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In a surprise move incumbent GroupM has pulled out of the $1bn Facebook global media pitch, currently being advised by ID Comms. The Wall Street Journal cites Facebook’s “strict contractual terms” as the reason. Dentsu International, Havas and Publicis Media ...

WPP’s GroupM is forecasting 24% growth for the UK ad market in 2021 – up from its previous forecast of 12.4% – a rate of growth its president of business intelligence Brian Weiser describes as “astonishing.” Weiser (left) told Campaign: ...

WPP CEO Mark Read may be thinking back to 2016 as he contemplates two massive account reviews: Walgreens Boots Alliance is reviewing its across-the-board global deal with WPP up against Publicis as its three-year contract comes up while T-Mobile is ...

WPP has made a key appointment: Kirk McDonald (below) has been hired from WarnerMedia’s Xandr programmatic unit to be the new CEO of media business GroupM in North America. The position has been vacant since Tim Castree left last year. ...

Nick Theakstone, arguably the most powerful executive in global media buying, is reportedly stepping down as global chief investment officer of WPP’s GroupM, which disposes of some $108bn of client money worldwide. Theakstone (below) ran GroupM in the UK for ...

WPP’s GroupM reckons the the global advertising economy will lose $70 billion this year, dropping 11.8% (excluding US political advertising) to $517.5bn. With the US Presidential election the drop will be 9.9%. Next year advertising growth is expected to reach ...

WPP UK country manager Karen Blackett (below) is reportedly replacing Tom George as CEO of GroupM in the UK, the holding company’s mega-media buying operation. GroupM contains MediaCom (which Blackett used to run), Mindshare, Essence and Wavemaker. WPP CEO Mark ...

UK advertising is booming, which may come as a surprise to some of you out there. According to WPP’s GroupM, the world’s biggest agency media buyer, UK advertising will grow 7.8 per cent in 2019 to £22bn – Brexit or ...

It was only a matter of time before WPP CEO Mark Read turned his attention to giant (although not as giant as it was) media operation GroupM. And he’s done so in a pretty dramatic way, replacing CEO Kelly Clark ...