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World’s leading evidence-based insights and consulting company Kantar and multinational holding company WPP, have released the BrandZ study, which highlights the most valuable brands in the MENA region. With a combined value of $50 billion, the ranking includes consumer-facing brands from across a range of categories, from food to energy, which reflect the changing lifestyles and […]

Geometry Global, WPP’s end-to-end creative commerce agency has appointed Safwan El Roufai to lead its experiential offering as Executive Vice President for Middle East & North Africa. Communicate got an exclusive interview with Roufai to learn more about his new role and what plans he has in store for the agency. Why make the shift from […]

Geometry, WPP’s end to end creative commerce agency promotes Nick Walsh as the first-ever CEO of the agency in the region. A pioneer in the brand activation space, Walsh is credited with transforming the Dubai HQ internally as managing director of the firm and now in the new role, bigger challenges and opportunities awaits him. Communicate got […]

WPP’s end-to-end creative commerce agency names Roy Armale as its first global chief innovation officer. Armale began his career at Geometry working on the application of behavioral thinking in shopper marketing, to keep clients ahead of the transformation in retail. Since then, his work across the agency’s diverse roster has resulted in the adoption of […]

WPP’s GroupM MENA’s former head of digital now is Experience Services Lead for Accenture Interactive in the Middle East. With nearly two decades of industry experience in the US and the Middle East, TJ Lightwala was officially appointed Experience Services Lead for Accenture Interactive in the Middle East. For seven years, Lightwala was leading regional […]

Group Partnership, a WPP company, said that they have won back the DEWA creative services account following a five-way pitch. According to the company, they will be mainly be responsible for working on the marketing and communication strategy as well as developing all creative campaigns for the entity. In addition, they said that they have […]

He turned an average-sized plastic manufacturing company into a marketing services giant with a market value of $20 billion. After 33 years of service, he left WPP in the midst of controversy, and within a month formed S4 Capital, providing digital marketing solutions to a broad array of clients. At age 74, executive chairman Sir […]

GroupM, WPP’s named, Ravi Rao, CEO at GroupM Middle East North Africa (MENA), the group said in a statement. He replaces Filip Jabbour, who was appointed in 2015 when GroupM launched in the region and has taken the decision to step down. “Clients increasingly require services beyond media planning and buying, and I’m looking forward […]

In November 2018, WPP announced that it is merging J. Walter Thompson with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson. The merger saw Wunderman global CEO Mel Edwards becomes global CEO of the combined agency, with JWT global CEO Tamara Ingram becoming chairman of Wunderman Thompson. Now, it has revealed what the brand stands for: a “creative, […]

In the latest in a wave of changes at the world’s largest holding company, WPP is merging J. Walter Thompson with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson. The news of the change comes two months after WPP announced the merger of legacy shop Y&R with VML. WPP’s new CEO Mark Read announced the news in a […]

Concluding a high-stakes global creative agency review that started in April this year, Ford has hired BBDO as its lead global brand creative agency. It will still keep WPP for significant pieces of the business, including media planning and buying, shopper marketing and CRM. WPP will also retain Ford’s multicultural and so-called “tier 2” dealer […]

WPP is officially merging Y&R and VML. VML global chief executive officer Jon Cook will lead the new agency, which will be called by an alphabet soup of letters: VMLY&R. WPP says the shop will be a “contemporary, fully integrated digital and creative offering to clients on a global scale.” David Sable, former global CEO […]

BPG Group celebrated its recent rebrand and renewed business restructure at the company’s 25th offsite on the QE2 floating hotel in Dubai. The Group unveiled the new structure in June by replacing BPG Bates, BPG Cohn & Wolfe, BPG Maxus and BPG Possible with two verticals: BPG Max, which will handle media and data just […]

Ford launched its global review in April this year putting incumbent WPP’s Global Team Blue (GTB) under peril, especially at a time when the group deals with naming Martin Sorrell’s successor. Now, a few months later, Ford has tapped Wieden & Kennedy New York for a short-term marketing assignment that comes amid its massive global agency […]

