Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

A Dutch auction is one in which the price starts high and is then progressively reduced. Unfortunately for Sir Martin Sorrell and his new venture S4 the battle for Dutch digital production company MediaMonks is turning into that in reverse. ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s first target for his S4 data to content business is MediaMonks it seems, a Netherlands-based digital production company with over 600 staff in Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, Dubai, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, ...

Sir Martin Sorrell is reported to have raised £100m for his new S4 venture, to add to the £50m of equity capital already in place (£40m of it his). This may be seen as a win or a fail – ...

Sir Martin Sorrell may have thought he’d drawn a line under the controversial circumstances of his WPP exit at Cannes – denying the unspecified allegations of personal misconduct – but now a number of emails of have surfaced fanning the ...

WPP has begun its expected programme of disposals in the wake of Sir Martin Sorrell’s departure, with its stakes in Buenos Aires-based software business Globant and digital ad exchange AppNexus first on the block. American Telecoms giant AT&T is to ...

Former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell was asked on stage at the Cannes Lions if he’d visited a prostitute, paid for by company money, as widely reported. He told New Yorker writer Ken Auletta that the accusation “wasn’t true,” although ...

There’s been plenty of gossip about Martin Sorrell at Cannes, mainly speculation about whether there are more revelations to come and who might succeed him at WPP. The man himself finally made his first public appearance since he was ousted ...

By Jane Austin in Cannes Were there any deliberate parallels that were being drawn between Michael Wolff’s description of the ascent of US president Donald Trump and the demise of advertising’s own Sun King Sir Martin Sorrell in the Cannes ...

Here’s rear admiral Mark Read of WPP, in a suitably nautical setting at the Cannes Lions, telling Campaign – what exactly? That WPP doesn’t need to be smaller but needs to be “easier to navigate” and more “client-centric.” Which is, ...