In a surprise move, The Weather Channel Companies is swapping out CEOs. David Kenny is replacing Mike Kelly as CEO effective immediately; th… Read More »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read More »
– JumpTime: Elizabeth Osder joins as SVP of strategy and business development. Reporting to co-founder and CEO Michele DiLorenzo, Osder wil… Read More »
Like most major ad agencies, Publicis Groupe digital shop Razorfish became very bullish on ad exchanges this past year, increasing the amoun… Read More »
A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read More »
Google Expands DoubleClick Inventory From Mobile Web To Apps
Now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been making strong inroads into consolidating its hold on the PC-based display marketplace through its Doub… Read More »
One of the advantages that offline media like magazines, out-of-home TV have over online is this: budgets tend to move slowly. With most ad… Read More »
Comcast Divides $1 Billion Media Account Between WPP And Publicis
In a move designed to streamline and simplify its media buying processes since its merger with NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), Comcast has spli… Read More »
The Morning Lowdown 07-18-11
» Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment (paidContent) » WSJ To News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). Critics: STF… Read More »
Publicis Groupe Offering To Buy Social Media Marketer Big Fuel
The trend of agencies look to build up their social media capabilities with specialized marketing services acquisitions has accelerated in r… Read More »
Jordan, Edmiston: M&A Activity In Ad Market Will Surge Through End Of ’11
The deals just kept coming in the first half of the year and thanks to increasing competition in the advertising agency and digital marketin… Read More »
AOL Goes To Cannes — And Brings An ‘Agency-Only’ App With It
A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long C… Read More »
To Digitas, Razorfish, VivaKi and Publicis Modem, add Rosetta. Publicis, one of the big four global advertising groups, is buying the Prince… Read More »
The recent series of catastrophe’s that befell Japan in the past few weeks along with the economic uncertainty raised by the uprisings in th… Read More »
» At Publicis, a big bet on digital seems to be paying off. (NYT) » Twentieth Century Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) st… Read More »
» How is The Daily doing so far? 500,000 downloads, (perhaps) 75,000 regular users (not all of them paying subs, however). (Mixed… Read More »
All the main ad companies regard digital and emerging markets as their two big growth pillars. But, as slides in Razorfish owner Publicis’ 2… Read More »
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