Tag Archives: WPP

Uncommon is reportedly challenging WPP in the last round of the British Airways pitch. Relative newbie Uncommon, a breakaway from WPP’s Grey in 2017, is an interesting choice by BA to challenge incumbent WPP’s team based around Ogilvy. There is ...

The return to the office is an issue for many companies and their staff, adland not excluded. Ogilvy UK, now comfortably ensconced in the Sea Containers building overlooking the Thames – after decades of exile in horrible Canary Wharf – ...

The dog that hasn’t barked yet as the marcoms world inches back to post-pandemic normality is M&A, the big deals that everyone expects but which haven’t, so far, happened. WPP, once the busiest acquirer, has pulled in its horns during ...

WPP is doing pretty well in the current round of media reviews (don’t worry, there’ll be another next year) as is consultant MediaSense which handled pharma giant Bayer’s $800m global media review which has just landed at WPP’s MediaCom. MediaCom ...

WPP has been fined a chunky $19m by America’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to ensure some of its overseas subsidiaries met accounting regulations. The offences pre-date 2018 when the current WPP regime headed by CEO Mark Read ...

WPP media agency Wavemaker has lured Verizon head of strategy Monica Majumdar (below) to be its UK head of strategy. Her responsibilities include new business. At Wavemaker she will report to CSO Verra Budimlija. Before two years at Verizon she ...

WPP has likely landed its biggest win of the year with the lion’s share of Unilever’s massive £6bn plus media budget, being re-appointed to Unilver’s business in most of the world including adding some markets. Omnicom’s PHD won Austria, Germany ...

WPP has bought Satalia which it describes as a “global leader in enterprise AI (artificial intelligence) and one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies.” Satalia clients include BT, DFS, DS Smith, PwC, Gigaclear, Tesco and Unilever. Alongside its Alongside its ...

For once WPP will be happy to follow in the footsteps of its peers: matching the likes of Omnicom and Publicis as growth returned with a vengeance in Q2 of 2021. Like for like revenue less pass-through costs (WPP’s somewhat ...