Research

Eric Salama, long-time CEO of WPP’s Kantar research operation which is now 60 per cent owned by Bain Capital, is stepping down after 17 years. The sale to Bain completed last week. WPP keeps the balance. Salama (below) is staying ...

“It is ironic that people think our industry is terrible when WPP are in it and a fantastic industry when Accenture are in it” WPP boss Mark Read (below) told a Morgan Stanley conference last month. The quote comes from ...

UK marketers remain surprisingly optimistic about the prospect of leaving the European Union – Brexit – with 78 per cent believing their ability to reach goals will improve if and when it happens and 57 per cent expecting a budget ...

Business “transformation” is the buzz phrase de nos jours as companies large and small wrestle with a digital economy – and the uncomfortable realisation that people don’t seem to be buying any more just because the internet supposedly makes it ...

By Nick Mawditt As data has dictated the direction of travel for the media economy in recent times, there remains an over-reliance on some performance metrics that still profess to measure efficiencies rather than effectiveness. This is changing as we ...

Interbrand has revealed its Best Global Brands for the 20th year with (somewhat depressingly) Apple ($234bn, below), Google and Amazon occupying their customary top three places. Others in the top ten are Microsoft at 4, Coca-Cola 5, Samsung 6, Toyota ...

Advertising in the UK is facing an existential crisis in the UK as media agencies take over from creative in setting the client agenda (and often determining what form the ads will take in advance) and data munchkins direct everything ...

There’s a new kid on the data-driven block, Interpublic’s Kinesso, a “precision targeting and optimisation” outfit driven by IPG’s Acxion, the data business it bought last year for $2.2bn. This will include Cadreon IPG’s addressable media business. Kinesso’s CEO is ...

A new study aggregating econometric model evidence over five years for Out of Home (OOH) across 112 brands highlights the profitability of OOH and Digital OOH (DOOH) campaigns as the medium achieves critical mass in terms of reach, audience and ...