MUMBAI: WPP company J. Walter Thompson Australia has acquired a majority stake in Webling Interactive, an independent digital agency based in Sydney. Webling offers an end-to-end...
MUMBAI: Emirates Airline has selected a team of WPP agencies to handle its global branding and creative account after an extensive review. Headquartered in London,...
MUMBAI: WPP, which currently holds shares representing just below 30 per cent of the issued share capital in Syzygy AG, is planning to make a tender offer...
MUMBAI: Martin Sorrell’s WPP and buyout firm Providence Equity Partners have agreed to acquire British communication and sports marketing group Chime Communications for ?374 million. ...
MUMBAI: WPP’s Wunderman Health has acquired a majority stake in ABS MM NV (ABS Creative) in Belgium. Founded in 1999, based in Brussels and employing...
MUMBAI: WPP’s wholly owned operating company Kantar Media has invested in BIScience (2009) Ltd, a data analytics firm that specializes in platforms for cross-channel and multi-country...
MUMBAI: WPP and the Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI) have joined hands to establish the ISDI WPP School of Communication in Mumbai. Located...
MUMBAI: WPP’s GroupM has acquired a majority stake in directComm Marketing Group, a leading provider of integrated direct marketing services in Turkey. directComm specialises in...
MUMBAI: Martin Sorrell led communications services group WPP has signed a landmark agreement with Nan Fung Group and B.M. Group to lease 20 floors and 41,000...
MUMBAI: WPP’s media agency has opened a new office in Accra, Ghana. This comes less than six months after the agency opened the doors to...
MUMBAI: Ogilvy & Mather worldwide chairman and CEO Miles Young will be retiring from this role next year to take up the position of Warden of his alma...
MUMBAI: WPP has increased its stake from 20 per cent to 49 per cent in TechEdge, a supplier of software that enables the analysis of TV...
MUMBAI: WPP has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Germany’s independent agency Hirschen Group. Following the investment, Hirschen Group will partner with WPP’s...
MUMBAI: WPP, Lazard and Richard Attias & Associates (a WPP affiliate) have formed a joint initiative to create nation branding programs through the organization of international...
MUMBAI: In the first quarter of 2015, India continued the strong growth seen for WPP in the Asia Pacific market, with China being a little weaker....
MUMBAI: WPP’s programmatic media and technology platform Xaxis has formally launched Light Reaction, a new mobile-first performance advertising business with an innovative outcomes-based, pay-for-performance media model....
MUMBAI: Ogilvy & Mather was recognized with top accolades as both O&M North America and the New York office were recognized as the most effective individual...
MUMBAI: WPP’s global brand strategy and design agency Brand Union has promoted Toby Southgate to worldwide CEO, effective 1 July. Southgate will manage the growth...
MUMBAI: As part of its ongoing commitment to delivering adaptive planning and thinking, for clients and dynamic markets, Mindshare APAC has realigned its senior leadership in...
MUMBAI: WPP’s global digital agency Mirum, which is a part of J. Walter Thompson Company, has acquired a majority stake in Germany’s full-service digital marketing agency...
MUMBAI: Apple has overtaken Google to reclaim the title of ‘world’s most valuable brand’ in the 2015 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands released by...
MUMBAI: Sir Martin Sorrell led WPP is on an acquisition spree. The company’s China-based field and shopper marketing unit Always Marketing Services has acquired Singapore based...
MUMBAI: Carat has appointed Navaneeta Das as international client president for Mondelez International based out of Singapore for Asia Pacific. Das will head up the...
MUMBAI: WPP’s wholly-owned operating company Grey Healthcare Group has acquired a minority stake in US based PARx Solutions, Inc. PARx has built a platform designed...
MUMBAI: WPP has acquired a majority stake in London based sports marketing agency Two Circles. Following the deal, Two Circles will become part of ESP...
MUMBAI: GroupM is expanding its sports and entertainment offering under a new global agency brand, ESP, which will comprise two separate businesses: ESP Properties and ESP...
