Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has expanded its footprint in China with award-winning Shanghai creative agency Tomorrow. Tomorrow was founded in 2015 by Rogier Bikker and clients now include Burberry, Budweiser, Beyond Meat, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Crocs and Red Bull. Tomorrow ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital closes gap on giants Accenture and WPP
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital motors on happily through the pandemic, reporting Q3 2020 revenue of £86.4m (up 13% on the same period of last year) and gross profit of £75.3m (up 23%.) All this without the benefit of BMW’s ...
Read More »Sorrell’s MediaMonks takes centre stage in new BMW European line-up The Engine
Looks like Sir Martin Sorrell’s MediaMonks may have landed one of his targets 202 clients – his holding company S4 Capital wants 20 clients with $20m annual revenue – by winning a big chunk of the newly-combined BMW and Mini ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital sails serenely on – Covid or no Covid
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital booked a £500,000 loss for the six months to June 2020 but nobody bothers about that much these days (in the same period of 2019 it lost £8.8m) but its top line numbers continue their ...
Read More »Accenture challenges Sorrell’s S4C and agency production houses with CreativeDrive acquisition
Accenture Interactive seems to be venturing onto MediaMonks territory with the acquisition of Creative Drive, described as a “global, tech-driven content production company that simplifies, automates and scales the creative asset production process.” Terms are undisclosed. Digital production company MediaMonks ...
Read More »S4’s Sorrell opens up to Guardian on Facebook ad boycott and navigating the recession
S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been chatting to the Guardian’s Mark Sweney – Mark manages to conduct an interview with SMS without referencing “better, faster, cheaper”which is no mean feat – where, inter alia, he observes of Facebook and ...
Read More »Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital on the £100m takeover trail again – crisis or no crisis
It’s good to find a note of cheer in these straightened times and the pied piper of St James (the posh London domicile of his S4 Capital) Sir Martin Sorrell is still on the onwards and upwards takeover trail, setting ...
Read More »Is Sorrell right to damn (gin-soaked) public relations?
Sir Martin Sorrell (below) seems to have made a new brigade of enemies by branding PR as, inter alia, defined by “press releases,” (fair enough), “gin-soaked lunches” (didn’t have too many of those pre-lockdown) and “analogue” (has this man no ...
Read More »Former Ogilvy boss Miles Young joins Sorrell, S4 Capital lines up new deal in Australia
S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is still busily deal-making (via Zoom presumably) lining up a deal to buy Australia’s Lens10 digital agency to be merged with programmatic business MightyHive and a headline-worthy addition to S4’s board, former Ogilvy boss Miles ...
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