One of the great things about this industry – and particularly in the M&A space – is its ability to constantly surprise you. Here at Green Square, I’ve lost count...
Read moreEven by the old buccaneer’s standards, it was a daring, improbable approach – one that may have been rebuffed, but which may spark off one of the biggest media...
Read moreAll customers are not created equal and sometimes they can be more trouble than they are worth. Here’s how to deal with the difficult ones: 1. Decide what the...
Read moreAfter a month’s worth of rumour and speculation, Apple finally confirmed its purchase of the Beats headphone and streaming business (or, to give it its full name, Beats Electronics)...
Read moreIts unravelling was as fast and as surprising as its announcement: the $35bn Publicis-Omnicom merger – the biggest deal in the history of advertising – is off, it emerged...
Read moreISP is the one of the largest independent foster care agencies in the UK with over 300 children in care across seven centres. It offers a unique integrated model...
Read moreWe’ve often written in The Drum over the past year or so about non-marcomms companies getting in on the marcomms game, be they the likes of news and magazine...
Read more“One of the reasons this is happening,” commentators said last year when news of the Publicis-Omnicom mega-merger first broke, “is because Publicis is strong in digital and Omnicom isn’t”....
Read moreWe’re all used to Silicon Valley giants paying sky-high prices for tiny companies yet to make a profit, but $19bn? Unless you’ve been in some sort of news-free bubble...
Read moreRather than writing about the week’s big news – IPG’s much commented upon purchase of Profero – I thought that it might be more interesting to look at another...
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