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Is Publicis (finally) turning the corner or is it still stuck where it was? The French-owned holding company’s results for 2019 show revenue up ten per cent to €11bn and operating margin to to 17.3 per cent (ahead of the ...

“It is ironic that people think our industry is terrible when WPP are in it and a fantastic industry when Accenture are in it” WPP boss Mark Read (below) told a Morgan Stanley conference last month. The quote comes from ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun (below) is arguably the most interesting character among the big ad holding companies head honchos and, fan or not, you have to say that he’s an enthusiastic and skilful communicator. Adweek’s Agency Spy has come ...

When someone tots up the amount of new business won by the holding companies in 2019 – in the guise of ‘research’ no doubt – Publicis Groupe will likely be top with a number of, on the face of it, ...

Publicis UK, which sits on top of Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and the Publicis agency under country manager Annette King, is looking a lot like Ogilvy. King was UK boss of Ogilvy Group before moving to Publicis and now ...

Publicis Groupe’s third quarter 2019 results are a stinker – by the way these things are usually measured. Organic growth fell by 2.7 per cent in Q3, way below expectations and Publicis is forecasting -2.5 per cent for the year. ...

Publicis Groupe has acquired yet another agency, US based and female-led Rauxa, described as a full service marketing agency. In this case that seems to mean direct marketing or maybe CRM. Unusually it will sit within Publicis Media. Publicis CEO ...

Publicis Groupe has retained the Novartis global media account, reckoned to be worth $600m. The Swiss pharma giant was previously handled by Starcom and now Starcom is combining with Publicis’ new data firm Epsilon in an entity called NovartisONE2. WPP, ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun has a problem. His long-awaited ‘Power of One’ transformation is still stuck in the garage it seems, as the French ad holding group reports second quarter organic growth of just 0.1 per cent, missing analysts’ ...