7 posts and columns on Publicis Groupe

With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray

in Media on November 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT

What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.
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Potential Yahoo CEO David Kenny Now Much More Available

in News on October 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

Akamai president David Kenny has stepped down after a year on the job — and in the midst of Yahoo’s CEO search, where his name has come up as a possible Carol Bartz replacement.
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Exclusive: HuffPo’s Eric Hippeau Stepping Down From Yahoo Board as Akamai’s David Kenny Steps In

in News on February 4, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT

Eric Hippeau, longtime Yahoo board member and one of its earliest investors, will be stepping down as a director, according to sources close to the situation. In a related move, sources said Akamai President David Kenny will be joining the board of the Internet giant.

Exclusive: BermanBraun Strikes Big Ad Deal with Starcom

in News on August 17, 2010 at 5:57 pm PT

In an interesting move for premium online content, Hollywood’s BermanBraun has signed an advertising deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, the media agency unit of advertising giant Publicis Groupe, sources said. As part of the deal, Starcom gets a “first look” at all of the online properties created by the innovative production company headed by Lloyd Braun (pictured here) and Gail Berman. BermanBraun produces both digital and mainstream content.

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Razorfish-Publicis: And the Digital Walls Come Tumbling Down

in News on August 10, 2009 at 3:30 pm PT

The prevailing wisdom has been that the important word in ‘digital advertising agency’ wasn’t the advertising as much as it was the digital. Technology was king. That has all changed, as seen in two deals in the past week.

Microsoft Tries to Sell Ad Agency It Never Wanted

in Media on June 28, 2009 at 8:16 pm PT

Microsoft acquired digital ad agency Razorfish two years ago as part of its $6 billion purchase of parent company aQuantive. The industry has been waiting for Redmond to part ways with the ad shop since then. Now it’s formally on the block: Microsoft has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley to broker a deal.
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Your Daily Dose of Dour: WPP, Publicis Cut Ad Predictions

in Media on December 8, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Good morning. Long week ahead, so let’s keep this short and sweet: At least two giant ad agencies are predicting lousy results for the coming year, for all the obvious reasons. Best-case scenario is that they’re overestimating the damage, and next year’s media layoffs won’t be quite as bad as they could be. Worst-case…