesses, delivered solid Q1 numbers, the first under New CEO Philippe Krakwosky. First quarter net revenue was $2.03 billion (up 2.8% on 2020) with net ...

WPP has surprised everybody, including possibly itself, by posting much better than expected revenue growth less pass-through costs (its version of organic growth) of 3.1% in Q1 2021, a sharp turnaround from negative 6.5% in Q4 2020. The rise was ...

The US must have more lawyers and law schools per head of the population than anywhere and the result? To an outsider at least, one of the most dysfunctional justice systems. Reform Alliance is trying to change the onerous rules ...

There’ll be much poring over the entrails of the European Super League’s (ESL) failure to get off the ground this week – the biggest PR disaster in decades some think. So who was in charge of PR? Well the PR ...

Adam&eveDDB is approaching half-time in 2021 with all guns blazing: now for EA Sports’ FIFA 21 it’s giving us, not Ronaldo’s gleaming pecs or other stand-bys, but the Midnight Ramadan League. This is the winner of UK broadcaster Channel 4’s ...

WPP is pledging to reach net zero carbon emissions in its operations by 2025 and across its entire supply chain by 2030. To deliver this, electricity will be 100% renewably sourced by 2025. Within WPP’s supply chain, which accounts for ...

Here’s a new one (for us anyway) in the agency C-suite, a chief sustainability officer (CSO presumably) although most agencies now have one that does something else. MSQ has appointed James Cannings (left) to the role (he’s already there as ...

That didn’t take long did it? Plans for the European Super League are in ashes as the six English clubs involved – Arsenal, Manchester City, Man United, Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool – scramble for the exit as the football (and, ...