All of a sudden the world’s looking more troubled for adland, despite its better than expected bounceback form the recession. A perfect storm of war in the Ukraine and its effect on energy and commodity prices, a grinding halt in ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4Capital hit by financial results audit issue
Thought Sir Martin Sorrell had been strangely quiet recently. One reason would have been that he was waiting to announce S4Capital’s 2021 financial results, due today. But just before 4pm, the go-go digital marketing services group, built around the Media.Monks ...
Read More »Don’t play the pitch game, says Sorrell, “land and expand”
Sir Martin Sorrell doesn’t have too much in common with messrs Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty, the trio who, when they set up BBH in 1982, announced they weren’t going to undertake creative pitches. Lots of agencies have said this at ...
Read More »S4 Capital’s MediaMonks becomes all-powerful..Media.Monks
Wot’s in a dot? Quite a lot according to S4 Capital which has unveiled its “unitary brand” for its operations (above), that is, MediaMonks (it’s big production business) with a..dot in the middle. This signifies, If I’m reading it right, ...
Read More »S4 Capital surges into 2021 – what’s next for great dealmaker Sorrell?
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital roars on, reporting first quarter 2021 revenue up 71% to £122 million, up 35% like-for-like, with gross profit up 71% to £104 million, up 33% like-for-like (S4 is a lot bigger now than a year ...
Read More »‘Raging bull’ Sorrell expands MediaMonks in China with creative agency Tomorrow
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 ...
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