Tag Archives: omnicom

We’ve noted before that the big marcoms companies, unlike their peers in other industries, just seem to get bigger, greedily snapping up any more-or-less related business assiduously. The pattern still holds, with both WPP and Dentsu acquiring half a dozen ...

We all thought the Sainsbury’s consolidated media account worth £115m – it now owns Argus too – had gone to The&Partnership’s m/SIX media agency with Sainsbury’s moving from Omnicom’s PHD and Argos from WPP’s Mindshare. T&P is 49 per cent ...

WPP reported record revenues in 2016 with £14.4bn ($20bn), an increase of 17.6 per cent from the previous year, and a record profit before tax of £2bn ($2.6bn), up 26.7 per cent. However, CEO Martin Sorrell warned of a slowdown ...

Go-go London independent agency Lucky Generals has finally tied the kot with Omnicom, with the BBDO, DDB and TBWA agency taking a majority stake. Lucky Generals will remain “independent” it seems although it’s being rolled into a new TBWA Group, ...

More Lucky Generals. A while back the agency announced it was in talks with Omnicom, seemingly with a view to setting up a micro-network within the holding company. It still might but more likely, initially at least, is the newish ...

It looks as though London indie agency Lucky Generals is, indeed, plotting something with Omnicom’s TBWA but, according to Campaign, it’s likely to be a challenger network along the lines of TBWA’s 180, which has outposts in Amsterdam and Los ...

Independent London agency Lucky Generals is talking to Omnicom about selling a stake in the agency. The agency announced last year it was trying to build a marcoms group with the first investment sports marketing agency Dark Horses). Co-founder Helen ...

These (elderly) boys, for such they mostly are, never turn off, or so we’re told. So how are they passing the hours between Christmas and the New Year. What’s on their minds? Sir Martin Sorrell – WPP Three issues may ...

WPP has now been dragged into the US Department of Justice’s investigation into alleged “production rigging,” basically illegal ways of ensuring that in-house agency production units win supposedly competitive tenders. Industry sources say it’s being going on for years. What’s ...