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 ...
Read More »Talon’s Eric Newnham in line for entrepreneur gong
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 ...
Read More »Eric Newnham’s new OOH giant Talon sets out its stall – ‘a landscape of possibilities’
In little over a year Eric Newnham’s new out of home specialist agency Talon has wrought devastation on the large and profitable UK OOH planning and buying market, grabbing huge chunks of business from its more established rivals (chiefly Aegis-owned ...
Read More »PubliCom posers for WPP’s SMS, Publicis outdoor on its way to Talon, drink more Herbert Hall…
The great Publicom merger posts a number of interesting questions for Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP. The first is: WPP’s strategy has always been to be the biggest and now it no longer is – across the piece. So fund ...
Read More »Is Eric Newnham’s new Talon really Kinetic?
First off, it’s also an Omnicom venture of course as Colin Gottlieb, boss of Omnicom media operations in EMEA, has bought an OMG stake in the business. But Eric Newnham, the former Kinetic boss and clearly a man who never ...
Read More »Roy Jeans of Rapport: how posters progressed from a static medium to a digital future
The out of home market has seen some radical changes as well as strong growth in recent years. Roy Jeans, CEO of leading UK OOH specialist agency Rapport, explains how and why the industry is changing. Last year IPM (International ...
Read More »Now Interpublic joins global out of home revolution with plans to roll out UK brand Rapport to US
Interpublic (IPG) is believed to be launching Rapport, its successful UK out of home specialist, in America as soon as its current contract with WPP’s Kinetic expires. The move follows hard on the heels on revelations (here) that Eric Newnham’s ...
Read More »Former Kinetic exec Chris O’Donnell joins Posterscope fightback against Talon
Eric Newnham’s new out of home operation Talon – backed by Omnicom Media Group – is making waves all over the place, not least in the wallets of a number of media and out of home professionals who may have ...
Read More »Omnicom’s OMG revealed as backer of new Eric Newnham out of home contender Talon
Which will put the cat among the pigeons in all sorts of places, not least Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP which used to employ Eric Newnham (left), boss of new out of home contender Talon, as CEO of Kinetic. Talon, which ...
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