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Safari Taketh Away (Again); Another Facebook Competitor Rises

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Welcome To The Jungle Safari introduced a new private browsing mode that disables the now-common tactic among news companies of blocking incognito traffic, which they do because readers use private browsing to avoid paywalls. “This will lead to a hard paywall for all readers... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // October 16th, 2019 //
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Holding Company Strategies Diverge On Data And Agency Brands – Or Do They?

The agency holding companies all face the same external struggles – new competition, slowing growth and the need for new skills. But they’re taking different paths to confront these challenges. Traditionally, holding companies followed the same playbook: growth by acquisition to amass the scale that gave them clout across major clients. But the shift to... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // August 13th, 2019 //
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Holding Companies Sharply Reduce SSP Partners; Coke Thirsts For Data

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tax Cuts Top ad agency holding companies are taking a hatchet to their mar tech vendor rosters. Havas consolidated from more than 40 ad tech partners to single digits, with most of the downsizing falling on SSPs, Ronan Shields reports for Adweek. Havas cut... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // June 27th, 2019 //
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Podcast: IPG’s Huge Bet On Acxiom

Interpublic Group’s $2.3 billion purchase of Acxiom Marketing Services in 2018 shook the industry. And it reverberated into 2019 with Publicis Groupe’s follow-up acquisition of Epsilon. This week on the podcast, IPG Chief Data and Technology Officer Arun Kumar comes into the studio for a frank discussion of the deal and the larger trend of... Continue reading »
by Zach Rodgers // May 20th, 2019 //
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Why Holding Companies Are Shedding Non-Core Assets

After stagnant growth in 2017, holding companies are getting rid of assets that aren’t related to their core focus on digital transformation, programmatic, data and technology. Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and WPP have significantly pruned their portfolios this quarter. IPG and Havas, on the other hand, have disposed of smaller and less strategic agencies in the... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // October 22nd, 2018 //
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Agencies Team Up Under 4As To Launch Brand Safety Consortium

Brand safety has become such a hot-button issue for advertisers that competing holding companies and agencies are ditching their territorial natures to fight it together. The 4As said Tuesday it has formed an industry consortium called the Advertiser Protection Bureau (APB), a cross-holding company and agency effort to better share knowledge around brand safety incidents... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // April 10th, 2018 //
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2017: The Year The Holding Companies Fell To Earth

The past year was a tough one for agency holding companies. WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, IPG, Dentsu Aegis Network and Havas posted little to no growth in 2017. The agency business has been in flux for years, but 2017 offered the “perfect storm” of challenges that caused growth to stutter, said Greg Paull, principal analyst... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // December 29th, 2017 //
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WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell Won’t Be Deterred By A Disrupted Market

“There are three big issues: technological disruption, zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and activist investors,” WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell told AdExchanger at the Cannes Lions festival. “The first involves continuous experimentation," he said, and WPP has certainly walked the talk on that front. Under Sorrell's leadership, the company has invested in tech far more aggressively than... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // June 25th, 2017 //
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Holding Company Competitor Accenture Taps Holding Company Agency UM For Media Buying

Accenture, which has crept steadily onto holding company turf in recent years, has tapped Universal McCann, part of IPG, as its global media agency of record. WPP’s MEC was the incumbent. UM will handle cross-channel media buying across all lines of business at Accenture, including its agency brand, Accenture Interactive. Programmatic buys for Accenture will... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // April 20th, 2017 //
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Why Holding Companies Will Struggle To Become The ‘Agency Of The Future’

Times Square was abuzz this week with talk of the elusive “agency of the future.” “Agencies will need to be far more empathic, far nimbler and more agile,” said Paul Gunning, CEO of DDB Chicago, on Tuesday at Advertising Week in New York City. “The holding company getting rid of silos is the foundation of... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // September 28th, 2016 //
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