Tag Archives: Publicom

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 ...

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami (below) where about 100 top execs from Omnicom and Publicis Groupe will convene on October 18 to discuss how they’re going to get on together, ...

I suppose congratulations to WPP are in order after it decided to offer paid internships at its leading London ad agencies and design companies as part of D&AD’s Young Blood initiative. But the truth is that it’s a scandal such ...

Rightly or wrongly there’s been a perception that Omnicom has been a touch sleepy in the media stakes, certainly in comparison to its hyperactive rivals WPP and, in digital media anyway, Publicis Groupe. Now, of course, Publicis Groupe is trying ...

Post PubliCom merger ripples are still being felt all over the place and my spies in the Far East are busy speculating – over the clink of their properly made gin and tonics in the Raffles Hotel – that a ...

Keith Hunt (left) is managing partner of Results International. He argues that the main reason for the $35bn PubliCom merger is to create the technology firepower to fend off Google and Facebook. On Sunday 28th July the structure of the ...

Coca-Cola has been mentioned as one of the clients that might object to the PublicCom merger as it has some business with Publicis Groupe agencies while Omnicom toils on behalf of Pepsi. But the Cokeheads are clever these days, using ...

Over the last week there has been a frenzy of speculation about the proposed merger between Omnicom and Publicis. It probably goes without saying – but I will – that both Mr. Wren and M. Levy will have discussed in ...

The great Publicom merger posts a number of interesting questions for Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP. The first is: WPP’s strategy has always been to be the biggest and now it no longer is – across the piece. So fund ...