Interpublic quietly outperformed rival marketing majors in terms of organic growth for the second consecutive quarter. Net revenues for 1Q came in at $1.77bn, an organic lift of 3.6%. IPG's US metric

The bulk of creative is split between Interpublic's McCann and FCB, and WPP's JWT and Ogilvy, though a number of other agencies also work on individual brands. WPP also has sole charge of media and production,

break-up could in turn provoke splits at Omnicom and Interpublic. Interestingly, Sorrell's contract with WPP not only provides no notice period upon termination, but also reportedly contains no no-compete

Chevrolet started life in 2012 as a partnership between Interpublic's McCann and Omnicom's Goodby Silverstein. That lasted a year before McCann took full control of the project. Separately, P&G has asked

Media is already consolidated at Interpublic with dedicated agency J3, and J&J has now persuaded Omnicom and WPP to follow suit with the creation of two new specialised entities. Omnicom's is named Velocity,

Interpublic +3.3%, MDC +3.3%, Dentsu 2.8%, Publicis +2.2%, Omnicom +1.6%, WPP revenues +1.2%, WPP net ex pass-throughs -1.3%, Havas -2.1%. For the year, MDC +7.0%, Omnicom +3.0%, Interpublic +1.8%, Publicis

So far, Interpublic leads for the quarter, followed by Publicis, Omnicom and Dentsu. The Y&R brand is being consigned to history in South Africa after several years of weak performance. The last remaining

In the news this past week: Agencies Interpublic reported a strong close to 2017, with organic growth of 3.3%. That was considerably better than the two previous flat quarters, raising the full year

planning and buying putting incumbent Carat up against Interpublic's UM and Initiative networks, from whom the business was poached three years ago. DAN is already defending reviews of global Adidas and

What's going on at Interpublic's The Martin Agency? Almost two weeks ago, the agency's chief creative officer Joe Alexander departed suddenly as a result of what were subsequently reported to be allegations