Month: June 2018

Kantar is facing a lot of speculation about its future at WPP. Since Martin Sorrell resigned as CEO of WPP in April, analysts and investors have buzzed about how the holding company can unlock value for shareholders in a period of slow growth. Many say selling the Kantar market research business, whose growth has lagged… Continue reading »

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If you read the stories recounted by the Financial Times about Martin Sorrell as a manager and top banana at WPP, you learn that he was an arrogant asshole who was cruel to his reports and pretty much
lived by his own rules. None of this comes as a great surprise

Facebook vice president of communications and public policy Elliot Schrage announced that he is leaving the company. Schrage, who celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the social network last month, will remain with Facebook until a replacement is named, a spokesperson said, after which he will serve as an advisor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief…

More than 400 Washington Post employees signed a petition to the publication’s owner and Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, demanding fair wages and an improvement to benefits. The Post shared the petition and a video of the staffers talking about their grievances in a social media campaign using the hashtag #DearJeffBezos. Those who signed the petition,…

When agencies work on internal holiday-centric content (see: holiday cards and videos), the results can be enjoyable, but mixed. For Father’s Day, it could be easy to go down the predictable path that advertising has built over the years with bumbling dads or the other various stereotypes. Hill Holliday, however, has significantly broken the mold…

Sure, voice is big these days, but it’s also turning commerce into a daily activity that happens as consumers go about their lives. That’s according to PR firm Walker Sands’ Future of Retail 2018 report. The survey was based on responses from 1,600 U.S. consumers. Here are the highlights of what they said about voice…

Facebook head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown explained in a blog post why news publishers will not be exempted from the social network’s recent introduced policy on political ads. Facebook announced last month that all election-related and issue ads in the U.S. on both Facebook and Instagram must now be clearly labeled, including disclosures…

IPG is continuing conversations around diversity and inclusion, leading the way for those on the MeToo movement to be sparked at the 2018 Lions festival by inviting a lineup of powerhouse female leaders to drive hard discussions on these topics at its eighth-annual Cannes breakfast. This year’s program, “Women at Work,” will celebrate “sheroes” who…

GrayKey, a $15,000 iPhone-unlocking box sold to police and other U.S. authorities by Atlanta startup Grayshift LLC, is in heavy use with some forensic law-enforcement authorities, prompting Apple to punch back.

As efficient mobile processors overtake their laptop-powering counterparts, Apple could switch MacBooks over to its own custom chips.