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If you want a proper ad search out an advertiser with a big budget – in this case Sky, the UK’s biggest – and an agency that has a deft touch in these matters. As WCRS does, notably instanced in ...

Happy bunnies in London this morning are most Sky shareholders, who’ve seen US cable giant and NBC owner Comcast bid about £22bn for the company. Not so pleased is Rupert Murdoch (below), whose Fox already owns 39 per cent of ...

The brain drain from agencies continues with Engine’s EMEA boss Debbie Klein (below) leaving after 19 years to join longstanding client Sky as the newly-created group chief marketing and corporate affairs officer. Sky is currently reviewing its £200m plus media ...

What has Rupert Murdoch done to upset the British establishment? After decades of getting his own way over just about everything – even surviving the phone hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World – the US-based tycoon ...

Betting has become a national scandal in the UK, an even more potent way of making the poor poorer than government policy. Some sort of crackdown is on the way, aimed particularly at betting machines in shops that empty your ...

BT has spent billions on its still relatively new BT Sport and now faces the prospect of shelling out even more as the Premier League, for which it holds two packages against Sky’s seven, rolls the dice again at the ...

Another day brings another media review – as well as another media agency boss departing – and now Sky, Britain’s biggest advertiser, Campbell’s and Marriott Hotels are all reported to be reviewing their media business. Out of WPP, which won’t ...

Is the great TV-fuelled football gravy train hitting the buffers? Figures from Sky and broadcast measurement body BARB, collated by the FT, show that Premier League football viewing figures on Sky last year dropped 14 per cent despite the broadcaster ...

Nielsen has produced its 2016 ranking of the UK’s top advertisers and the top three are Sky – on £287m, up 18 per cent year on year – Procter & Gamble on £224m and BT, including BT Sport, on £159m. ...