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WPP retains Mondelez's media mandate in India (updated)

Publicis takes largest bite out of Mondelez’s global media business

Mindshare global CFO joins You & Mr Jones Media

Dawn Dickie leaves WPP after 27 years and will reunite with former Mindshare CEO Nick Emery

WPP to merge MediaCom and Essence in radical Group M restructure

Mindshare, Xaxis and Finecast are also part of overhaul

Unforgivable, tone-deaf land grab’ could ‘decimate football’s legacy’

Communications experts have slammed the lack of stakeholder engagement and the timing of an announcement that 12 elite football clubs want to form a European Super league

UM names former Mediacom US leader as global CEO

Sasha Savic takes up the role and will report to IPG Mediabrands chief Eileen Kiernan

Publicis Media and Wavemaker split Adobe global media

Publicis Media wins APAC and EMEA while Wavemaker takes Americas and global work

Omnicom beats Havas to land British Airways global media account

The airline recently appointed Uncommon as its new creative agency

Havas hails 'aggressive' acquisition strategy as annual profit jumps 20%

Solid performance across creative, media and health

TikTok fined £12.7m for children's data and privacy breaches

The UK’s data watchdog said TikTok failed to protect the privacy of 1.4 million children

EssenceMediacom CEO Nick Lawson unveils new global leadership team

Josh Krichefski and Tim Irwin are handed key roles

Philips switches US$165 million global media account

OMG will start work on the Philips Domestic Appliances account from 1 April

Essence names Tim Irwin as new global COO

Irwin previously led EMEA for the agency and will be succeeded by Ryan Storrar

Should the latest Facebook revelations alarm advertisers?

Brand safety has become a major issue for advertisers and their media agencies to manage in recent years, so should brands be concerned about the latest Facebook revelations?

Twitter advertisers exit as brand safety concerns escalate

Agency leaders warn that cutting resources into moderation and Musk’s own behaviour on Twitter is turning advertisers away from the platform

Edelman to cut 390 staff globally due to pandemic impact

Edelman is reducing its global workforce by nearly 7 per cent as the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic completely erode its profit margin.

Mindshare splits 'mind' and 'share' as part of brand refresh

The GroupM agency says new brand ID is 'next step in its transformation'

Unilever shareholder's attack on sustainability messaging 'flawed', experts say

Senior marketers argue 'purpose' and 'sustainability' will become 'stick to beat away poor performance'

What's behind the ‘unprecedented’ Beijing Winter Olympics whiteout?

Global sponsors have been mostly silent leading up to the Games, but a flurry of China activity is predicted. Here's a round-up of what we know so far

Burberry restarts global media review after two-year pause during the pandemic

Four agency groups are in the running, including the incumbent Dentsu

Christian Juhl on EssenceMediacom: ‘Clients want a single agency to handle brand and performance’

GroupM CEO talks about the merger and restructure

Weekend Watch: Nike celebrates Liverpool’s ‘winning against all odds’ mentality

'Tell us never' campaign introduces world to 'Republic of Liverpool'.

Google sued for £3.4bn over lost publisher ad revenues

It is the second claim filed on behalf of UK publishers in six months

OMD wins Burberry’s global media account

The Omnicom agency will succeed Dentsu in 2023

Advertisers spend $2.6bn on misinformation websites

For every $2.16 spent on news websites in the US, $1 is spent on misinformation

Mindshare rolls out 'human intelligence' targeting tools

The move aims to provide advertisers with more concise and contextual media planning

Swarovski hands global media duties to Publicis Media

Zenith will be responsible for media planning and buying across 33 markets

PHD refreshes brand with audio visual focus

New logo and animation designed by Cosmo Jameson

Wavemaker wins Audible’s $500m global media account

Global review consolidated media in 10 markets to single agency

PHD's APAC strategy head Chris Stephenson promoted to global marketing chief

Stephenson will relocate to London to begin the new role in January 2022 and succeeds Avril Canavan, who left PHD after 11 years in the role to become a consultant

Major media agencies reach united stance over audits

Agency association publishes guidelines for clients auditing media spend, though admits lack of consensus with auditors

Mindshare launches measurement tool for creative

The agency worked with Meta to develop a tool that assesses the impact of good creative

World Cup 2022: Festive football’s big-money gamble

A winter World Cup poses tough decisions for marketers and agencies. Focus on the footie or the Christmas cheer? Address the controversies surrounding Qatar as the host nation or not? There’s money to be made for brands that get it right and reputations to be lost for those that don’t

Lenovo splits global media duties following review

Dentsu and Performics will cover Lenovo's APAC markets, while Stagwell's Assembly has won the business in EMEA and the Americas

Eugene the egg revealed as cracking campaign for mental health

The mystery behind one of the biggest 'stars' to emerge on Instagram has finally been broken.

IProspect names global managing director and client chief

Dentsu-owned agency has also expanded the role of its global client president

GroupM launches global framework to reduce carbon footprint of media

Clients will be advised on which channels, and eventually media vendors, are causing the most carbon emissions in effort to slash advertising's carbon footprint

Global adspend to grow 9.2% powered by Olympics, World Cup and US mid-terms

The top five markets in 2022 will continue to be the US, China, Japan, UK and Germany, while the fastest growing markets will be India, US, Russia and Canada

Qatar's Budweiser beer ban ‘a storm in a pint cup’

Sports marketing leaders say the last minute U-turn on Bud selling alcoholic beer at World Cup games has been blown out of proportion

Red Bull Racing: Winning the race off the track

Red Bull Racing has overtaken Mercedes to become the team with the second-largest fan base in Formula One. Chief marketing officer Oliver Hughes explains how it has been attracting sponsors, engaging with younger audiences and becoming a media platform in a new age of sports marketing

Are global pitches that consolidate media partners a sign of things to come?

Arvind Hickman