The one executive who has persistently stood out as the likely successor to Martin Sorrell at WPP, Mark Read, is set to officially take the helm. Read is expected to be named as CEO of the world’s largest advertising firm as early as next week, according to multiple company insiders who asked not to be […]

A battle between WPP and Sir Martin Sorrell’s new agency, S4, to acquire Dutch digital production company MediaMonks is turning ugly, with WPP threatening to withdraw share awards from Sorrell’s exit payoff if he goes ahead with the purchase. Speaking at Cannes about the potential competition between WPP and his new agency S4, he called S4 a […]

Wunderman Global CEO Mark Read was thrust into the spotlight in April when WPP announced that CEO Martin Sorrell was stepping down amid an unspecified allegation and that Read and his colleague Andrew Scott would step in as chief operating officers. Read had been floated in past years as a possible successor to WPP’s iconic leader, […]

The review comes at a particularly bad time for WPP, which has been operating without a CEO since Martin Sorrell stepped down earlier this month. Since then, questions about the holding company’s future have swirled. Sorrell was known as being extremely hands-on with WPP’s clients. Though clients have been outwardly quiet about their thoughts on […]

The beginning of April 2018 saw an investigation being launched into advertising legend and WPP chief Martin Sorrell over undisclosed alleged “personal misconduct.” Just a few days later, Sorrell stepped down as CEO and now WPP is on the hunt to fill his shoes. Why WPP is now vulnerable WPP looks vulnerable at the moment […]

Martin Sorrell stepped down as CEO of WPP following an internal investigation into misconduct, ending a 33-year career at the world’s largest agency holding company. The company announced that WPP Chairman Roberto Quarta would take over as executive chairman until a new CEO is appointed. Mark Read, CEO at Wunderman and WPP Digital, and Andrew […]

WPP has confirmed that its board is investigating its CEO, Martin Sorrell, in response to undisclosed alleged “personal misconduct.” “The Board of WPP has appointed independent counsel to conduct an investigation in response to an allegation of personal misconduct against Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer of WPP,” the world’s largest agency holding company said […]

When the world’s largest holding company posts its biggest stock decline in almost two decades and predicts no growth for 2018, there will inevitably be questions over whether the holding company model is irreparably broken. It isn’t. On Thursday’s earnings call, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell said 2017 was “not a pretty year” for the company […]

Five of WPP’s brand consultancies and design agencies, Brand Union, The Partners, Lambie-Nairn, Addison Group and VBAT, are coming together to create a global brand agency. The new, as yet unnamed agency, will have a network of 750 people in over 20 countries, with client billings in excess of $100 million worldwide. Current CEO of […]

Dulsco has appointed a consortium of eight WPP companies, led by J. Walter Thompson, for a complete brand revamp. The more than 80-year-old Dubai based and founded company, with over 12,000 employees that operates across HR Solutions and Waste Management, has set new and aggressive growth targets. The WPP consortium will develop and roll out […]

A year after Johnson & Johnson brought Coca-Cola veteran Alison Lewis in as the first chief marketing officer of its consumer business, things are going well, with sales and share beating rivals from the over-the-counter drug business to skincare. Now, hoping to maintain momentum, she’s opening a whole can of Coke-style globalization on the historically fragmented company and its […]

Born out of the merger between brand activation agency G2, OgilvyAction and JWTAction, WPP activation agency Geometry Global was officially launched across the Middle East and out of Dubai in late May. Nearly four months into the launch, Communicate sat down with Geometry Global’s general manger Nick Walsh, executive creative director, Ben Knight and planning […]

In a bid to keep clients from moving their programmatic operations in house, GroupM, the media agency network under WPP, is building a less constrictive alternative for its programmatic buying arm Xaxis. The alternative is a system in which clients work with whichever ad-tech vendors or data-management platforms they choose – Group M will suggest […]