Online advertising is still growing rapdily around the world according to research conducted by Econsultancy on behalf of The Rubicon Project, Inc., which operates the advertising industry’s largest independent real-time trading platform for digital advertising. 64 per cent of advertisers ...
Read More »Nir Wegrzyn of BrandOpus: why the client search for creative perfection leads to a state of paranoia
Nir Wegrzyn is CEO of award-winning design agency BrandOpus. He was managing director of design agency JKR for ten years and before that a senior executive at FCB and Publicis. In the first of a series of articles he looks ...
Read More »Advertising takes one of its periodic trips into the spotlight – but does it really matter that much?
With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering mainstream debate as ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell says to David Cameron: you’re barmy to promise a UK referendum on the EU by 2017
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at ...
Read More »WPP and Millward Brown unveil third BrandZ survey of most valuable Chinese brands
And here’s what the survey from WPP’s research company Millward Brown says: This year’s ranking shows that brands are becoming more important to the Chinese consumer. Despite a challenging economic environment, strong brands outperformed their competitors and the broader stock ...
Read More »Why the time to worry in business is when your research says you’re doing everything right
With all of the worrying news on the UK retail scene (Comet, Jessops, now HMV) it makes me wonder to what extent management of these companies genuinely listen to what the great unwashed actually think. I fully understand the energy ...
Read More »Why do clients want proper advertising for the Super Bowl but not the rest of the time?
My friend Jerry Judge (left) of the Fearless Group in New York has highlighted the apparent absurdity of Mondelez hiring the world’s hottest creative agency Wieden+Kennedy to produce its Oreo 2013 Super Bowl ad while at the same time bending ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell reports a black September for revenue
Growth at the world’s largest advertising group WPP almost ground to a halt in September, forcing WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell to cut the company’s 2012 revenue growth estimate to between 2.5 per cent and three per cent. As recently as ...
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