Publics Groupe’s VivaKi digital media operation has joined the agency groups in apparent full retreat from proprietary ad trading, dismantling its 120-strong ad trading unit and despatching them back to individual Publicis agencies. WPP has already moved in the same ...
Read More »Levy gets the deal he’s been looking for with $3.7bn buy of Sapient Nitro owner
Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy (left) has finally pulled of the transformational deal he’s been looking for with a successful $3.7bn bid for tech-cum-agency company Sapient. Sapient Corp, the owner of digital ad agency Sapient Nitro, was valued on Wall ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe perks up as Nestle UK media set to follow Samsung good news
It’s been rather a good week for Publicis Groupe, with Leo Burnett hanging on to its share of the $4bn Samsung creative account and BBH winning a place on the the tech giant’s hotshot roster along with Wieden+Kennedy. Now Campaign ...
Read More »Facebook and Snapchat come under more fire – ‘Big Data’ users like media agencies face a worrying 2014
Will 2014 be the year that so-called ‘Big Data,’ the great, slightly off-white hope for many of the world’s digital media businesses and some agencies, comes under game-changing pressure from privacy campaigners? We’ve had Edward Snowden’s revelations (left) about the ...
Read More »US, France and UK lead real time bidding online media revolution according to new research
Online advertising is still growing rapdily around the world according to research conducted by Econsultancy on behalf of The Rubicon Project, Inc., which operates the advertising industry’s largest independent real-time trading platform for digital advertising. 64 per cent of advertisers ...
Read More »Starcom’s Laura Desmond is a well-paid supporter of online video challenger Tremor
You can gauge the ebullience of equity markets these days from the number of obscure digital media companies with dodgy profit and loss accounts that are confidently seeking an IPO (or listing on the stock exchange as it is more ...
Read More »Will 2013 be the year WPP leaves its holding company competitors behind?
Well it’s already the biggest of a bunch also numbering Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, Interpublic, Aegis/Dentsu and Havas so what’s new about 2013? According to an interesting piece in MediaPost, which has chosen to award WPP a new gong as holding ...
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