New business reviews bounced back globally in 2021, increasing by 53.5% on the back of major creative and media reviews from clients including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Mercedes-Benz. According to new business data from independent marketing consultancy, R3. Growth was strongest ...
Read More »R3: global new business down ten per cent in H1 2020 – WPP tops, Droga5 scores for Accenture
The holding companies might be losing as much as 23% of their revenue year-on-year (Omnicom), but new business has remained relatively resilient through 2020. In the first half of 2020, according to independent marketing consultancy R3, total new business revenue ...
Read More »Global M&A slows as China falls while holding companies stay on the sidelines
Global mergers and acquisitions activity in adland slowed markedly in 2019 according to new figures from consultancy R3 Worldwide. R3 clocked 489 deals worth a total $27.7bn in 2019, down 15 per cent on the previous year. North America was ...
Read More »New figures from Results International and R3 point to holding company retreat from deals
The agency holding companies are in full retreat in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) stakes according to new figures from Results international and marketing consultancy R3. According to Results, while Publicis did the biggest deal in the first half of ...
Read More »US drives creative and media new business growth in 2018 – Publicis leads holding companies
Global new business inched ahead in 2018 according to new research from consultancy R3. Based on an analysis of 7,000 wins in all sectors new business revenue increased 7.5 per cent in 2018 compared to 2017, up from $2.9bn to ...
Read More »R3: MarTech deals drive M&A up 144 per cent in 2018 – agency holding companies sidelined
It was a big year for MarTech and data acquisitions, according to independent consulting firm, R3, in their analysis of 465 M&A deals in the marketing services industry. The $33bn of M&A activity marked a 144 per cent increase in ...
Read More »R3: big creative reviews drive new business upsurge – Saatchi US is top performer
A surge in creative reviews has resulted in a 36 per cent increase in global new business activity in the first half of 2018, according to a new report by independent consulting firm R3. According to R3 creative new business ...
Read More »R3: new buyers outstrip ad holding companies in booming M&A market
Global agency and marketing services deals were up by 88 per cent by value in the first half of 2018, according to new research by marketing consultancy R3. This was largely driven by new buyers (including consultancies) to the sector ...
Read More »New R3 figures show consultancies heading marketing M&A
They do say them thar tectonic plates in adland are shifting and the latest M&A global table from global marketing consultancy R3 shows just that with two big consultancies, Accenture and Capgemini, leading the way with the biggest deals – ...
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