Tag Archives: omnicom

Adweek reports that troubled FMCG giant Johnson & Johnson (it’s facing a barrage of health-related lawsuits among other issues) is slashing its ad budget after setting up a new structure involving bespoke units from Omnicom and WPP. J&J used to ...

PHD Worldwide CEO Mike Cooper (below), a Brit, has taken a big step up at Omnicom – becoming group CEO of Omnicom Media Group, APAC and EMEA. This is presumably the reward for a stellar period at PHD in which ...

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 ...

Adweek’s Agency Spy reports that Omnicom’s We Are Unlimited, the agency formed to wrest McDonald’s creative away from Publicis’ Leo Burnett in the US, is now pursuing other business too. This is believed to follow the end of a two-year ...

When Wendy Clark left Coca-Cola for DDB she probably expected a more topsy turvy life and she’s certainly found it. First up DDB won McDonald’s with its new We Are Unlimited offer – also involving other bits and pieces from ...

Here’s another shot across the big agency boys’ bows from Canada’s Strategy awards, this time it’s Digital Agency of the Year Rethink mimicking The Big Short by betting against the shares of the big ad holding companies. Buying them in ...

Omnicom has reported steady Q3 2018 performance with organic revenue growth of 2.9 per cent although most of this has come from Europe and Asia with US organic growth inching ahead by just 0.6 per cent. There was a small ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

Omnicom’s BBDO has won the Ford creative account with Wieden+Kennedy, which is handling Ford’s fall ad campaign, retained as a roster partner (which should keep BBDO on its toes). WPP, which has handled Ford for decades through JWT and Ogilvy ...