Tag Archives: Roy Jeans

Roy Jeans: how the ad industry actively underpins “surveillance capitalism”

In the regional Chinese city of Rongcheng, the ruling one-party state is perfecting its soon to be nationwide “Social Credit System”. Starting with 1,000 points, every citizen has points deducted – or added – for their historical (and current) behaviour. ...

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Roy Jeans: why the Cairncross Review into news media is a failure of intent and resolution

Christophe Guilluy’s recently published English-language version of “Twilight of the Elites” focuses on nascent tensions between France’s metropolitan ruling class and the disenfranchised people who live in the countryside outside of France’s “citadels” of power and economic influence. Originally published ...

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Makin and Jeans launch hyperlocal media agency Pintarget

Charlie Makin, a founder of Booth Lockett Makin, and former Rapprt CEO and Saatchi regional media head Roy Jeans are heading the team launching a new media agency Pintarget focussed on local media. Pintarget says it will enable brands to ...

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Roy Jeans to head new media agency contender Communication Partners UK

Former Rapport and Initiative Media boss Roy Jeans is heading up a new media agency Communication Partners UK. Jeans (left) is joined in the new agency by commercial director Rachel Hall, a former media director of Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia, and ...

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Grey Scorpion’s Roy Jeans buys into get me media

Former Rapport global CEO Roy Jeans (left), now running media consultancy Grey Scorpion, has invested in UK search engine get me media and been appointed an executive director of the rapidly-growing company which is backed by IBIS Media and other ...

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Rapport ex-boss Roy Jeans reveals first clients at new advisory company Grey Scorpion

Former Rapport CEO Roy Jeans (left) has set up a new company, Grey Scorpion, to provide a range of services to media-based businesses including interim management, negotiation and investment support. Jeans, a former executive director at Zenith, quit Interpublic-owned out ...

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Jeans is out of OOH agency rapport as IPG slashes costs

Who’d work for a holding company? It’s emerged today that Roy Jeans (left), CEO of Interpublic-owned OOH specialist rapport and recently elevated to the post of global CEO, is leaving the company. Rapport has ambitions to go global having taken ...

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