Spotted in conversations at Davos: Levy and Roth
No doubt Publicis Groupe chief Maurice Levy and head of Interpublic Michael Roth were discussing snow conditions, or the iniquitous constraints about to be imposed on capital markets by the Volcker...
View ArticleInterpublic’s solution to Lowe London? A Wall of money
Who will put Lowe London out of its misery? The loss of its principal accounts seems an everlasting litany. To Stella Artois, John Lewis and Nokia N-Series should also be added the Beck’s account. All...
View ArticleThe agency kickback scandal you couldn’t make up if you tried
One staple theme yet to make its appearance in our favourite TV soap, Mad Men, is the celebrated agency kickback. No doubt it will in time. But why wait for the soap when you can have the real thing,...
View ArticlePublicis’ sweetheart ad deal with Google turns sour after kickback allegations
When is an agency kickback not a kickback? When it’s a strategic partnership with Google – according to Kurt Unkel, senior vice-president at Publicis Groupe digital arm VivaKi. Google and Vivaki have...
View ArticleWhich agency network group will land the next big deal?
Corporately, the 2010 agency scene has been remarkable in only one respect: the absence of a big, transformative deal. Consolidation, the key underlying trend of the past decade or so, seems to have...
View ArticleOmnicom closes $100m Communispace deal
Silence reigns at Omnicom Towers on its mooted $100m deal with eCRM and insight company Communispace. Which is odd, for two reasons. First, it is the biggest deal engineered by the marketing services...
View ArticleHavas figures that simply don’t add up
Here’s an arithmetical problem for City analysts. Why don’t marketing services group Havas’ splendid Quarter 3 figures actually add up properly? First, a bit of background. Agency holding company...
View ArticleStrong Interpublic financial results swell optimism in global ad recovery
Things really must be getting better in the global advertising economy, the cynical might observe. Interpublic, the world’s fourth-largest and most financially challenged advertising conglomerate, has...
View ArticleLast top 10 Brazilian indie Neogama sells out to Publicis Groupe, not BBH
It seems that months-long negotiations over who will own the controlling stake in fashionable Brazilian agency Neogama BBH (see my earlier post here) are now completed. So says the Brazilian trade...
View ArticleNeogama loses Bradesco, Omo to Interpublic – and 40% of its revenue
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending. One such is the marriage of convenience between Brazilian hotshop Neogama, its micro-network affiliate BBH and Publicis Groupe. Readers of this blog will recall...
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