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The US Department of Justice has now contacted three of the top four advertising holding companies about its investigation into alleged rigging of production quotes according to the companies themselves: Omnicom (two subsidiaries), Publicis Groupe and Interpublic, which we knew ...

DDB is finally looking interesting after years of playing second fiddle to Omnicom’s biggest network BBDO. Aside from its stand-out UK performer adam&eveDDB (which may be morphing into an international brand, it’s opening in the US to handle Samsung) the ...

Anyone want to hire a CEO, CSO, CCO and something or other to do with media? These people, with a fairish track record at Adam&eveDDB – by any standards the UK’s (and, possibly, the world’s) most successful agency of the ...

Yes it’s true: the name of Omnicom’s new agency, set up to handle McDonald’s in the US (and elsewhere it no doubt hopes) is We Are Unlimited. Which raises the question: why are agencies so rotten at branding themselves? We ...

Adam&eveDDB is taking the first step towards becoming a new global agency within Omnicom by opening a New York office. The agency has won Samsung in North America (a few weeks ago we tipped it to win Samsung in Europe, ...

Holding company politics are always diverting, unless you happen to be on the wrong end of them. Campaign reports today that AMV BBDO creative directors Anthony Nelson and Mike Sutherland – authors of the Currys PC World ‘Spare The Act’ ...

Finally data is emerging that should put the fear of God into adland and the the UK a whole. Omnicom UK (below) managed organic growth of five per cent in Q3. Deduct the currency bounce as the money is converted ...

The post-Brexit vote fall in the pound must be worrying in the extreme for employees of the big foreign-owned marcoms companies – that’s all of them apart from from WPP. It might not be very good for the shareholders in ...

Omnicom media agency M2M recently lost founding client Estée Lauder to sister agency Manning Gottlieb OMD (OMD is Omnicom’s biggest media agency in the UK ahead of PHD) and now, maybe, we can see the reason behind this odd move. ...