Do we need Sir Martin Sorrell to remind us that we go in and out of recession every ten years or so? Whether that be bath shaped, L shaped or turkey twizzler shaped? No. What Sir Martin could usefully tell us is what, in these troubled times, his agencies should be saying on behalf of their clients....
The Financial Times has gone St Bernard-mad. First, the paper made Sir Martin Sorrell (note his fetching "Obama" hat in our picture) pose with a St Bernard in Davos, Switzerland, then it swamped London's media agencies with large dogs bearing nips of brandy as support in the rocky financial...
We've been sent a picture of Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP chief executive, at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos with a St Bernard dog. Oh and an Obama beanie. This is a picture caption competition waiting to happen - please let's be having your suggestions. I should say, (as if you couldn't...
WPP's GroupM has reduced its forecast for headline UK internet ad growth dramatically from 20% to 4% for 2009. That's huge almost too huge. It does temper this by saying that some of the fall is due to a maturing internet market and not all is downturn related, but still. The radical predictions...
Writing in The Times today Sir Martin Sorrell makes his case for the economic bounce back coming sooner than other think (2009 he says) although the piece could have benefited from last minute editing regards India. The WPP chief executive plumps for 2009 as opposed to others saying 2010 or even 2011...
As Sir Martin Sorrell observed last week, WPP Group’s current budgeting exercise for next year may not reflect the Armageddon currently predicted by the fall in stock prices, but that’s not to say the picture will be a cheerful one either. Even Sir Martin acknowledged 2009 will be a “very tough year...
Once upon a time in Ireland, if you earned your living as a writer, you didn't have to pay income tax. What a great way to encourage a creative culture, from the country that brought you Joyce, Behan, Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Now WPP is moving to Ireland to take advantage of the tax conditions....
A lot of people have had a good laugh at the name of the agency that WPP Group set up to handle its global Dell account, but some joker has taken it a step further with a spoof website Enfartico, which is amusingly close to the original. WPP is reported to have gone through a string of names before settling...
After the New York Times last week, more evidence that the lifeline of online advertising is not looking as strong as it once was, with more newspaper firms saying growth is slowing It was reported last week after the New York Times Company warned that online advertising growth this year won't be...
Richard Desmond has gone to New York and he's having a go at everybody. He's even calling Sir Martin Sorrell short. Desmond is surely one of those men who never just has a bee in his bonnet, but an entire hive. As well as gratuitously laying into Sorrell (the two had a bit of a bust-up in February...
