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Another Agency Reorg: MDC Media Partners Centralizes Its Programmatic, Search And Social Talent

MDC Partners is the latest holding company to place its programmatic, search and social talent into a team that spans across its media network, MDC Media Partners. The group, which doesn’t have a name, was announced internally on Thursday and contains roughly 100 experts across biddable media and digital planning from agencies Assembly, Unique Influence... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // November 14th, 2019 //
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Agency Data Platforms Fall Short On Creative, Confuse Clients

Agency holding companies have spent $12 billion on data assets over the past five years but have yet to successfully deploy those assets at their creative agencies, according to a Forrester report released Monday. “It’s still very much a media proposition,” said Jay Pattisall, Forrester analyst and author of the report. “[Creative] seems to be... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // September 25th, 2019 //
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GDPR Threatens RTB; MDC Launches Agency Network

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Illegitimate Interest? European regulators are circling real-time bidding companies, claiming the online ad framework violates GDPR by passing sensitive information through bid requests without explicit consent. Regulators in the United Kingdom and Ireland are investigating RTB, and Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and Poland have... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // July 10th, 2019 //
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Mark Penn Named CEO Of MDC Partners

Embattled holding company MDC Partners has a new owner. The Stagwell Group, a new-model agency holding company helmed by former Microsoft chief strategy officer and political advisor Mark Penn, said Friday it will invest $100 million to take a 30% minority stake in MDC Partners. Penn will become CEO and sit on MDC’s board. The... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // March 15th, 2019 //
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FTC Looks To Change; MDC Explores A Sale

Cold Shower For Market Power Big tech, are your ears burning? On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission held the second in an ongoing series of hearings digging into competition and consumer protection issues. The FTC is trying to update its enforcement and policy agenda in the face of fast-paced technological change. “Technology is no longer... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // September 24th, 2018 //
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CEO Exit Caps A Terrible Few Years At MDC

MDC CEO and Chairman Scott Kauffman will step down from the holding company. Kauffman will remain CEO and retain his board seat until the company finds a replacement, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news Wednesday. But MDC has been in decline for a while. It lost half its stock value... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // September 13th, 2018 //
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Amazon Is Top Programmatic Spender; Google's Got Influencer Game

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hey, Big Spender Amazon may be raking in billions from its ad business, but it’s also spending a ton on programmatic advertising. The ecommerce giant was the biggest programmatic spender during the first quarter of this year, according to a report from MediaRadar. Amazon... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // August 3rd, 2018 //
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Cannes 2018: At MDC Partners, Autonomy Is The Key To Success

MDC Partners CEO Scott Kauffman runs his agency network a bit differently than his peers. While the agency founders’ culture has come under fire recently by some, Kauffman, who has been CEO at MDC since 2015, actively facilitates it. MDC takes a majority stake in agencies and lets its entrepreneurs drive their own growth rather... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // June 18th, 2018 //
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Paul Dolan Joins Varick As First-Ever CEO To Lead Shift In Business Model

Varick Media Management said Wednesday that former Xaxis executive Paul Dolan will join the company as its first-ever CEO. Varick, launched in 2008 as one of the first agency trading desks, has always had a president reporting into to senior leadership at parent company MDC Partners. Now with its first CEO, Varick is establishing a... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // May 30th, 2018 //
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On The CES 2018 Show Floor, The Technology Is Always Listening

  GroupM Chairman Irwin Gotlieb has always had an intuitive eye for technology. He’s been applying it to the CES show floor since the 1970s, when it was called the Comdex computer expo show and disc drives sold for $400,000. Gotlieb began offering his knowledge to clients, vendors and other partners on his legendary floor... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // January 12th, 2018 //
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