WPP and Channel 4 bury the hatchet
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Your support makes all the difference.Channel 4 has ended a dispute with its biggest advertiser, WPP, that was costing the state-owned broadcaster up to £5m a week.
The sides agreed a new deal yesterday, meaning that WPP's clients will start advertising again on C4's portfolio of channels. WPP's media-buying arm, Group M, which spends upwards of £250m a year with C4, pulled all its ads from 1 January, after a previous two-year deal ran out.
Relations between C4 and Group M over the price of airtime broke down last month. In a statement, C4 and Group M said: "Negotiations are necessarily long and complex when two major media companies want to agree commercial terms in a complex and fast-moving environment."
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