Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its…

Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…

The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the intersection of its two targeted growth areas - digital and emerging markets.

WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network.

Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has slashed its full-year growth forecast to 5%, after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in the third quarter, lower than its rivals.

Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), alongside China Broadband Capital (CBC), Redpoint Ventures and WPP Digital.

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While most large ad budgets have been locked in for the next few months, unless there is a miraculous and quick economic turnaround, the ad recovery that began in 2010 is looking weaker and weaker.

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“Direct, digital and interactive have resumed their relatively stronger growth rate, when compared to traditional media,” according to the world’s largest ad agency.

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 spending locked in for major media for the magazines and TV, Deutsche Bank analysts don’t expect the wild swings of the stock market to have much…

In a move designed to streamline and simplify its media buying processes since its merger with NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), Comcast has split the company’s $1 billion-plus media buying and planning account between WPP Group and Publicis. The decision calls for NBC Universal’s business to go to Maxus, which is…

With publishers looking to e-commerce to supplement a shrinking share of ad dollars, it’s natural the advertising agencies expand their marketing abilities across shopping both online and offline. That’s the idea behind WPP Group creative shop JWT North America’s acquisition of Lunchbox, a Los Angeles marketing firm that connects brands…

Digital advertising—at least the portion that is measured - will make up a 17 percent share of all global advertising this year, a full point ahead of where WPP Group thought it would be in its December forecast. The ad holding company’s media unit, GroupM, issued its latest forecast today…

The deals just kept coming in the first half of the year and thanks to increasing competition in the advertising agency and digital marketing businesses, the continued growth of social media and the need for analytics to make it all work, the next six months should resemble the previous ones,…

WPP Group has launched Xaxis, an in-house data management platform that will allow its media buying agency Group M to provide audience targeting in a more direct way than it has before. The acquisition builds on the growing focus on ad exchanges and buying through agency trading desks, which WPP…

Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products—or at least when people are thinking of buying them. A new survey of of consumers and enterprises in Europe finds that the iPhone is the most-wanted smartphone, handily beating Android, BlackBerry and Nokia (NYSE: NOK)…

Trying to get beyond the notion that “paid media” (e.g., advertising) is naturally reinforced by “earned media” (news articles, Likes/retweets on Facebook, Twitter), WPP Group’s Kantar Video and Synaptic Digital looked at how those approaches lift brands across the gender divide. One example looked at what sort of information influences…

WPP Group creative shop JWT is looking to forge a closer relationship with new tech companies and is sponsoring the TechStars’ New York summer program next month. TechStars currently runs accelerator programs in Boulder, Colo., Seattle, Boston; it began working on a New York outpost earlier this year.