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Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here by Stuart Smith. As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s ...

Sylvie Ouziel has joined Publicis Groupe as its first “leader of Shared Platforms,” which might mean everything or not as much as it sounds. The clearly high-powered Ouziel (below) joins from Singapore-based tech company Envision Digital. She was also a ...

Leo Burnett London CCO Chaka Sobhani (below) has received a well-earned elevation, to global CCO of the Publicis-owned agency worldwide. Liz Taylor is leaving the Leo Burnett post after just two years. The Publicis Groupe creative agencies in London – ...

Publicis Groupe is launching a new UK scheme to attract ethnic minority and low income talent into what it admits is a pretty middle class industry. The Open Apprenticeship will be an interactive platform offering an entry point for people ...

Publicis Groupe kept its head above water as grim old 2020 came to a close, reporting organic growth in Q4 at -3.9% (better than expectations) and -6.3% for the year. The US, French-based Publicis’ biggest market, was the star in ...

Is the ad business, specifically the big data-obsessed holding companies, sleepwalking into disaster as they try to hoover up information about consumers everywhere? Epsilon, which Publicis Groupe bought for $4.4bn in 2019, has agreed a $150m settlement with the US ...

Is Publicis Groupe up for sale? Seems unlikely but Campaign reckons it’s held talks with private equity – believed to be Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners. CVC has fingers in lots of pies, it controlled Formula 1 until 2016 when it ...

It’s interesting observing Publicis Groupe in the coronavirus crisis: go-go CEO Arthur Sadoun is making quite touchy feely videos weekly to inspire the troops while the number of said troops seems to be reducing rapidly. But thinning the ranks seems ...

The ever-ingenious Arthur Sadoun at Publicis has produced a new wheeze for these straightened times: money back for clients if Publicis doesn’t deliver “guaranteed outcomes” via its new The Pact service for mid-sized clients. Mid-sized being a prety wide definition: ...