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Creativity, content and media – the next era

06 December 2018

Agency brands take another hit as ICF consolidates global business under ICF Next banner

04 December 2018

‘The peanut has now morphed into a coconut, and is ripening': MightyHive joins S4 Capital

04 December 2018

Quad/Graphics to buy Periscope agency for $132.5m

27 November 2018

Forrester snaps up Sirius Decisions in $245m deal

27 November 2018

Wunderman chief Mel Edwards on JWT merger: 'It's not a takeover'

26 November 2018

Australian research companies Fiftyfive5 and GalKal to form wider consulting business

21 November 2018

EY acquires Adelphi Digital in Singapore and Australia to boost digital capabilities

16 November 2018

Tug acquires content marketing agency Fourteen Digital

12 November 2018

Accenture Interactive acquires third German agency Kolle Rebbe

02 November 2018

The Drum Network

Th_nk acquired by Epam: why agency bosses sold up when it wasn't in the plan

01 November 2018

Preparing your agency exit strategy

30 October 2018

IBM acquires Red Hat for record-breaking $34bn to close the gap in cloud computing

29 October 2018

Grey Group takes majority stakes in Autumn Worldwide to expand into India

29 October 2018

VLG Marketing acquires Burner Rocket to increase account-based selling

27 October 2018

WPP consolidation continues as US health units merge into VMLY&R, Ogilvy and Wunderman

24 October 2018

Communisis board accepts £154m acquisition bid by OSG Group

23 October 2018

Publicis Groupe turbocharges Publicis.Sapient with Xebia France merger

22 October 2018

Online marketplace eBay acquires Motors.co.uk to take on AutoTrader

20 October 2018

Sprint sells mobile ad firm Pinsight Media to InMobi

17 October 2018

WPP and Dentsu most active in marcoms M&A as the consultancies hit the brakes

15 October 2018

Why Wunderman will be WPP’s jewel in the crown under new regime

12 October 2018

The Drum Network

Ceuta Group acquires search marketing agency Click Consult

05 October 2018

What’s in Sorrell’s playbook with S4 Capital?

03 October 2018

'Go with Sorrell': Mediamonks' Victor Knaap on the biggest business decision of his life

02 October 2018

Dentsu acquires Branded, organisers of YouTube FanFest and All That Matters

02 October 2018

IPG completes $2bn acquisition of Acxiom

01 October 2018

Jellyfish acquires The ASO Co as it doubles down on app space

01 October 2018

The Drum Network

Ayima Group acquires digital analytics agency LeapThree

25 September 2018

Wunderman grabs majority stake in Dutch Salesforce specialists Emark

24 September 2018

Apple closes $400m deal on Shazam, looks to remove ads from music recognition app

24 September 2018

'Parallel journeys' – why Comcast bid over the odds for Sky

24 September 2018

IHeartMedia looks to bounce back from bankruptcy protection with purchase of podcaster Stuff...

13 September 2018

Jun Group acquired by Advantage Solutions to refine firm’s retail solutions

10 September 2018

The Economist sells CQ Roll Call to Fiscalnote, becomes shareholder in poli-tech firm

Clemenger buys digital transformation agency Levo Digital