Opinion

The huge success of Amazon’s Alexa device, and the growth of voice recognition software (VRS) in general, throws up a number of very interesting conundrums for the marcomms industry...

Proper investigative journalism is, in these straitened times for newspaper publishers, sadly something of a rarity at the moment. There have been examples in recent times – The Guardian’s...

An interesting mergers trend has been making itself felt in the marcomms industry over the past few weeks. Not mergers between agencies, though – but within them. Only last...

Over the past few weeks, I (and, I suspect, a lot of other people) have been thinking about news. Not just the news, but news. Ever since last year,...

I’m talking about yesterday’s announcement that Arthur Sadoun is to succeed Maurice Lévy as chairman and chief executive of Publicis Groupe. While speculation as to who would succeed the...

The Drum reports UK ad industry greets Theresa May’s Brexit plan with bated breath. Prime minister Theresa May’s much-anticipated reveal of a “bold and ambitious” Brexit from the European...

Omnicom’s TBWA is poised to take a stake in independent agency Lucky Generals in a deal that could be announced as early as next week, The Drum has learned...

If there’s anyone in the media industry who is guaranteed to spring a surprise, it’s Rupert Murdoch. And he certainly did that when he announced (through his 21st Century...

At the start of this year, we flagged Karmarama as one of the last independent agencies of scale left in the UK. We also said that it was unlikely...

There was an interesting piece of news last week. Global network Publicis merged two of its biggest digital agencies, Razorfish and SapientNitro, to create SapientRazorfish. We’ll come back to...