Tag Archives: mediacom

It’s been a good week for WPP’s giant media operation GroupM: MediaCom has won Uber globally to top off Wavemaker’s win of Pernod Ricard in the US. The global media market is coming back to life as big advertisers navigate ...

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 ...

An era is coming to a close in media agencies with another of the group of UK media traders who have dominated big media agency land stepping down, MediaCom head Stephen Allan. Allan is being replaced by another Brit and ...

I see that former Dentsu Aegis Network UK chairman Stef Calcraft has resurfaced as global creative supremo of giant WPP media agency network MediaCom. Calcraft (below), a founder of creative agency mother and before that at BBH and Unilever, left ...

Publicis has taken another powder in North America, losing Ebay’s media account to WPP’s MediaCom in a closed pitch between the two holding companies. Mediacom already handled the $250m global business in Europe and Australia. Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun today ...

Hearts & Science UK CEO Frances Ralston-Good seems to be on her way to WPP’s MediaCom, surprising as the Omnicom-owned media agency looked like it was on its way after a slow start, winning £40m GoCompare. Hearts & Science, which ...

AMS Media, one of the stalwarts of the UK’s still-surviving media independent sector, has lured two former MediaCom execs to helm its new office in Leeds. MediaCom Leeds founding director Steve Empson and investment director James Whitehead (fourth and second ...

If you’re one of the millions that tune into streaming services, I’ll bet there was one piece of original content that first really grabbed your attention. Maybe you found it “totally tubular” to unpick the mystery of the Demogorgon terrorising ...

Mars, which had previously cut and sliced its media across the world, has consolidated everything into WPP’s MediaCom, the biggest win so far for the new regime headed by Mark Read at WPP. Mars is reported to spend $1.8bn (£1.4bn) ...