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Alastair MacCallum (below), currently UK CEO of The&Partnership’s M/Six media agency in which WPP is a minority shareholder, is to be the new UK CEO of Kinetic. Kinetic is WPP’s Out of Home media planning and buying unit, the biggest ...

This one comes firmly into the “whatever will they think of next” category: Out of Home incubator KineticX (part of WPP) is partnering with a new outfit called Pluvo to create what they call “air-purifying advertising inventory, at valuable high ...

There could scarcely be a more controversial topic in adland than programmatic buying but WPP-owned out of home giant Kinetic is wading into the fray with the launch of a new, so far un-named, automatic OOH trading platform using Bitposter ...

What we now call out of home has arguably been the best performing media sector after digital in recent years – not least because it has embraced digital in many respects. But one of the frustrations for advertisers and media ...

I think we’re going to have to start a section on MAA called “better mousetraps,” to accommodate all the new programmes, algorithms and other magical remedies the industry keep coming up with. Many come into Ad Tech of course, but ...

WPP-owned out of home media buyer Kinetic has an airport marketing unit called Aviator and it’s appointed Janice Tan (left) as global head, based in Singapore. Tan reports to Kinetic global CEO Mauricio Sabogal. Kinetic, like its biggest global rival ...

***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 ...

Steve Ridley (left) is stepping down as CEO WPP-owned out of home giant Kinetic after 15 years with Kinetic and its predecessor Poster Publicity. Ridley became CEO in 2010, taking over from Eric Newnham who led the sale of Poster ...

It’s always nice to see people you know doing their bit for the country and my friend Eric Newnham (left), boss of go-go OOH agency Talon, is one such, which has now been recognised by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards ...