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Is the tide going out for creative agencies, a sort of tsunami in reverse? Yesterday MDC Partners stock took a powder as CEO Scott Kauffman (below) announced “unacceptable” earnings for the first quarter, a nasty surprise as MDC outperformed its ...

Ad Age reckons Uber is about to appoint MDC Partners’ 72andSunny (left) as its first global creative agency. Uber, which has recently lurched from one disaster to another but that’s not so strange on the West Coast these days, has ...

Consultancy R3 has been rounding up 2017’s account wins and losses to date and, surprisingly perhaps given its widely reported travails, WPP is the clear leader with over 1300 wins amounting to $579m in annualised new business revenue. R3 Principal ...

If you’d suggested a couple of years ago that MDC Partners, which includes Anomaly, 72andSunny, KBS and CP+B, would show a clean pair of heels to its marcoms rivals you’d have been directed to the nearest rehab unit. But, under ...

Missed this one but it’s worth noting all the same: the Swedes are back in town. Boulder, Colorado to be precise. High profile creative Linus Karlsson (below) has joined former Forsman & Bodenfors CEO Erik Sollenberg at the helm of ...

Life’s never dull at Crispin Porter+Bogusky, or, indeed, its owner MDC Partners and now the agency, once the highest profile creative shop in the US, is setting out on a new adventure: appointing Forsman & Bodenfors’ long-serving CEO Erik Sollenberg ...

MDC Partners has moved to avert a fate verging on death – the quoted agency group has liabilities of $2.09bn and assets of just $1.6bn – by agreeing to sell a 15 per cent stake to Goldman Sachs for around ...

I see that Anomaly has been voted Ad Age’s Agency the Year in an ‘A List’ that includes some newbies (for us anyway) as well as better known names including McCann, Wieden+Kennedy, R/GA and BBDO. Anomaly, co-founded in 2004 by ...

Is MDC Partners, the gaggle of creative agencies formed by Miles Nadal, up for sale? Nadal’s successor as CEO Scott Kauffman admitted the year “had not gone as planned” when he announced Q3 figures: revenue up 6.3 per cent to ...