Joy Bhattacharya is managing director of Accenture Interactive, the world’s biggest and fastest-growing digital agency. Among other things he is responsible for design and innovation practice Fjord’s general management and business growth and leads Accenture Interactive’s business in the UK. ...
Read More »WPP’s AKQA puts digital agency Potato on its menu
We haven’t heard very much from Ajaz Ahmed’s AKQA since WPP bought it for £348m back in 2012. There’ve been a few departures, as you’d expect, but nothing too dramatic. Now AKQA may be spreading its wings a bit, possibly ...
Read More »IPG’s Lowe buys digital agency Profero
It sometimes looks as though Interpublic has gone to sleep in the acquisition stakes, certainly in comparison to two of its rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe, but today it announced the surprise capture of Profero, one of the few remaining ...
Read More »Engine’s Wayne Deakin picks his Desert Island Ads
Wayne Deakin is ECD of Engine Group and also the UK marcom company’s digital agency Jam. An Australian, Deakin began his career at BCM Partnership and then worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, McCann, Euro RSCG and Jung von ...
Read More »Hugh Baillie quits Hello People to head up French digital group FullSIX/Grand Union in the UK
Hello People co-funder Hugh Baillie is leaving to be CEO of Grand Union, one of the agencies in the French-owned FullSIX International digital empire. He will also head up FullSIX in the UK. Baillie (left), a former CEO of Ogilvy ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell minds the pennies with stake in India’s Pennywise – but don’t rule out a bigger deal
Ogilvy & Mather agrees to acquire majority stake in PennyWise, a leading digital technology and production company in India WPP agency Ogilvy is buying a majority stake in PennyWise Solutions, which it says is one India’s leading digital technology and ...
Read More »WPP goes digital shopping again with Designercity in Hong Kong and UK TV business SecondSync
WPP is still the biggest western marcoms company operating in the China region, even after the PubliCom merger, and boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is still shopping busily for assets. It has just acquired a majority stake in yet another ...
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