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By Stuart Smith on April 16, 2013
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon them whether they like it or not. Superficially, membership statistics for the Institute of Practitioners [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged age, Bob Willott, david jones, havas, holding companies, Interpublic, ipa, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Then there were three? There are four big marcoms holding companies (if you exclude Dentsu which is still 90 per cent Japan as it waits for clearance from China to buy Aegis): WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and interpublic (IPG). Late last year all the chatter was that Publicis Groupe had made an informal approach for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, IPG, Jim Edwards, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, omnicom, publicis groupe, takeover, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 29, 2012
Oreo, now owned by Mondelez, has added Interpublic’s The Martin Agency to its roster to handle US creative business. Which is a bit of a surprise as we all thought it was headed to Wieden+Kennedy Portland following that agency’s appointment to handle next year’s Super Bowl campaign. It can’t be a case of Super Bowl [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged draftfcb, John Campbell, Kraft, Michael Roth, mondelez, oreo, scali mccabe sloves, the martin agency, wieden+kennedy portland
By Stuart Smith on November 14, 2012
Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that is, except senior Interpublic management. Brien (left) is a dynamic, no-nonsense, deal-cutter, inured to the ways of media-buying, but the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged AOL, commonwealth, exxon, Frank Mergenthaler, golin harris, goodby silverstein & partners, grey, Gustavo Martinez, Harris Diamond, hsbc, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, JWT, L'Oreal, Laurence Boschetto, Luca Lindner, lufthansa, Marion Harper, mccann, mediabrands, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, octagon, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2012
Who, you may say? While it’s no surprise that Nick Brien has been turfed as CEO of McCann after a string of account losses, it is a surprise that he’s been replaced by Harris Diamond (left), a PR man from New York. Diamond, a lawyer by training, headed Interpublic’s CMG unit which includes PR and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged cmg, Harris Diamond, Interpublic, lobbying, Maurice Levy, mccann, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, PR, publicis groupe
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2012
The rumour mill says he is, on account of his supposedly less than fulsome references to either in recent analyst calls. Back in March my colleague Stuart Smith reported that Nick Brien, head of McCann Worldgroup, would be on his bike following a ruckus with big client L’Oreal which declined McCann’s invitation to be lumped [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged draftfcb, Interpublic, IPG, Laurence Boschetto, mccann, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, oreos, sc johnson, super bowl ad
By Staff on October 10, 2012
Interpublic CEO Michael Roth might have turned the company around in financial terms but his big agency brands (headed by McCann, DraftFCB and Lowe) are struggling big time. Now Johnson & Johnson, which spends about $2.7bn globally including $2bn in the US, is reported to be dropping IPG creative agencies Lowe, Deutsch and The Martin [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged band-aid, bbdo, ddb, Interpublic, IPG, johnson & johnson, JWT, Michael Roth, omnicom, tylenol, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 25, 2012
Some Wall Street types think Interpublic, the alleged subject of a $6bn bid from Publicis Groupe a few weeks ago (denied by both parties, more energetically by PG) is still in play. Forbes reports that CEO Michael Roth (left) has wrung a startling profits rise out of the company even though its revenue has hardly [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged aegis, dentsu, draftfcb, Interpublic, John Wren, Maurice Levy, mccann, Michael Roth, omnicom, publicis groupe
By Stephen Foster on August 9, 2012
Those old protagonists Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe and Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP are trading blows in the unlikely environs of The Drum, a British advertising magazine that once used to concern itself with the ad business in places like Manchester and Newcastle, not Mayfair and the Champs-Elysees. On Monday SMS told the Drum [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Interpublic, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, the drum, WPP
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