Tag Archives: dentsu

The ad business still has the capacity to surprise now and then and here’s one: Wendy Clark is quitting as boss of Omnicom’s DDB to be global CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, Jerry Buhlmann’s old job. She’ll report to executive ...

The wheels have indeed come off at Japanese ad giant Dentsu – no great surprise as the ad conglomerate has been cutting back all year – posting a $737m loss for 2019. Organic revenue growth was down across the board, ...

Anybody out there with a media agency they’d like to sell? Accenture is pulling out of media auditing to concentrate on “agency” services, which may well include full-on media planning and buying. It already handles programmatic for some advertisers. Accenture ...

Dentsu Aegis Network boss Tim Andree is taking leave of absence for health reason, another sign of upheaval at the Dentsu-owned network which handles the Japanese holding company’s giant media business outside its homeland. Andree (below) was in charge of ...

Japanese ad and media giant Dentsu is cutting its forecast for 2019 (although it doesn’t specify to what) following a disappointing first half when revenue was marginally up but organic growth went into reverse: 1.5 per cent for the company ...

One way or another India features heavily in awards these days and here’s another candidate that surely has a Cannes category in waiting. It’s by Dentsu Webchutney for Chakra Tea and the wheeze in question is a tea kettle that ...

BBH London CEO Ben Fennell is leaving the agency after 25 years (he joined as a graduate) to set up his own business which sounds like an consultancy cum agency. Maybe a ‘cagency?’ Meanwhile Accenture Interactive founder and MD Christine ...

Good to see Victoria Milligan returning to the media agency fold as marketing and communications director of Dentsu Aegis Network UK & Ireland. She is the widow of Sky sales boss Nick Milligan who died with their eight year old ...

Fetch Media, the digital and mobile specialist owned by Dentsu, is being sued for $40m by Uber for “click fraud,” allegedly billing the ride-hailing giant for fake online ads and downloads it had nothing to do with. Fetch, based in ...