Tag Archives: omnicom

As MDC Partners Stagwell was more famous for spending money than making it but now Stagwell, which includes MDC alongside CEO Mark Penn’s other tech-based businesses, is seemingly making it too. Stagwell is forecasting around $500m of EBITDA profit (profit ...

Is this the “first digital advertising recession?” Michael Nathanson from media consultancy MoffettNathanson thinks so, saying “We are living through the first digital advertising recession, the likes of which we’ve never seen before.” Readers with long memories may recall the ...

Omnicom has beaten rival Publicis Groupe to the punch, being the first of the big ad holding companies to report Q2 2022 results. And we bet they wish the rest of the year looks likes this. Revenue may be flat ...

I see that Campaign is launching “Campaign for creativity” (subscription required), timed for the Cannes Lions presumably. “We are for creativity” the magazine says, flagging “a shared commitment by our journalists around the world to champion creativity and hold the ...

Omnicom grew strongly in the first quarter of 2022 with organic growth up 11.9%, ahead of rival Publicis with 10.5%. But operating profits were hammered by the war in Ukraine, falling 24.5% to $112.4m with net revenue down 0.5% to ...

Omnicom followed rival Publicis with a strong bounce-back in 2021: In Q4 worldwide revenue was up 2.6% to $3.85bn and organic revenue grew 9.5%. For the full year organic revenue was up by 10.2% (roughly the same as Publicis) and ...

Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here by Stuart Smith. As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s ...

Omnicom’s top media exec Daryl Simm is in the box seat to succeed long-serving John Wren as boss of the ad holding company. The US-based Omnicom, once famous for its trio of big creative agencies – BBDO, DDB and TBWA ...

Omnicom has answered the challenge laid down by holding company rival Publicis with an 11.5% rise in organic revenue in Q3 2021 to $3.4bn. Publicis reported 11.2% although its comparatives were tougher. Omnicom only inched forwards in terms of revenue ...