Tag Archives: VMLY&R

WPP CEO Mark Read may have won good notices for the ad giant’s first half numbers – a bit better than expected, the wheels haven’t fallen off – although they’re still looking rather wonky in the US, still WPP’s most ...

VMLY&R has announced its new European management line-up headed by CEO Andrew Dimitriou, previously president of Y&R Europe. Jamie Mandelbaum is CCO and Saul Betmead CSO. The recently-merged WPP agency is also launching three so-called regional centres of excellence in ...

More diverting doings in London’s adland: AMV BBDO group chairman Justin Pahl (left) is off to be CEO of WPP’s VMLY&R London (which doesn’t look like the most obvious thing to do) leaving Sarah Douglas in charge as AMV CEO ...

It must seem like some sort of curse has fallen on the C-Suite at the old Y&R HQ at the Black Cat factory in London’s Camden district. Barely a couple of months ago the UK leaders of Y&R CEO Paul ...

We don’t think anyone expected 2018 to turn out quite like this: JWT disappearing into Wunderman, Y&R into VML (not that many people knew what VML was in January) and Sir Martin Sorrell departing WPP in acrimonious circumstances, to do ...

Much kerfuffle about a memo from WPP financial controller David Barker imposing a hiring freeze on the embattled group’s agencies, hardly a surprise as WPP as battling falling sales and revenues. Apparently WPP was planning to hire about 2,000 people ...

Master of the soundbite Sir Martin Sorrell is getting his knickers into something of a twist as he roams the world plugging new company S4C and its first buy MediaMonks. To wit, that he’s not interested in “creativity.” Sorrell, of ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

The UK seems to have gone baking mad since Great British Bake Off (is this why we’re all getting so fat?) and Irish liqueur brand Baileys is trying to get in on the act with its first global digital campaign ...