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What’s next for Richard Desmond as long-time sidekick Stan Myerson calls it a day?
I see that Stan Myerson, Richard Desmond’s number two and “brother-in-arms” is retiring. The British newspaper industry had never seen…
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Kellogg’s Special K to JWT, Omnicom bats against client payment terms and still has to resolve C5 stand-off
*Leo Burnett in the States has lost Special K in the US to JWT, which will please people at WPP…
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Omnicom’s airtime row with Channel 5 shows that UK media buying isn’t a free market at all
There still seems to be no sign of a resolution of the airtime dispute between Omnicom media buying company Opera…
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Omnicom and Channel 5: are the UK’s big media agencies working for themselves or their clients?
The short answer to the above should probably be: working for both. But Omnicom’s decision to pull all its advertising…
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Sorrell’s pay hits £30m, Dessie sells Channel 5 for £450m, David’s second coming for ‘subservient chicken’
***More from the wonderful world of adland and its parallel universe of ridiculous pay awards: WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell…
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Desmond eyes bumper £700m payday from Channel 5
We haven’t always been UK media entrepreneur Richard Desmond’s biggest fan – he started out at the tacky end of…
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Sorrell shows his cojones to support GroupM against bully critics and takes another potshot at ‘POG’
Here’s my chum Mark Sweney from the Guardian bearding WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) on the alleged bullying activities of…
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WPP’s GroupM Entertainment accused of wielding too much power over TV programmes as well as ads
Regulators around the world may be fretting over the media power that will be commanded by the merger of Omnicom…
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Desmond puts the boot into old chum Sorrell over GroupM’s TV buying power
If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because…
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