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***Omnicom and Interpublic have followed Publicis Groupe into the lists with their half-year numbers: Interpublic (given its legacy issues) seems OK, Omnicom growing by about two per cent may be deemed slightly worrying. Omnicom may be falling behind in the ...

Havas chairman Vincent Bollore is planning to promote elder son Yannick (left) to replace him when he steps down later this year. He has also promoted younger son Cyrille to be his deputy at family-owned Bollore Group, which holds the ...

Only a fifth of all the brands out there make a meaningful difference to our lives according to new research from Havas – and most people would happily do without 70 per cent of them (over 90 per cent of ...

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 ...

Scam ads are turning into an epidemic – or maybe we’re just noticing them after the JWT India Ford Figo fiasco. Now agency Arnold Worldwide is in the mire over a thoroughly weird mental health type ad for McDonald’s that ...

BETC London has had a strong start in life as the first outpost of Paris-based BETC with good work for (by definition) new clients Cow & Gate and Diet Coke and now it’s landed the global Bacardi account. Bacardi tends ...

We’re in the middle of our ads of the year extravaganza (Paul Simons and Giles Keeble in the bag, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and me still to come) but there’s no doubt what the movement of the year ...

Havas increased its revenues by 11 per cent in the third quarter of this year to $546m but organic growth was down to the same disappointing levels of about two per cent reported by rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe; more ...

And then there was one. Back in April Havas bought Boulder, Colorado crowd-sourcing agency Victors & Spoils in what looked to some like an audacious bet on the future, to others complete madness. Co-founder Claudia Batten was off to set ...