Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Farmer has just published the third edition of his invaluable Madison Avenue Manslaughter, surely the best analysis of the recent history of advertising and its agencies and guide to what to try to do next. We’ll have more from ...

Sir Martin Sorrell is in Davos, advising the world on what it should do next and putting in a good word for his new venture S4 Capital. It’s as though nothing’s changed. Although the Daily Mail reported earlier in the ...