MUMBAI: Digital lifestyle media company Refinery29 has raised $50 million in new funding from WPP and Scripps Networks Interactive, via WPP Ventures. This brings the...
MUMBAI: Advertising major Publicis Groupe reported a 31.7 per cent jump in first-quarter sales as a result of the positive impact of exchange rates, and partly...
MUMBAI: WPP’s Data Alliance has launched in Africa. The launch is aligned to WPP’s strategic vision of helping clients better leverage data in fast growing markets. ...
MUMBAI: WPP has acquired US based mobile ad serving and measurement company Medialets Inc. Medialets offers software tools to help marketers manage and measure the complete...
MUMBAI: WPP’s brand communications agency Cohn & Wolfe has appointed Andrew Escott, formerly managing director of UK Corporate, as global corporate practice leader effective immediately. ...
MUMBAI: WPP has launched Gain Theory, a marketing foresight consultancy that will bring together data, analytics, technology solutions and consumer-insight capabilities. It combines WPP’s intellectual...
MUMBAI: Effie Worldwide has released its global rankings for the most effective marketers, brands, agency holding groups, agency networks, agency offices and independent agencies according to...
MUMBAI: WPP’s Data Alliance and Facebook have deepened a global partnership giving marketers access to new data-driven solutions that deliver personalization at scale on Facebook. This...
MUMBAI: Mindshare APAC, the global media agency network part of WPP, has appointed Varun Channa as managing director of Mindshare Malaysia. Channa takes over the...
MUMBAI: WPP’s wholly-owned operating company Xaxis has agreed to acquire Action Exchange, Inc. (ActionX), a mobile advertising and e-commerce company in the United States. ActionX’s proprietary...
MUMBAI: Ogilvy & Mather has joined forces with Hogarth Worldwide, a sister WPP company, to launch H&O (Hogarth & Ogilvy) – a new company that will...
MUMBAI: Kuvera, a wholly owned WPP company specializing in e-commerce in China has forged a partnership with Paipai, China’s social commerce platform on mobile owned by...
MUMBAI: WPP has agreed to acquire a minority stake in FlowNetwork. FlowNetwork is a new, Swedish, over-the-top television service, delivering its programmes via the internet, which supplies...
MUMBAI: For 2014, Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group reported a record ?1.5 billion annual profit in 2014, which was up by 12 per cent on reported revenue...
MUMBAI: iTV network’s English news channel NewsX has launched its new See Beyond campaign to enhance its brand values and depict its stand. Targeted primarily at the youth, the campaign...
MUMBAI: Media agency MEC has officially opened its doors to a new Sub-Saharan network, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Following WPP’s move to a controlling stake...
MUMBAI: GroupM has launched its MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare media agencies in sub-Saharan Africa, supplementing GroupM’s existing offering in South Africa and Northern Africa and strengthening...
MUMBAI: WPP’s global communications company, tenthavenue, has appointed Sudipto Roy as CEO of Emerging Markets, covering Asia, Africa, Middle East and Turkey. Roy will lead...
MUMBAI: ComScore has inked a strategic alliance with WPP’s data investment management division, Kantar. The alliance, which covers territories outside the US, establishes a framework...
MUMBAI: Mindshare APAC, the global media agency network part of WPP, has appointed Prasanth Kumar or PK as he is popularly known, to the role of...
The year 2014 will go down in history as the year of Indian politics. The main contenders of the two-horse race, Bharatiya Janta Party and Congress,...
MUMBAI: WPP plc has appointed Roberto Quarta to its board as a non-executive director and chairman-designate. He will join the board on 1 January 2015 and...
MUMBAI: In the country where cricket and movies are more than a pastime, for Ajay Mehta films meant more than just a family business. Brought up...
MUMBAI: It has been a stupendous growth story. Contrary to popular trade perception the DTH advertising growth story has only ended up surprising all. With...
