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Dentsu Media employee Jiro Inao has committed suicide in Indonesia, through the pressure of overwork according to police. Inao, 48, was a senior manager. His family have refused an autopsy. Dentsu’s CEO in Japan resigned last year over a similar ...

Dentsu has emerged at the top of the holding company leader board in 2016 (WPP has still to report) with organic growth of five per cent (4.5 per cent in Japan where it still does about half its business). Revenue ...

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the marcoms sector grew in 2016 according to new research from M&A advisor Results International. There were 1,023 marcoms deals globally, rising from 979 in 2015 and 972 in 2014 In Q4 there were 238 ...

These (elderly) boys, for such they mostly are, never turn off, or so we’re told. So how are they passing the hours between Christmas and the New Year. What’s on their minds? Sir Martin Sorrell – WPP Three issues may ...

It never rains but it pours, especially at Dentsu in Japan it seems. Hard on the heels of the agency admitting to overbilling hundreds of clients, most notably its biggest, Toyota, has been the suicide of Matsuri Takahashi (below) who ...

Dentsu president and CEO Tadashi Ishii (below) has released a statement, owning up to numerous charges of overbilling clients for digital advertising. There’s a lot of it (the statement that is) but it makes interesting and somewhat perturbing (for clients ...

Big time media buying is the scandal that just keeps on giving and now Japanese giant Dentsu finds itself in the dock, accused of overcharging massive client Toyota for digital work over a five year period. Toyota says Dentsu has ...

Dentsu is giving WPP, Omnicom and others a real run for their money in the digital acquisition stakes as global marketing consultancy R3’s summary of mergers and acquisitions (below) in August demonstrates. Dentsu topped the deal table in terms of ...

Daniel Domberger (below) of media and technology M&A firm Livingstone questions if buying data-based businesses can help agencies compete with the likes of Adobe and Oracle. Digital has totally transformed the marketing mix, and the way that media and brand ...