Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Accenture Ends Its Audits Beginning in August 2020, Accenture will no longer provide services around media auditing, benchmarking and agency pitches, Seb Joseph reports for Digiday. In ending its auditing services, Accenture will no longer face a conflict with its media buying services. Writes […]
Publicis Groupe’s organic growth rate was stagnant in the third quarter (up only 0.2%, a decrease from 0.7% growth in the same period last year), due to economic uncertainties related to the US election, Brexit and the surge of media reviews in 2015. Revenue for Q3 was 2.32 billion euros (or about $2.5 billion), down […]
Agencies may come under tougher scrutiny soon as a result of an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) report due out this month. The report on agency rebate practices is the result of a monthslong investigation by K2 Intelligence and Ebiquity and is likely to bring into focus how advertisers conduct audits of their agency partners. […]
