If you Google PwC and fines you get a pretty long charge list, fines for mis-auditing companies ranging from BT to giants of the construction world. But the (sometimes inexact) bean counters hoovered up £5bn of revenue in 2022 and ...
Read More »Global Diageo media goes to Omnicom’s PHD
Diageo has reportedly given its global media account to Omnicom Media Group’s PHD, another biggie for what was once the holding company’s second-string media agency. The other contenders were Carat and Publicis Media. Diageo is a big spender (a minimum ...
Read More »PHD’s Mike Cooper takes new top role at Omnicom Media
PHD Worldwide CEO Mike Cooper (below), a Brit, has taken a big step up at Omnicom – becoming group CEO of Omnicom Media Group, APAC and EMEA. This is presumably the reward for a stellar period at PHD in which ...
Read More »PHD set to land HSBC in another media coup for Omnicom
Omnicom’s PHD is reported to have won HSBC’s $400m global media account, displacing long-term incumbent WPP’s Mindshare. If so it’s a new headache for acting WPP COOs Mark Read and Andrew Scott, already dealing with numerous reviews including parts of ...
Read More »Cut-price PHD wins back Sainsbury’s media – official
Sainsbury’s has confirmed what everyone knew: viz, that it’s keeping its media account at Omnicom’s PHD which is also set to pick up Argos (which Sainsbury’s now owns) from WPP’s Mindshare. Small earthquake in the supermarket, not many dead then? ...
Read More »All-at-sea Sainsbury’s reverses out of T&P’s m/Six into PHD
Campaign’s Gideon Spanier reckons that Sainsbury’s is reversing its decision to move its amalgamated £115m media account (Sainsbury’s and Argos) into The&Partnership’s m/Six Media and sticking with long-time incumbent PHD. The business moved to m/Six at the start of the ...
Read More »Sainsbury’s rethinks m/SIX media win
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 ...
Read More »Omnicom’s PHD lands £2bn Volkswagen media prize
PHD, for ages the second brand in Omnicom’s media empire to OMD, is beginning to rival its big brother with some important global wins: it’s now added £2bn Volkswagen planning and buying to Unilever’s global communications planning business that it ...
Read More ȣ6bn Unilever global media for Mindshare and PHD
Unilever has concluded its seemingly interminable global media review and, which won’t surprise anyone, it’s much as you were. WPP’s Mindshare has retained the bulk of the business: US and Europe, in the latter it’s added central and eastern Europe, ...
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