By Stephen Foster on January 2, 2013
Well it’s already the biggest of a bunch also numbering Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, Interpublic, Aegis/Dentsu and Havas so what’s new about 2013? According to an interesting piece in MediaPost, which has chosen to award WPP a new gong as holding company of 2012, the difference between WPP and its competitors is its various proprietary systems [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis/dentsu, groupm, Interpublic, kantar, Media, mediapost, nielsen, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP, xaxis
By Stephen Foster on November 8, 2012
Media industry veteran Jack Klues (left), long-time boss of Publicis Groupe’s VivaKi media operation, is to retire at the end of the year. CFO Frank Voris is taking over with Rishad Tobaccowala as chief strategy and innovation officer (the media man presumably). At the same Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice has announced that Vivaki will become [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Frank Voris, Jack Klues, Maurice Levy, online ad exchanges, publicis groupe, Rishad Tobaccowala, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP
By Stuart Smith on July 13, 2012
Cynics might say that £3.2bn – cash – is an awful lot to pay for digital competence and a superior market rating. And they have a point. Would Dentsu ever had planned such an audacious and costly coup as the acquisition of Aegis Group had the Japanese advertising group earlier succeeded in its seemingly knock-out [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, dentsu, groupm, Interpublic, Jerry Buhlmann, publicis groupe, Tadashi Ishii, takeover, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2012
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy told his company’s AGM that he was confident that Publicis Groupe would continue to outperform the market in the second half of 2012 despite the financial carnage in the Eurozone (with Spain now heading for the knacker’s yard) and clients trimming budgets accordingly. He also produced this interesting take on [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged ayyer, bcom3, bloomberg, dentsu, digitas, founder, havas, Interpublic, leo burnett, m&c saatchi, macmanus, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Maurice Levy, omnicom, publicis groupe, razorfish, saatchi & saatchi, shareholder returns, starcom, vivaki, WPP
By Staff on May 1, 2012
The big marcoms groups have been defying gravity recently with their financial results, all of them growing way ahead of growth rates in Western economies where most of their business is still based. So the various big bosses have been doing well with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell awarded a £13m ($20m) pot (although some of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, Jack Klues, Jean-Yves Naouri, John Wren, kevin roberts, Maurice Levy, mccann worldgroup, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, omnicom, pay rises, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
The Brits and the French spent much of the 18th century vying for control of India (the Brits won, of course) and the two old adversaries seem to be busily engaged in another contest to the death on the sub-continent, this time in all things digital with respective national marcoms flagships WPP and Publicis Groupe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aig, brandedge, digital marketing, digitas, hsbc, India, indigo, infosys, kantar, leo burnett, mysupermarket, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, tata, thomas cook, Vikas Tandon, vivaki, WPP
By Staff on April 13, 2012
Curt Hecht (pictured), a 20-year veteran at Publicis Groupe and currently CEO of its 300-strong VivaKi Nerve Center in Paris, is leaving to join cable channel The Weather Channel as chief global revenue officer, in charge of TWC’s digital marketing and sales. Prior to moving to VivaKi Hecht was chief digital officer of Starcom where, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged 24/7 real media, cable channel, carat, Curt Hecht, David Kenny, dg, digitas, general motors, mediamind, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, starcom, the weather channel, vivaki, WPP, Zenith Optimedia
By Stephen Foster on March 26, 2012
it was only a matter of time before Miles Nadals’ ambitious marcoms group MDC Partners tackled the world of media planning and buying in a serious way and it has taken the plunge by buying a majority stake in US media independentTarget Cast, managed by founders Steve Farella and Audrey Siegel. TargetCast claims billings of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, Audrey Siegel, crispin porter, expedia, group, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, pfizer, publicis groupe, Steve Farella, targetcast, us media independent, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2012
Publicis Groupe and France Telecom’s Orange have advanced their plans to set up a big new tech and new media venture capital fund by teaming up with Iris Capital Management in a deal with sees PG and FT taking a 24.5 per cent stake each in Paris-based Iris. PG and Orange will contribute €150m to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged europe, france, france telecom, iris capital management, Maurice Levy, new media, op, op ventures global, orange, publicis groupe, seed capital, silicon valley, technology, venture capital, vivaki
By Stuart Smith on January 12, 2012
It’s difficult not to feel a smidgen of sympathy for General Motors whirlwind marketing supremo, Joel Ewanick (pictured). Clearly he’s bitten off more than even he can chew with a stupendous $5bn global creative advertising and media planning/buying review. Five months into the review, reaching a decision is causing him sleepless nights. Or so he [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, big fuel, buy option, chevrolet, general motors media review, Joel Ewanick, Laura Lang, publicis groupe, social media, vivaki
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