Sunday, 4 August 2013

Case Study: impact on digital advertising of the just announced merger between Publicis and Omnicom

I believe there will not be much impact on digital advertising but definitely there will be still be some consent on how this merge will affect the clients.

As we know before the merge Publicis and Omnicom are like holding company where there are a lot of creative and advertising company under them. There are running independently and might be following some guideline from them.

Example Tribal DDB is one of my agencies, which is under Omnicom. When they present to use they are presenting as Tribal DDB and not Omnicom. Therefore there is a min impact to those clients whether they merge or not. As long they can help the client get what they wanted.

Even they are under Omnicom, from my understanding they don’t work together. Never did I hear they saying, I can ask if my other sister company if they can help you out.

The only thing that might be affecting client is direction from the HQ. Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Bing and other media company might want to come connection with their management from HQ. Building the relationship with them might take up this bigger pie of the advertising and media share out of it.

Let say the HQ pass down instruction that we be spending more money using Google services then Facebook, it might be affect clients who want to advertising their promotion on Facebook too.


Having working with my marketing department together with these agencies, no matter what thing happen they will still stick with them. Even how we complain among ourselves that they don’t get work on time, didn’t get proper files, bad coding, not easier to maintains for website and many more, higher management still stick with it.

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