As Omnicom and Publicis announce a merger that will create the world’s largest marketing and advertising powerhouse, Dominic Mills asks why neither party seems to be able to provide a decent rationale for such a move – and concludes other forces are at work…
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New York’s Pivotal Research Group has cautioned that media owners whose revenue base is skewed towards advertising – and especially those whose advertiser base skews towards large brands – are likely to see negative impacts from the Publicis and Omnicom merger.
The latest ABC figures show that the Daily, Free and Sunday markets were all down overall, both period on period and year on year, with the biggest PoP change belonging to the Sunday Post (5.1%).
As the latest IPA Bellwether survey shows a sharp upward revision in marketing budgets in Q2 2013, Newsline has captured reaction from across the industry, including opinion from adconnection, WAA, Jaywing, MEC and Geometry Global.
In the second of our series looking at the future of Britain, OMD UK’s insights director Chris Worrell explains how, in ‘Creative Britain’, brands need to think quickly and nimbly – because if they don’t, a tech empowered, entrepreneurial minded public will build a product that meets their needs themselves.
The newspaper and magazine industry has today set out plans for a new press regulator despite the ongoing Government impasse.
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‘Dumb Ways to Die’ might have won five Grand Prix prizes at Cannes, but it’s a joke, argues Dominic Mills. A nice piece of work, of course – but public safety ads are a lot easier to do than solving the major marketing challenges for the serious clients who look to Cannes for the inspiration to really shift attitudes and products.