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Media agency Starcom has decided to tell some ‘Brave Stories’ in a deal with Channel 4, highlighting members of staff and their issues (in this trailer a stammer and someone who’s shy) to emphasise (presumably) the agency’s diversity. clients these ...

As readers in the UK try to locate their post-match befuddled brains, and those in Denmark rue a dodgy penalty, here’s something to exercise the grey matter. Publicis Media’s Starcom has launched the industry’s first “media booking bot” – Abacus. ...

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, ...

A Publicis Groupe combo of Starcom and SapientRazorfish has won Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ media account, said to be the biggest to move in North America this year. Starcom beat incumbent UM and Omnicom’s Hearts & Science to the business. It ...

WPP’s MEC media agency, which is merging with the holding company’s Maxus, has made a big statement of intent by hiring Amanda Richman (left) from Publicis-owned Starcom as its US CEO. Richman, currently president of investment at Starcom US, will ...

Procter & Gamble has called a full review of its £210m UK media acccount which is yet another headache for Publicis Groupe which owns incumbent media agency Starcom. In the US Publicis lost the bulk of P&G’s whopper $2.7bn account ...

Publicis Groupe’s Starcom, which many commentators thought was destined to be the big loser in the current $20bn+ round of media reviews (including, um, us) has come out fighting, adding the $600m or so merged Kraft Heinz North American account ...

At some stage this year we’ll be able to tot up the winners and losers in the media review stakes; there’s over $20bn of media up for review, about half in the US. So far we’ve only had the results ...

The spate of global media reviews is an unfolding nightmare for Publcis Groupe’s media agencies, especially its main US player Starcom Mediavest. With between $20-30bn of global media up for review Starcom is defending all or a slice of many ...