Tag Archives: omnicom

Omnicom boss John Wren has responded vigorously to the Covid-19 crisis, with anticipated measures sich as layoffs, furloughs and salary cuts. Including some high profile (and presumably expensive) people at its agencies which include BBDO and DDB. Now it’s merging ...

Quite how meaningful first quarter results are from the big ad holding companies is open to debate: Omnicom follows US rival Interpublic with a broadly flat Q1, impacted by the arrival of Coronavirus in March. Worldwide revenue was down 1.8 ...

The ad business still has the capacity to surprise now and then and here’s one: Wendy Clark is quitting as boss of Omnicom’s DDB to be global CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, Jerry Buhlmann’s old job. She’ll report to executive ...

Diageo has reportedly given its global media account to Omnicom Media Group’s PHD, another biggie for what was once the holding company’s second-string media agency. The other contenders were Carat and Publicis Media. Diageo is a big spender (a minimum ...

As we’ve noted before, Sir Martin Sorrell used to say that Omnicom was good at operations but had no strategy, although SMS has been kinder since he quit WPP for S4Capital. No strategy seems to be paying off as the ...

Sir Martin Sorrell used to be fond of saying that big WPP rival Omnicom was a good operator but “had no strategy.” Thanks goodness for that as the US marcoms giant sails (fairly) serenely on, reporting organic growth of 2.2 ...

Much speculation about Disney’s $1bn media review – set to be concluded imminently – particular the somewhat onerous terms and conditions said to be attached to it. Most controversially – and Disney hasn’t confirmed any of this – is the ...

Wieden+Kennedy has been celebrating what is arguably the creative account win of the year, McDonald’s in the US from Omnicom/DDB’s bespoke agency We Are Unlimited. An internal memo secured by Adweek says: “It’s been a nine-month journey that was originally ...

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 ...