Increasing number of cross-border deals and interest in APAC businesses drives buoyant marcoms M&A market in Q3 2015

Increasing number of cross-border deals and interest in APAC businesses drives buoyant marcoms M&A market in Q3 2015

Research released by specialist marcoms M&A firm Results International has shown that the number of global marcoms deals completed in Q3 2015 rose by 7% from Q2 (264 deals in Jul-Sep compared to 246 in Apr-Jun). This has been driven largely by a jump in the number of cross-border deals. More than a third (36%) […]

DDB Mudra Group’s Madhukar Kamath: E-Commerce has the most exciting potential in the Indian Ad Industry

DDB Mudra Group’s Madhukar Kamath: E-Commerce has the most exciting potential in the Indian Ad Industry

MarComm News’ Editorial Director Neeraj Nayar, sat down with DDB Mudra Group’s Group CEO & Managing Director, Madhukar Kamath on his recent trip to London, to get the low down on the rapidly growing Indian Advertising and Marketing Industry. Madhukar has more than three decades of experience in Advertising and Marketing Services and has spent […]

Yahoo Signs Search Deal with Google

Yahoo Signs Search Deal with Google

Yahoo has signed an agreement with Google as the new provider of Yahoo’s search ads, after ending its exclusive deal with Microsoft’s Bing in April. The deal, which covers both Yahoo’s own properties and certain affiliate sites, will see ads served through Google’s AdSense for Search. Yahoo will receive an undisclosed percentage of the resulting […]

New Bicester Village campaign parodies menswear advertising

New Bicester Village campaign parodies menswear advertising

Bicester Village, the designer outlet shopping centre, is launching a humourous new online campaign sending up impossibly perfect menswear advertising and style films. The comical online film, created by Just So, features an immaculately groomed individual who describes himself as “a sculptor, a filmmaker and more”. We meet him in his “enormous studio” as he […]

BETC Take Assassin’s Creed to The Industrial Revolution

BETC Take Assassin’s Creed to The Industrial Revolution

The new instalment of Ubisoft’s #1 license, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, takes place in London during the year of 1868, in the heart of the industrial revolution. An era marked by unprecedented progress, but also social injustice with an oppressed working class. BETC has created the official trailer of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which was directed by […]

Y&R named Network of the Year at 2015 Golden Drum Awards

Y&R named Network of the Year at 2015 Golden Drum Awards

Y&R, a global agency with offices in 93 countries, was recognized as “Agency Network of the Year” at the Golden Drum Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s most prestigious advertising festival. The “Agency Network of the Year” honor is the most important award of the festival and is given to the agency with the most cumulative […]

PepsiCo Exec Brad Jakeman Has Tough Words for Agencies

PepsiCo Exec Brad Jakeman Has Tough Words for Agencies

Ad agency models are breaking. Pre-roll ads are useless. Measurement models are outdated. The ad industry lacks diversity. And the phrase digital marketing should be dumped. Those statements were among the declarations made on October 14, by PepsiCo exec Brad Jakeman in a fiery, truth-telling presentation at the Association of National Advertising’s annual “Masters of […]

DDB Singapore Puts a Spin on Que Sera for the Women’s Tennis Association

DDB Singapore Puts a Spin on Que Sera for the Women’s Tennis Association

Believe in fate? ‘Forget that,’ is what StarHub and DDB are telling you in their newly released commercial for the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals. In 2015, StarHub is once again the Official Telecommunications and Broadcast Partner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals Singapore, and they want you to rethink what we are telling […]