Sorrell's S4 reports new deals, 51 percent revenue jump

(Reuters) - Martin Sorrell's new era advertising firm S4 Capital <SFOR.L> said on Monday it had secured two major new clients in the run up to Christmas as it reported like-for-like revenue had jumped by half year-to-date to the end of November.

The digital advertising firm, launched earlier this year shortly after Sorrell left WPP <WPP.L>, did not name the clients, which it said were "major global packaged goods companies". It added that gross profit rose more than 44 percent in the year-to-date period.

S4 said its deal to buy San Francisco-based programmatic ad firm MightyHive was completed on Christmas eve and three-year plans and budgets for next year were in the works.

S4 will report results for the year ending Dec. 31 in early March 2019.

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(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; editing by Patrick Graham)