Tag Archives: Media

My previous piece on the famous advertising lunch got me thinking about the ones that were truly about making history. When we went through the process of selling Simons Palmer to Omnicom it became clear the interest was purely for ...

Last week we asked which UK media agency would bite the bullet and pitch for Premier Foods’ account, resigned by Starcom MediaVest over its astonishing request for an ‘investment’ payment, one we estimated at £40,000. But according to sources in ...

Dentsu boss Tim Andree (left) (non-Japanese Dentsu boss to be strictly accurate) has been sharing some intriguing thoughts about further global consolidation in the ad business, saying that Dentsu would be the ‘acquirer of choice’ for anyone wishing to sell ...

Actually that was only a small part of what the Wieden+Kennedy founder said at Ad Age’s Small Agency conference in his home town of Portland earlier this month but it’s pretty irresistible; especially as his remarks pre-dated the Pubiicis Omnicom ...

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 ...

We thought WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell had been a bit quiet at Cannes but it turns out he did say some quite newsworthy things – to Ad Age in this video. For some reason they decided to sit on it ...

We noted last week that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) had been uncharacteristically quiet of late but this morning he’s bounced back; telling the BBC that companies like Google aren’t really tech companies – ‘engineers’ as he put it ...

I don’t know what all those executives from Unilever, Procter & Gamble, serried car companies and the financial world are making of this year’s Cannes Lions adfest – maybe that they could save the money and launch an NGO instead. ...

Is usually omniscient WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell struggling a bit to work out what he actually thinks? It’s the Cannes Lions adfest next week and Campaign has, rather enterprisingly, prised their views about the festival from the four big ...