Tag Archives: Interpublic

Wunderman Thompson has bagged one of the grandest fromages in the Interpublic media set-up, Caroline Foster Kenny, who’s global president client solutions and executive chairman and CEO of Mediabrands in the UK and Ireland. At Wunderman Thompson she’ll be chief ...

Hard on the heels of good 2019 numbers from Omnicom, US rival Interpublic (IPG) has produced the goods too: organic growth of 3.3 per cent for the year (2.9 per cent in Q4) with profits of $656m compared to 2018’s ...

There’s a new kid on the data-driven block, Interpublic’s Kinesso, a “precision targeting and optimisation” outfit driven by IPG’s Acxion, the data business it bought last year for $2.2bn. This will include Cadreon IPG’s addressable media business. Kinesso’s CEO is ...

As we approach the end of the year it’s time executive departures – often announced over the holiday season when companies hope no-one will be looking – and Interpublic seems to have commenced an early start with changes at the ...

Accenture is closing rapidly on its rivals in marcoms – the big ad holding companies – reporting $8.76bn in revenue from its Communications, Media and Technology practice in fiscal 2019, out of a total revenue of $43.2bn, 8.5 per cent ...

After years of relative stasis the guard is finally changing at the top of the ad holding companies. Interpublic, helmed by Michael Roth since 2005, has appointed Philippe Krakowsky to the newly-created post of COO, a pretty clear sign that ...

Interpublic continues to lead the holding company pack in terms of both organic growth and financials although it slowed a little in the second quarter of 2019. Q2 organic growth was three per cent (4.6 per cent for the half ...

Phil Geier (Philip H. Geier Jr to give him his full title) was chairman and CEO of Interpublic from 1980 to 2000, when he turned Marion Harper’s Interpublic into the biggest ad holding group in the world. He began his ...

It’s becoming a tale of two continents among the big ad holding companies: Interpublic has just announced another stellar set of quarterly results – organic revenue up a whopping 6.4 per cent in Q1 2019 – following on the heels ...