Zenith UK also announces new head of programmatic, Matthew Bushby
Today, Zenith UK chief executive Natalie Cummins has promoted Sannah Rogers and Jon Stevens both to Managing Director. Rogers will lead on agency operations and Stevens on client service. Cummins also announces two additional promotions from within the agency. Richard Kirk, who joined Zenith UK as Managing Partner (Strategy & Data) earlier this year, has been […]
Demand for mass audiences continues to rise, but supply is falling as consumers turn to non- commercial media
Media inflation has exceeded adspend growth throughout the decade
US-China trade war will offset the gains from sport and elections in 2020
In 2022 the UK will become the first market in the world where 70% of adspend is digital
Advertisers will increase their global ad expenditure by 4.3% in 2020, but the commercial audiences supplied by media owners will shrink by 1.6%, fuelling a 6.1% increase in media prices, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published today. Demand for advertising has grown consistently throughout this decade. To sustain market share, large brands need to maintain […]
Will Manage All Broadcast, Digital and Print Planning and Buying
TaylorMade Golf, a leading manufacturer of high-performance golf equipment, announced today that the company has selected INNOCEAN USA (INNOCEAN) as its Agency of Record to handle all media planning and media buying responsibilities for the brand. Following a formal review period starting at the end of 2018, the account was awarded to INNOCEAN in September […]
Every year, in observance of International Human Rights Day on December 10, millions of letters are sent to the persecuted from people they’ve never met. The messages help convince government officials to release the imprisoned for expressing their opinion, stop the use of torture and end other human rights violations. It’s all done in connection […]
Two British icons unite for exclusive launch of film trailer
In a world media first, the first film trailer for the highly anticipated 25th James Bond movie No Time To Die was released on the iconic Piccadilly Lights in London this afternoon (December 4). The film, which is distributed by Universal Pictures, is released in the UK on April 2 2020. This is the first time a […]
- Barnes was previously Strategy Director at Dentsu Aegis Network
- Follows hire of Stuart Lunn as Managing Director in September of this year
Havas Media Manchester has announced the appointment of Lucy Barnes to the newly-created role of Strategy Partner, as the regional hub seeks to further strengthen its leadership team. Barnes joins from Dentsu Aegis Network, where she was a board-level Strategy Director, with responsibility for existing clients and new business, working on brands including Arcadia Group, Matalan […]
Independent global media advisor, MediaSense, has appointed Andrea Bernhardt as its Strategy Director to support the growing media transformation practice. Bernhardt will support brands to better maximise media investment and advise on organisational operating models for the consultancy’s global client portfolio. Bernhardt starts with immediate effect. Bernhardt joins MediaSense from Reckitt Benckiser, where she led […]
Today, IG, the leading UK-based financial trading company, has launched a digital Out of Home (DOOH) branding channel to bring breaking news to commuters in the city. A DOOH media first for the financial sector, this long-term initiative is booked to run on JCDecaux’s Motion@TheCity network until 27th April 2020 inclusive. Produced by Grand Visual, IG’s […]
SunLife, the leading over 50s financial services company has appointed independent data marketing partnership, Medialab for its media planning and buying with immediate effect. SunLife who offer market leading life insurance, equity release and funeral plans, will collaborate with Medialab to create a data and insight planning partnership across offline and digital marketing investment and campaign attribution […]
69% of digital media will be programmatic in 2020
Programmatic adspend to exceed US$100bn for the first time in 2019
While programmatic continues to rise, its adspend growth is slowing due to industry challenges of privacy and supply-chain that must be addressed to resume faster growth Brands need to develop new targeting techniques using first-party data and customer data platforms in response to the ongoing death of the cookieUK-specific: We forecast continued […]