A third of UBM shareholders have voted against plans for executive pay at the firm, making it the latest in a growing list of big firms to suffer backlashes against their remuneration reports.
At the global media company's annual general meeting 36% of shareholders, representing 55.5m shares, voted against the pay deal.
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This compared with 97m votes cast in support of the remuneration report, meaning 48% of shareholders refused to back it.
The company joins a growing number of firms where shareholders have flexed their muscles.
At Pendragon's AGM last week, 67% of shareholders who voted were against the remuneration report.
It was a close run thing at Trinity Mirror where 45.89% voted against the pay deal.
These votes came hot on the heals of Aviva losing the vote, leading to its chief executive resigning.
This, in turn, came shortly after a sizeable chunk of Barclay's owners voting against its remuneration report.
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