Tag Archives: omnicom

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 ...

What happens to the staff when there’s no growth among the agency-based holding companies? There is some growth, of course, as we’ve reported extensively in covering the Q3 results from WPP, Omnicom, Publcis Groupe and Interpublic. But not enough to ...

Interpublic (IPG) appears to be outstripping US rival Omnicom, judging by the two companies’ Q3 results. Omnicom Group’s worldwide revenue dropped by 1.1 per cent to $3.7 billion in the third quarter of 2015, compared with the same period last ...

Omnicom is upping the ante in the production wars by bringing its in-house production units into a new operation eg+ worldwide. Eg+ was formed by the merger of New York’s E-Graphics and Hub Plus last year. Omnicom cals the new ...

Boutique corporate advisory firm Ciesco has produced its summary of the big four holding companies’ first half 2015 results and the outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. While all of them grew in the first half of ...