Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, the new entity that runs the media tycoon’s print businesses, is combining the media accounts for its two big book businesses – Penguin and Random House – and has awarded the £5m business to Havas Media ...
Read More »Steve Ridley’s replacement at Kinetic, Camelot media moves and Holler makes London Live programme
***I see that Mauricio Sabogal (left), global CEO of Interpublic’s third media agency network BPN, is leaving to become global supremo of Kinetic, WPP’s out-of-home behemoth. BPN, which always seemed like a shot in the dark given that IPG’s existing ...
Read More »Mark Craze to leave Havas Media as Bollore-controlled company becomes more French
It’s more ‘out with the old and in with the new’ at Havas, this time at Havas Media UK where CEO Mark Craze (left) is off to spend more time on ‘exciting new projects.’ Much the same happened a few ...
Read More »Why UK out of home firm Outdoor Plus is remarkably well-connected
There’s a lot going on under the radar in OOH – or posters, as we anciently called it. And I’m not simply talking of Omnicom’s Eric Newnham-fronted effort to crash the charmed circle of UK specialist buyers – namely WPP-owned ...
Read More »Leading UK media shop the7stars set to join exodus to new outdoor contender Talon
Former Kinetic worldwide boss Eric Newnham (left) is shaking up the UK out of home buying industry in a way it hasn’t seen for years: now leading UK media independent the7stars is set to join the rush to Newnham’s new ...
Read More »Havas Media and Walker Media set to follow OMG into new UK outdoor contender Talon
The London media world is agog with speculation about what will former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham (left) and his out of home buying company Talon do next? Latest is that Talon is about to follow its win of the £150m ...
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