August 1st, 2012

CEO Of BranchOut and Chairman Of Top Ad Agency AKQA Will Drop Knowledge On You At Friday’s Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp

CrunchUp Moves Fast

Facebook moves pretty fast. If you don’t attend the Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp, you could misunderstand it. To give us the lowdown on how well Facebook’s ad business is doing and what it’s like to ride the Facebook traffic roller coaster, we’ve got two big new additions to the day’s panels.

Rick Marini- Founder and CEO of BranchOut, the most popular Facebook-based professional networking… → Read More

June 20th, 2012

WPP Doubles Down On Digital, Buys Leading Agency AKQA At $550M Valuation

akqa campaign

WPP today has announced a major development in its strategy to have 40 percent of its business coming from digital in the next five years: it is buying AKQA, one of the biggest — and independent — digital agencies around. WPP says that AKQA will continue to operate as an independent agency, and its current chairman will also head up a new investment arm, WPP Ventures, to back more digital… → Read More