Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital – proud owner of MediaMonks and MightyHive – motoring as fast as his Martin-ness would like? Here’s what he said at the AGM (there’s a lot of it but it’s instructive.) “2018 was ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital is growing fast
Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 has reported revenue up 38 per cent to £40.9m and gross profit up 37 per cent to £32.8m in Q1 2019, a pretty staggering performance since the business only started a year ago following his ...
Read More »WPP reveals more grim tidings from the US, Sorrell’s S4 announces two timely buys
Timing is all, as they say, and just as WPP has announced some pretty grim first quarter trading numbers former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has chosen to announce two new acquisitions: “food and liquids studio” Caramel Pictures and ...
Read More »Born-again Sorrell on S4’s buy plans, WPP and the importance of investing in agency brands
Prior to performing at Adweek London S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell shared some thoughts with Ian King at Sky, here. It’s an instructive five minutes or so from a seemingly energised SMS. Among other things he says he wants to ...
Read More »Sorrell’s new S4 Capital posts promising first year numbers
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has released its first full year results, for 2018, which appear to show the new entity is motoring nicely. S4 includes Dutch (now international) production company MediaMonks, acquired in July last year, and programmatic media ...
Read More »Sorrell hits CES to plug S4 – and push aside WPP exit
If there’s a big pow-wow going Sir Martin Sorrell will be there (CES this week, Davos to come – for all we know he’ll be providing the Super Bowl half-time entertainment.) Here he is with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin who’s gamely ...
Read More »Sorrell prepares to storm 2019 digital marketplace
S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been telling the Guardian about his plans for 2019 – he’s going to Davos, the Detroit Motor Show (wonder which client he’s got his eye on there), the Consumer Electronics Show and Cannes, where’s ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4C wants a lawyer, closes in on Braun digital
Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital is advertising for a legal internship (paid we hope) and candidates should be university law students, “fluent in Dutch, English and legalese.” S4’s MediaMonks is headquartered in the Netherlands. They should also be “discreet ...
Read More »Sorrell raids WPP’s GroupM for S4C APAC chief
Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital has raided his old firm WPP for its new Asia Pacific region boss, Michel de Rijk, who joins from WPP media operation GroupM. De Rijk (left) was global chief growth officer at GroupM’s Performance ...
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