Research

New research from Results International shows a significant increase in M&A deal activity involving content production companies, more than doubling from 35 acquisitions globally in 2018 to 82 in 2019. In the last weeks of 2019 alone, Blackstone invested £100m ...

By Archie Heaton London’s liberal bubble was well and truly popped last week when those working in advertising shockingly discovered that the British people had voted for Boris Johnson. To make matters worse, Shoreditch was equally perplexed to find out ...

Christmas is to UK adland what the Super Bowl is to the US; big brands, big budgets, and the once-a-year feeling that the press (and maybe even the public) cares about what it makes. Brands spend big at Christmas, but ...

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 ...