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Sir Martin Sorrell has speculated two further major marketing network consolidations could be set to take place following the collapse of the Publicis-Omnicom deal

Sir Martin Sorrell has speculated two further major marketing network consolidations could be set to take place following the collapse of the Publicis-Omnicom deal

When things aren’t working out, it’s better to skip the wedding than get a divorce

When things aren’t working out, it’s better to skip the wedding than get a divorce

Blinkx, an online ad platform with a focus on video, on Tuesday announced it has acquired Lyfe Mobile

The collapse of the Publicis-Omnicom merger removes the threat to WPP’s position as the industry’s largest group by revenues and delighted its chief executive

Messe Frankfurt has joined forces with US tradeshow organiser Advanstar Communications on the launch of of Automechanika Chicago in 2015

From a business perspective, the Financial Times is one of the most successful traditional newspapers in the world in the transition to digital.

A new publishing company has acquired Scarlet Magazine, the “magazine dedicated to celebrating the sex lives and relationships of women” and will re-launch the former print periodical later this month as a digital-only title. Scarlet Publishing Ltd has been formed by Rebekah Billingsley, former Digital Publishing Director of BBC Worldwide and Wes Stanton, owner of […]

WPP’s data investment management (DIM) arm has sold off its US call center business, Center Partners, to Mexico-based business process outsourcing (BPO) and call centre service provider Qualfon

ITV will initially pay $360m for an 80 per cent stake in Leftfield, with the total fee rising to $800m

AOL shares tumbled more than 20 per cent after the internet company missed first-quarter earnings expectations, spooking investors on its long-term turnround plans

AOL added yet another arrow to its ad-tech quiver Tuesday, snatching up attribution modeling company Convertro for approximately $101 million, the company announced

Jet, the magazine once described as “the Bible” for African-American readers, is closing its print edition in June and will transition to a digital-only publication, parent company Johnson Publishing said Wednesday

Yannick Bolloré, Havas Chairman and CEO, said: “Growth was very satisfactory in the first quarter of 2014”

Weber Shandwick has acquired Swedish PR agency Prime and its business intelligence arm United Minds

Zoopla Property, the property website majority owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, enjoyed record internet traffic, revenues and earnings in the six months to end-March

Zoopla Property, the property website majority owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, enjoyed record internet traffic, revenues and earnings in the six months to end-March

F+W has sold a majority stake to Tinicum L.P., a New York-based private equity firm

In another sign of the accelerating shift online in the advertising business, the Boston marketing agency Jack Morton Worldwide Inc. is acquiring a local digital agency, Genuine Interactive Inc