Interpublic has reported a net loss of $48m (£28.8m) in its first quarter results, which revealed revenues were up 10.3% to $1.47bn.
Leo Burnett Brazil is to be renamed Leo Burnett Tailor Made, after yet another Brazilian agency acquisition by parent company Publicis Groupe, this time of independent advertising company, Tailor Made.
Easyjet is jumping on the Royal Wedding bandwagon with a tactical press ad featuring a host of puns about its destinations.
Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP is "cautiously optimistic" about prospects for the coming two years and has tipped the Olympic Games and other events to bump 2012 adspend up by 1%-2%.
WPP, owner of GroupM, JWT and Ogilvy, has reported a strong start to 2011 with organic growth of 6.7% year on year in the first quarter, according to a trading update.
Stella Artois has named wannabe film star Gustavo Alvarez from Argentina as the winner of its competition to appear in its film about the 'King of Cannes', to promote its sponsorship of the film festival.
28 Apr 2011
| by Jeremy Lee
For those of us old enough, or minded, to remember that period when comms planning was so cool it was palpably painful, it's difficult not to look back at its salad days with a feeling of some disbelief.
28 Apr 2011
| by Alasdair Reid
Eric Bader believes IPG's restructuring of its media network by economics actually makes perfect sense.
28 Apr 2011
| by Russell Davies
It seems that there's another tech bubble going on. Venture capitalists are throwing money around, companies with no obvious business model are having multimillionaire-dollar IPOs and start-ups are raising money based on some PowerPoint and lots of references to the social graph and location.
28 Apr 2011
| by Stephen Quinn and Jean Christie
Two publishers of high-end titles reveal how they and their brands will be celebrating and promoting the royal event of this year.