Tag Archives: Interpublic

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 ...

Has a big media agency buyer finally found some cojones in dealing with Facebook? Initiative global CEO Mat Baxter has said he’s advising clients to boycott the social media giant following an investigation by the New York Times allegedly showing ...

Embattled WPP CEO Mark Read would doubtless like to know what’s in Michael Roth’s secret sauce at Interpublic. IPG Q3 organic growth was five per cent in the US and six per cent in Europe, way ahead of everyone else, ...

Is more changing of the guard afoot among the holding companies? Campaign reckons that Interpublic CEO Michael Roth (below) has told the board he’s planning to step down (Roth is 72 and due to retire at 75) and notes that ...

Interpublic CEO Michael Roth and his key lieutenants, including Harris Diamond at McCann Worldgroup and Carter Murray at FCB, seem to have discovered a secret sauce that eludes its rivals at WPP, Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. The smallest of the ...

In a sign of how rapidly things are changing in adland Interpublic is buying data business Acxion Marketing Solutions (below), with whom it’s been working since last year, for $2bn after tax allowances. This is the bulk of Acxiom business ...