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Omnicom continues to find the going tough with a Q3 revenue drop of 1.9 per cent to $3.79bn but it’s keeping its head above water with profits rising 3.9 per cent to $264m. Omnicom agency brands include BBDO, DDB, TBWA ...

Whether or not something is “Marmite” has entered the language – you love it or hate it – thanks to a campaign from DDB London some years back. Now new incarnation adam&eveDDB has produced one of the stunts of the ...

By Ciesco WPP WPP, the world’s largest marketing group, reported revenue growth of 13.3 per cent to £7.40bn ($9.33bn) for the first half of 2017. However, this was largely due to an 11.4 per cent gain from currency, and a ...

There’s plenty to worry about with Donald Trump in the White House. Foreign affairs aside, we keep hearing that the bosses of the big holding companies are in a state of anguish about the failure of the Trump administration to ...

The “Trump bump” which briefly materialised in the US following the election of himself seems well and truly over and it’s hitting the big marcoms groups. Omnicom’s global revenue dipped two per cent in Q2 2017 despite a strong performance ...

There are all sorts of new beasts padding through the media landscape and one such is MCap, a US-based media investment outfit. It’s just hired Omnicom head of global trading Andy Zonfrillo (left) as global MD which suggests it has ...

What’s happening in North America? Trump, obviously, but the Donald was supposed to boost business including advertising, marketing and media. But WPP’s Q1 2017 results, behind target with like-for-like revenue up 0.2 per cent on the same period in 2016 ...

Interpublic, which owns McCann, FCB and Mediabrands among others – unveiled a solid Q1 2017 with earnings (profit) of $21.5m, an impressive increase on the previous year’s $5.4m. Somehow or other IPG managed to reduce its quarterly costs by 58 ...

We’ve noted before that the big marcoms companies, unlike their peers in other industries, just seem to get bigger, greedily snapping up any more-or-less related business assiduously. The pattern still holds, with both WPP and Dentsu acquiring half a dozen ...