Agencies make big money from lots of under-the-radar things, healthcare marketing being one. A high margin business too (draw your own conclusions.) Publicis Health in the US is being sued by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey for designing and deploying ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe’s Epsilon hit for $150m in data fraud case
Is the ad business, specifically the big data-obsessed holding companies, sleepwalking into disaster as they try to hoover up information about consumers everywhere? Epsilon, which Publicis Groupe bought for $4.4bn in 2019, has agreed a $150m settlement with the US ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe retains $600m Novartis media
Publicis Groupe has retained the Novartis global media account, reckoned to be worth $600m. The Swiss pharma giant was previously handled by Starcom and now Starcom is combining with Publicis’ new data firm Epsilon in an entity called NovartisONE2. WPP, ...
Read More »Publicis promises a bright new data-based dawn as it completes Epsilon acquisition
Everyone’s looking for a silver bullet – or secret sauce – and Publicis reckons it’s found one as it completes the acquisition of US data firm Epsilon for a net $3.95bn. Last year Interpublic bought its own version, Acxiom, for ...
Read More »Publicis at a crossroads as it takes biggest data punt so far with $4.4bn Epsilon
If advertising isn ‘t working you may as well try something else. At the same time as it’s announced a disappointing first quarter of 2019 – with organic growth down (again) by 1.6 per cent – Publicis (below) has confirmed ...
Read More »Publicis mulls bid for $5bn data giant Epsilon
Publicis has confirmed that it is mulling a bid for Alliance Data Systems’ Epsilon marketing unit, valued at around $5bn. Goldman Sachs with private equity outfit Advent is also in the frame. US-based Epsilon uses data to help its clients ...
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