agency brand took one step closer to extinction with WPP's announcement of the merger of iconic giant J Walter Thompson with Wunderman. The latter network gets top billing in the new entity, which will

MDC 1.5% Publicis 1.3%, Havas 0.3% and WPP -1.5%. Omnicom was awarded the advertising contract for the US Army after a long and fractious review. The ten-year $4bn contract covers all marketing services

WPP confirmed the creative leadership team for the newly merged VMLY&R network. Y&R's global chief creative officer Tony Granger is to retire and North America CCO Leslie Sims is expected to transfer

WPP's numbers are due towards the end of August). The latest figure was down from Q1, bringing the figure for the first half to 3.0% (which was better than Publicis). On a reported basis, revenues rose

WPP's GroupM division was a big winner in media, retaining consolidated duties for UK telecoms giant BT via newly created dedicated unit Team Connect. It also captured all Americas media for the Hertz,

Some welcome good news for WPP. Its Cohn & Wolfe PR agency - now Burson Cohn & Wolfe - was named Global PR Agency of the Year for the first time by The Holmes Report, It had already won Large Agency of

It was another difficult week for WPP's new CEO Mark Read. On Monday, for the first time in more than a decade, the group lost its position as the world's most valuable marketing services group. WPP's

WPP confirmed the merger of the group's global Y&R advertising network into its faster-growing digital satellite VML. Y&R's David Sable moves up to global non-executive chairman, and VML's Jon Cook becomes

like the merger of WPP's MEC and Maxus media agencies to form Wavemaker last year - often encourage clients to reconsider their business. A flood of accounts departed Wavemaker following that merger,

Not the best of weeks for WPP. Four big reviews ended in partial or total losses for the group. First up was GlaxoSmithKline's global media. GroupM handled most of the account worldwide, split between