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Aldi in the UK has abandoned Interpublic’s UM after 17 years and moved the business to Publicis’ Starcom, on a winning streak with seven new accounts this year including Fiat owner Stellantis. Aldi says: “We would like to take this ...

Starcom has capped a stellar 2021 for Publicis Media in the US by winning McDonald’s from Omnicom’s OMD. OMD has lost McDonald’s $1.6bn national media planning and buying to Starcom after nearly 20 years although it keeps some business including ...

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 ...