Media AM - Global Radio, PHD, Sir Martin Sorrell, the7stars, Cannes round-up

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19th June 2014

Global Radio rolls out digital music buying point Global Radio has partnered with digital music platforms including Spotify to launch a single buying point for UK digital audio campaigns. PHD chief extols outstanding Cannes week Winning two Gold Lions with its all-Lego ad break for the 'Lego Movie' has contributed to an "outstanding" week at Cannes for Mike Cooper, PHD's global chief executive. Sorrell warns rivals: 'Don't climb the backstairs of the Carlton in Cannes' Sir Martin Sorrell, the founder and chief executive of WPP, revelled in the collapse of the proposed $35 billion Publicis Omnicom Group in Cannes this week. The7stars lands £10m Scottish Power media Scottish Power has appointed the7stars to its £10 million media account after a competitive pitch that began more than a year ago. Building brands in the digital age: 8 highlights from Wednesday at Cannes Campaign and its sister titles are covering Cannes Lions 2014 on our 24-hour international blog, Campaign@Cannes. As the World Cup shows, you don't have to root in the archives for TV gold Do you remember the glory days of television, when advertisers could reach more than 15 million people in just one sitting? Well, those days are far from over, if World Cup trends play out as hoped. Data meets creativity in the Lions' den Steve Henry and Oliver Rees showed a Cannes audience how incredible things can happen when data and creativity come together. In ad agencies, grey hairs are something to cherish Perhaps it's a paradox that an industry that is sometimes so obsessed with slavishly chasing the young and the new and the unproven quite rightly still remembers, honours and venerates the old, the established and, more crucially, the departed. But it's also a relief. UK wins only one Radio Lions award Only one of the two UK agencies nominated for a Radio Lion at this year's Cannes festival has walked away with an award. Sheryl Sandberg on equality, bossy girls and Mark Zuckerberg's 30th Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg believes that gender equality in the work place remains decades away, she told an audience at the Cannes Lions Festival. Agencies weak at communicating with clients, says survey Agencies need to shake off their stupid and dated internal ways, according to a survey conducted by USA Today and independent agency RPA. Instagram for sale Trying to commercialise a social media network is always a tricky business, but news that Instagram is rolling out advertising across its photo-sharing service has captured the imagination of UK brands and agencies. Latest blogs Heading the elephants off at the pass I attended a conference this week where the thorny topic of ad blocking received significant airtime. And no wonder, given what we heard. What's in a name? Why Techmedia is now Purch Antoine Boulin, president, media at Purch, explains the reasoning behind the group's recent rebranding. Don't interrupt: publish The priorities of brands and agencies are changing in a content-driven world, says Tim Hipperson, the former chief executive of G2 Joshua and ZenithOptimedia. Why performance delivery means so much more in today's media environment It's time to redefine performance delivery, says AdConnection's chief executive, Catherine Becker. Re-imagining print media A major new study predicts how media will change through to 2020, and why.

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