Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

The messy Johnson/Martinez affair at JWT signalled the end for the venerable agency as a separate entity (WPP merged it with Wunderman with Wunderman in the driving seat.) It also pre-dated, just, Sir Martin Sorrell’s ousting at the company he ...

The biggest event in adland over the past few years was undoubtedly the ousting of WPP founder and long-serving CEO Sir Martin Sorrell in 2018. This followed an injudicious trip to Shepherd Market, a lively area of London’s Mayfair, then ...

Lots of gossip over the weekend that S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been putting the finishing touches to a big deal, his biggest so far since kicking off S4 with the £300m acquisition of MediaMonks. In hindsight MediaMonks looks ...

Thanks to Adscam’s George Parker for this – would you like your very own Sir Martin Sorrell for an hour? Courtesy of Sothebys. SMS is offering an hour of his time (to help you start a business – at which ...

S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is 75 on Friday (St Valentine’s Day – happy birthday Martin) but advancing years don’t seem to have mellowed him. In an Ad age podcast he refers to the way all the holding companies, especially his ...

Not to be outdone by WPP, the company he founded, here’s Sir Martin Sorrell on his new construct S4Capital and its component parts MediaMonks, MediaHive and new “merger” Firewood. As ever with Sorrell there’s a grand tour d’horizon – first-naming ...

Advertising Week in New York is proving surprisingly interesting – Burger King’s lively CMO on his radical approach to advertising, Arthur Sadoun forced to admit that Publicis’ purchase of data firm Epsilon was “expensive but necessary” – and S4Capital’s Sir ...

It seems a while since Sir Martin Sorrell did the rounds of the TV studios as in his WPP days but here’s the boss of S4Capital and MediaMonks regaling the viewers of CNBC with his views about the way companies ...

We thought Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay was yesterday’s news as he’s now ensconced at “better, faster, cheaper” S4 Capital. At WPP he controversially earned buckets including £72m in 2016. But now two shareholder advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, are urging ...