News & Views

I often get asked about the value of making a small acquisition over growing your own talent through recruitment. There are of course merits in both approaches and a lot depends on what you’re trying to achieve, the depth of...

Waypoint Partners advises on the sale of Head London to Zone. Waypoint Partners is delighted to announce that they have advised on the sale of the London-based digital agency, Head London, to Zone: a strategy, technology and content specialist...

Waypoint Partners secures best-fit deal after two years working on growth and sale plans with Snapdragon’s founder. Waypoint Partners has provided M&A support and growth consultancy on a deal between two communications agencies that creates a 55-strong business with...

A report by The Drum on machine learning and artificial intelligence caught our collective eye yesterday at Waypoint Partners. One projection that jumped out is that by 2020 about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created for every single person...

Here’s a question I get asked a lot: is winning a creative or marketing award good for business? There’s plenty to unpick here, and I guess the first thing to say is that an award is never bad for...

Merger and acquisition activity is relatively commonplace in the marcoms sector. Senior management often plan mergers to create larger entities and deliver greater efficiencies. The rationale being that combining two or more companies with complementary skill sets and talented...

Leadership styles are just as unique as the people who employ them. Everybody knows that, but when it comes to leadership styles, it also varies according to the situation the leader is facing. Effective leadership does not mean one...