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S4Capital’s global growth continues apace with Sir Martin Sorrell’s self-styled new era digital and marketing services company conditionally agreeing a merger between its MediaMonks content creation business and India’s WhiteBalance, a complementary business based in Delhi. S4 opened an office ...

Did he or didn’t he? S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell clearly had a vigorous exchange of views with Jim Prior (below), boss of his old company WPP’s Superunion brand consultancy, at the recent Web Summit in Lisbon (Sorrell had promoted Prior ...

S4Capital’s executive chairman Sir Martin Sorrell (he really wants us to remember the executive bit) is bestriding the business world like a mini-colossus, as if nothing has changed from his WPP days (except he always works in a plug for ...

Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4Capital setting the pace in advertising, barely a year after he set it up following his defenestration from WPP? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, and now Fimalac, a holding company owned ...

Sir Martin Sorrell says his S4Capital has morphed into a pumpkin from a peanut (maybe biology’s not his thing) as it reports organic growth of over 40 per cent this year in a third quarter trading update. He says: “Our ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has bought two “analytics” companies to merge with its digital media operation MightyHive: ConversionWorks, a digital analytics, biddable media and data science company in London, and Datalicious Korea, a South Korea-based data and analytics consultancy. ConversionWorks ...

Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t just a critic (see yesterday) but a doer too. Now his new S4Capital has “merged” Firewood, claimed to be Silicon Valley’s largest digital agency with MediaMonks, the foundation of the S4 empire. Firewood, reported to have ...

Sir Martin Sorrell may own 1.4 per cent of WPP (the biggest individual shareholder as he reminds us below) but he thinks the marcoms giant is no longer “fit for purpose” and the best way to get his money back ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital, comprising mainly Media Monks and programmatic media company MightyHive, has revealed its six-month results with billings up 44.4 per cent (38.7 per cent in constant currencies) to £184m, revenue of £88m (about the same) but operating ...