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The world’s biggest advertisers are trying to take back control of their digital and programmatic ad spend and, in what may be the most significant move to date, US telecoms giant AT&T has lured WPP’s GroupM North America CEO Brian ...

With Ruper Murdoch what you see is usually what you get. While the old boy is capable of springing big surprises from time to time, they’re always in character. But his decision to pull 21st Century Fox’s $80bn bid for ...

I was beginning to worry about WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell – since Cannes he’s been strangely quiet. Did he overdo it on La Croisette? Perhaps he picked up a bug, because he certainly sounds a bit croaky in this interview ...

You can’t keep a Dirty Digger down (pace Private Eye) and now octogenarian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (left) is trying to buy film rival Time Warner for his 21st Century Fox empire for $80bn, a 25 per cent premium to ...

WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has taken his war of words with rebellious shareholders over a 30% pay increase to the pages of the Financial Times. The crux of his robust defence is twofold. First, he is being rewarded ...

One-time market-leading ISP AOL has been trying to reinvent itself as an online content provider since it split from Time Warner in 2009 and now CEO Tim Armstrong has bet the ranch on Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post, the ...

Or so the BBC (and the Financial Times and New York Times) seem to think. Top investment bank Goldman Sachs (the global economy’s version of Paddy Power) has stuck a load of its own money into Facebook stock (or options) ...

Apple is set to become the biggest provider of on-demand films in the US by the end of 2014 according to research firm Screen Digest. Through its iTunes store it will overtake the second-placed company Time Warner by the end ...

One of the reasons the internet, and before that direct mail, have driven a coach and horses through traditional media models is that they provide results, more or less instantly. Now giant US magazine publisher Time Warner and media buyer ...