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More evidence has emerged that the US is the place to be if you’re a marcoms company, with Interpublic benefiting (as has its bigger rival Omnicom) from the strength of the American economy. IPG’s third quarter figures show revenue at ...

It’s an ill wind….when Omnicom and Publicis Groupe aborted their $35bn merger back in the summer it looked likely that both marcoms giants would struggle to regain momentum but that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. While Publicis ...

Irish PR company Drury Porter Novelli paid owner Omnicom a handsome dividend of €1.5m last year, even though umbrella company Drury Communications posted a €1.1m loss – due to €1.5m in ‘exceptional items’ – according to a report in the ...

Ad Age has a piece today on Robert Senior, the new global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi. Senior (left) takes over from Kevin Roberts next January. Which prompted the thought: how come so many alumni of TBWA in the UK ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) may have headed to Greece for his hols but he’s still supplying the world’s media with his opinions. In an interview with Aussie site Mumbrella he suggests that Omnicom had emerged the stronger over Publicis ...

One of the interesting aspects of the Virgin Atlantic pitch was the agency shortlist, drawn up with the help of Creative Brief, a newbie to these circuses (this one took five months). There was RKCR/Y&R, the incumbent, who might have ...

We noted the other day that WPP had borrowed a large slug of money over 30 years at 5.6 per cent (we don’t know how much) and now it emerges that rival Omnicom (left) has renewed a $2.5bn credit facility ...

It’s not that long ago that Omnicom and Publicis Groupe were trying to arrange a $35bn merger. Perhaps it’s just as well they failed because the two giant companies seem to occupying not just different domiciles but different universes. Publicis ...

Five weeks ago we speculated (go on, predicted) that there would be big changes at Omnicom (and at Publicis Groupe) following the failure of the two ad giants’ proposed $35bn merger. The first such has come to pass with Omnicom ...