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The leader in the great round of mainly US media and creative reviews suddenly looks like Omnicom with WPP, hitherto a strong performer, a surprise loser. US telecoms giant AT&T, the country’s second biggest advertiser with a spend of nearly ...

Healthcare marketing is a closed book to most of us although we probably know a doctor or two who attends ‘meetings’ somewhere nice and warm, paid for by a big pharma company. In terms of ads it’s famously high margin ...

By Ciesco. IPG set the pace in Q1 but it was Publicis who surprised the market with above expected growth. Interpublic Group’s reported revenue increased 3.9% to $1.7bn. As with full year 2015 results, IPG enjoyed the highest organic growth ...

Omnicom CEO John Wren (below) took a pay cut last year, only $500,000 admittedly with his total ‘compensation’ dropping to $23.6m (£14.2m). His base salary is $1m, with the rest coming more or less equally from performance-related pay and stock ...

Will we end up with the world’s big media accounts being handled by just two entities: WPP’s GroupM and Omnicom’s OMG? Publicis Groupe, Interpublic (in the US), Dentsu/Aegis and others would violently disagree but that’s the way it seems to ...

Corporate finance advisory firm Ciesco has produced its review of the full year results from the big four marcoms companies – WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and Interpublic (IPG). IPG seems to be the narrow winner in a year of mixed ...

Here’s a bit of interesting kite-flying: Adweek’s estimable Noreen O’Leary has unearthed a French analyst note from January speculating that Publicis Groupe might be on someone’s takeover menu. The most likely predators are said to be Omnicom, which tried to ...

It would be surprising if Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy didn’t know that most of the company’s North American Procter & Gamble media business was lost when he announced the reorganisation into four ‘hubs’ last week, including Publicis Media headed ...

Omnicom has signalled a more aggressive acquisition policy and kicked things off by buying Grupo ABC, reportedly the biggest independent agency in Brazil with some other offices scattered around the world. Grupo ABC was founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes ...