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When UTA announced its surprise acquisition of London-based Curtis Brown Group last month, it was heralded as an aggressive and strategic move into the UK talent space, causing the industry on both sides of the pond to sit up and take notice. U.S. agencies have been canvassing UK companies for a…

UPDATE, JAN 11, 3:29 PM: Less than a week after his departure from UTA was made public, Seth Oster's new landing spot has now been revealed. Exiting the agency at the end of the month, the partner and Global Chief Communications Officer will be taking up the newly created post of chief corporate affairs officer at the…

Fresh off some deft Wall Street moves earlier this month, UTA is now scaling up fast with the acquisition of strategic advisory firm MediaLink. Already a player in branding and marketing circles with its in-house UTA Marketing and UTA Brand Studio divisions, the uber agency has purchased the Michael Kassan founded…

Maybe Jeremy Zimmer and Ari Emanuel need to take it to the octagon. "I thought about it, and I think it makes sense to me that he would not want to, cause we don't fit the profile of the kind of companies he buys," the UTA CEO said Thursday at the Adweek conference about Ari Emanuel's lack of interest in buying the…

UTA this week became the first of the major agencies and one of the first entertainment companies to reopen its offices after 15 months, inviting back agents and support staff that have been vaccinated against Covid. The offices re-opened yesterday, this coming two weeks after the agency opened its new offices in…

UPDATE: Other agencies say they either didn’t cut salaries or reinstated cut salaries earlier. EARLIER: Good news and bad news today at UTA. Agency chief Jeremy Zimmer sent an internal email to employees notifying them that UTA is the first major agency to reinstate full pay for employees. Everyone there took paycheck…

When you are in the midst of a pandemic that for two and one-half months shut Hollywood and led to waves of layoffs and furloughs as agencies and studios try to stay afloat in a coronavirus pandemic that cost over 100,000 American lives, you might think things couldn’t get worse. Yet, who can remember seeing anything…

UTA has just informed its employees there will be “temporary furloughs” that are needed in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The number is high, I’m told, and will mainly impact assistants, but isn’t entirely limited to that. Employees impacted by this will lose their paychecks in a couple of weeks and the intention…

UTA on Wednesday said it has made a significant investment in the powerhouse sports agency Klutch Sports Group, led by its founder and CEO Rich Paul, a move that among other things will create UTA Sports and bring Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis into the agency fold. As part of the partnership…

"Like how I dodge the whole ATA issue?" UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer joked Wednesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference after the pitched battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the lucrative practice of packaging was brought up. Lamenting that he was probably driving his communications staff…

UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer told his writer-clients Wednesday night that they won't be the only artists affected if the WGA gets its way and puts the agencies out of the packaging business. “These decisions impact a broad section of the TV ecosystem," he wrote on Tuesday in a message to the agency's writers. "Lots of people…

Less than a day before the Writers Guild of American and the Association of Talent Agents are set to have their first formal meeting in nearly a month, and two weeks before a big Code of Conduct vote that could see scribes exiting their agencies in droves, UTA’s Jeremy Zimmer has admitted to clients that “we aren’t…