Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

At one of the increasingly popular “fireside chat” events to lure big names on stage, John Hegarty, founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, was in typically opinionated mood as he talked to the audience at Connect London. “People go on about ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is reckoned to be on the brink of landing his second big acquisition, US-based programmatic advertising company MightyHive. MightyHive is run by former Google exec Peter Kim and advises clients on their digital media activities ...

MDC Partners, which owns Anomaly and 72andSunny among others, had a decent 2017 after years of under-performance but it looks like the wheels might be coming off in 2018. Its Q1 results were described as “unacceptable” by CEO Scott Kauffman ...

Another week another salvo in Sir Martin Sorrell’s PR fightback. This time he’s talking to the UK’s Press Association news agency saying of his unceremonious exit from WPP, the company he founded and built up over 33 years: “It’s been ...

Nobody can be quite sure what form Sir Martin Sorrell’s new communications company S4 Capital will take, although clearly digital production in the shape of first acquisition MediaMonks will play a big part. A seasoned soldier once observed that no ...

Anyone out there have a digital media buying business – with a base in data analytics (obviously)? If so it could be the next target for S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell because that’s what he says he wants to add ...

Former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell has won the first round with his old company, beating WPP to $300m MediaMonks, a Dutch digital content company. Sorrell has had to bid high though, not just in terms of cash but in ...

The Times reckons that Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is winning the race to buy Dutch digital production company MediaMonks for €300m while Sky News reports WPP is alleging that Sorrell was “heavily engaged” in discussions with MediaMonks last year ...

As we thought, Sir Martin Sorrell’s bid for MediaMonks with his new venture S4 has aroused the ire of WPP, which is also bidding for the Dutch digital production company, valued at £250m plus. WPP has sent a legal letter ...