Tag Archives: WPP

According to Mail Online Mindshare global boss Nick Emery was fired after entering the loo for a wee and baring his bottom, visible during a Zoom call. Pretty silly but enough to bring an abrupt end to a 20-year career ...

Mindshare global CEO Nick Emery (below) is the latest senior adland figure to fall foul of changing mores, fired by GroupM owner WPP for an unspecified “clear breach of conduct.” GroupM CEO Christian Juhl, who’s taking over as interim boss ...

WPP’s Grey has won a role as Carlsberg’s “global advertising partner” although the Danish brewer says it will continue to work with local agencies too – good news for the UK’s Fold7 presumably, among others. Grey has handled Carlsberg’s Tuborg ...

Here’s WPP CEO Mark Read telling Ad Age’s Jeanine Poggi what he thinks about working in lockdown, returning to the office (WPP has a lot of them of course), diversity and, on about 19 minutes, the dreaded ageism which landed ...

WPP CEO Mark Read may be thinking back to 2016 as he contemplates two massive account reviews: Walgreens Boots Alliance is reviewing its across-the-board global deal with WPP up against Publicis as its three-year contract comes up while T-Mobile is ...

WPP’s Mark Read said he had a $4bn billing pipeline of new business recently and details are coming thick and fast from WPP HQ. On top of a big Whirlpool win in EMEA WPP has now landed Zespri International, which ...

Some good news for WPP boss Mark Read as he battles an army of irate pensioners: WPP has won washing machine giant Whirlpool’s EMEA communications business with one of those multi-agency constructs WPP and the other big holding companies are ...

Mark Read (below) has shown a fairly sure touch in his time as CEO of WPP – not least in his public pronouncements. But he let an angry and potentially highly damaging cat out of the bag when he observed ...

Mark Read has issued an apology for a pretty dubious comment he made to investors at WPP’s first half results presentation last week. Asked by an analyst if WPP has the right balance of people with skills in TV and ...