Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its…

Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…

The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the intersection of its two targeted growth areas - digital and emerging markets.

WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network.

Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has slashed its full-year growth forecast to 5%, after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in the third quarter, lower than its rivals.

Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), alongside China Broadband Capital (CBC), Redpoint Ventures and WPP Digital.

Sir Martin Sorrell has thrown his support behind the launch of a Sun on Sunday to bolster the weekend newspaper market.

Blyk, the once-groundbreaking mobile ad company that offered young users free mobile services in exchange for getting ads on their devices, has appointed advertising veteran Eric Kip as its new CEO. He replaces Pekka Ala-Pietilä, a co-founder of the company and a former president of Nokia (NYSE: NOK), who will…

“Direct, digital and interactive have resumed their relatively stronger growth rate, when compared to traditional media,” according to the world’s largest ad agency.

WPP Group has launched Xaxis, an in-house data management platform that will allow its media buying agency Group M to provide audience targeting in a more direct way than it has before. The acquisition builds on the growing focus on ad exchanges and buying through agency trading desks, which WPP…

Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products—or at least when people are thinking of buying them. A new survey of of consumers and enterprises in Europe finds that the iPhone is the most-wanted smartphone, handily beating Android, BlackBerry and Nokia (NYSE: NOK)…

A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long Cannes Lions Festival, the annual gathering of ad agency awards shows and networking. In addition to getting in front of agencies in person, AOL hopes…

Surveying the digital M&A landscape a few months ago, WPP Group talked about “some speculative froth” has developing in markets like Brazil, as rival ad holding companies began looking more aggressively at interactive investments. But that doesn’t mean WPP is curtailing its intensive and long-running string of deals: the company…

To Digitas, Razorfish, VivaKi and Publicis Modem, add Rosetta. Publicis, one of the big four global advertising groups, is buying the Princeton, NJ-based interactive marketing consulting firm.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’s a veritable juggernaut when it comes to market cap, and so too, it seems, when it comes to brand value: the company today got named…

Sir Martin Sorrell may not seem like the kind of chap who reads an online magazine about BMXing, bathroom assaults and art socks - but his WPP has bought a minority stake in the culture mag and website Vice.

WPP has a venn diagram representing its two fastest-growing segments - digital and emerging-markets. Now it’s making another acquisition right in the sweet spot.

We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry, but for the record, the influential CEO of WPP has laid it out: “[The iPad’s] not regarded as being the thing that’s going to save us,…

While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…