Tag Archives: omnicom

Digital is becoming a bit of an issue for the mighty Omnicom; the marcoms giant’s strategy of embedding digital skills in its its mainstream agencies is being questioned and it has just replaced CEO Marita Scarfi with former Wunderman man ...

Poor David Jones (pictured), the charismatic and youthful CEO of Havas isn’t usually left as the wallflower on the sidelines of the ad business but that’s exactly where he is at the moment. A Dentsu takeover of media buyer Aegis, ...

Aegis CEO Jerry Buhlmann (left) had an interview in the Sunday Times Business News today (there’s no point in providing a link as the Times paywall is a drawbridge) saying, inter alia, that there was no conflct between his giant ...

It looks as though Omnicom’s PHD has won the planning brief for Unilever’s $6bn global media account from WPP’s Mindshare although Mindshare remains the favourite to win the consumer goods giant’s media buying worldwide, having already been re-appointed to handle ...

Winning a big gong at Cannes is only the half it, it would seem. WPP and Omnicom (via DDB) have been lobbing bricks at each other over vote rigging and now Hamburg agency Jung von Matt finds itself in the ...

We’re not going to list the number of Lions every agency or agency group won at Cannes (you’ll be relieved to know) but it is interesting that DDB Worldwide, the third best-performing network at the festival after Ogilvy and BBDO, ...

WPP’s $540m purchase of AKQA seems to have put the (big) cats firmly among the digital pigeons with rumours abounding that Amsterdam-based LBi, slightly bigger than AKQA with $250m revenue and $22m net profit, is also looking for a buyer. ...

DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei (left) is not one to pull his punches: he’s already accused other holding companies (for which read WPP, the winner of the most-awarded holding company gong this year and last) of vote rigging and now ...

Dear oh dear, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s decision to introduce a ‘Holding Company,’ award, for the agency group winning the most Lions, was always bound to end in tears and now it has. The award was introduced last ...