Technology

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 ...

Is SMS about to announce another deal? He seems to be implying he will in this short video from The Drum at CES 2020 (my, the boy gets around) with some of his S4Capital lieutenants. Saying there’ll be more ‘misfits’ ...

No wonder Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun seems to have more grey hairs every time a new picture of him emerges. It won’t be lost on the energetic Sadoun that entries for this year’s Cannes Lions are about to open – ...

Self-styled ethical video platform Good-Loop, which rewards viewers of online video ads by donating on their behalf to a chosen charity, has raised $1.6m from US investors including David Jones’ brand tech group You & Mr Jones. Good-Loop, founded by ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has announced another “merger’ (its favoured term), this time with Mexico City’s award-winning Circus Marketing, described as a fully integrated digital agency. Circus, which also has an office in Spain, will be rolled into S4C’s content ...

Whether or not you see the decade from 2010 to 2019 as good or bad (or dreadful) depends on where you’re sitting. If it’s at Facebook or Google it was good almost beyond belief as they hoovered up the lion’s ...

Accenture Interactive leader Anatoly Roytman (below), who runs the digital giant outside the US, is retiring after ten years there. Accenture says: “We can confirm that Anatoly Roytman will be retiring at the end of the year, following a brilliant ...

WPP CEO Mark Read (and, no doubt, his dealmaking COO Andrew Scott) haven’t broken up for the Christmas holidays yet, they’ve just sold the key talent and technology platforms used on the business to Walmart-owned Sam’s Club. Last month it ...

By Jimmy Robinson After overtaking Baidu’s ad revenue recently, ByteDance has seen astonishing and rapid growth, with some reports stating ad revenue across all platforms owned by ByteDance in Q1 and Q2 2019 has reached 50 billion RMB (approximately 7 ...