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Corporate finance advisory firm Ciesco has produced its review of the full year results from the big four marcoms companies – WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and Interpublic (IPG). IPG seems to be the narrow winner in a year of mixed ...

Yet more violent uprootings of the deck chairs are afoot at Publicis Groupe as its new Publicis Media entity regroups under new boss Steve King, of Zenith fame. According to a report in Campaign, big networks Starcom MediaVest and ZenithOptimedia ...

BBH has won rampant taxi app Uber’s UK advertising business. Uber previously used Creature for some projects. Such has been Uber’s performance in the UK – London particularly – that you might wonder why they need an agency but, every ...

Here’s a bit of interesting kite-flying: Adweek’s estimable Noreen O’Leary has unearthed a French analyst note from January speculating that Publicis Groupe might be on someone’s takeover menu. The most likely predators are said to be Omnicom, which tried to ...

Publicis Groupe has taken another media hit below the waterline in the US, this time losing the $900m Walmart account. Mediavest is the losing individual agency and the surprise move by Walmart (which wasn’t supposed to be one of the ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy (below) pulled a large and very welcome rabbit out of the hat this morning, revealing 2.8 per cent organic growth in the fourth quarter. This confounded expectations – including Publicis’ own forecasts. For the year ...

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy has dismissed reports that biggest client Procter & Gamble is slashing the group’s fees – leading to a round of redundancies – as “pure bullshit.” Speaking at last week’s Davos chat-fest Levy had to acknowledge ...

Tom Bernardin is stepping down as CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide to be replaced by Rich Stoddart (below), currently CEO of Leo B in North America. Stoddart, who joined the agency from Ford in 2005, will keep his North American ...

Publicis Groupe wants to buy 30 per cent of Cheil Worldwide, the once in-house Samsung agency that still handles the bulk of the Korean electronics giant’s $5bn worldwide ad and communications business, according to reports. Samsung currently owns about 25 ...