MediaDailyNews
Thursday, July 7, 2011
  • M&A Media Activity Up 14%, Publicis Leads Pack

    Investment banking firm Berkery Noyes says M&A activity in the media and marketing sector increased 14% so far this year over the previous six … Read the whole story

  • OMD Wants To Ignite Its Entire Factory, Names Haber Chief Innovation Officer

    Jonathan Haber, a rising "creative" media star inside Omnicom Group, has been named Chief Innovation Officer of OMD, overseeing all of the agency's development … Read the whole story

  • Better TV Metrics Can Up Ad Creativity

    Television advertisements can be the most effective pieces of commercial art ever created. So why are do there seem to be so many bad … Read the whole story

  • GroupM Lowers Global Outlook: Cites Japan, Mideast

    GroupM has reduced its forecast for 2011 ad growth globally, but the WPP arm still has that rate topping the U.S. GroupM now projects … Read the whole story

  • Essig Heads Hearst's Men's Enthusiast Group

    The big game of magazine business musical chairs is continuing this week, as Hearst taps Jack Essig, formerly of Rodale, to head up the … Read the whole story

  • Ball Four: NYTCO Sells Most of Red Sox Stake

    After several years on the auction block, the New York Times Co. has finally sold a large part of its stake in the Fenway … Read the whole story

  • Soccer Rx: J&J Sponsors World Cup

    Johnson & Johnson has signed on as a global sponsor for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. J&J becomes the official global health care … Read the whole story