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  • Publicis Media restructures organisation

    Publicis Media restructures organisation

    MUMBAI   Publicis Media CEO Steve King has unveiled structure and leadership appointments for the organization. “We are driven to get to the future first,” said King. “Publicis Media is a fresh opportunity to simplify our organisation, invent more modern approaches to gain efficiency, introduce structures for greater collaboration and effectiveness, and drive new levels of scale and client value.”

    “The new Publicis Media imagined by Steve King is fully equipped to fit the future and best serve our clients,” Publicis Groupe chairman and CEO Maurice Lévy endorsed, “A leaner and simpler structure will bring more value to our clients and will further accelerate our growth.”

    Publicis Media’s structure will cover Top 20 markets, organised by three regions and led by Regional CEO for the Americas Tim Jones, Regional CEO for EMEA Iain Jacob, and Regional CEO for APAC, Gerry Boyle.

    At a global management level, Adrian Sayliss will become CFO for Publicis Media, Séverine Charbon will become the Chief Talent Officer for Publicis Media, and John Sheehy will oversee Global Clients for Publicis Media.

    Publicis Media will consolidate its six global agency brands: Starcom, Mediavest, Spark, Zenith, Optimedia and Blue 449 into four global agency brands namely Starcom, Zenith, Mediavest | Spark and Optimedia | Blue 449. Starcom and Zenith will each continue to operate as global agency brands while Mediavest | Spark will be a third large global agency brand and Optimedia | Blue 449 will be brought together to form a powerful global challenger brand.

    Each agency will be led by a Global Brand President with Lisa Donohue as Global Brand President for Starcom, Vittorio Bonori as Global Brand President for Zenith, Brian Terkelsen as Global Brand President for Mediavest | Spark, and Andras Vigh as Global Brand President for Optimedia | Blue 449. These

    Global Brand Presidents will be responsible for leading clients, driving growth and enabling best work.

    Additionally, there will be four US CEOs with Chris Boothe becoming CEO of Mediavest | Spark,

    Dave Ehlers of Optimedia | Blue 449, Lou Rossi continuing at Zenith and Lisa Donohue continuing as US CEO for Starcom until a successor is named. All US brand leadership will report into Tim Jones, CEO of Americas.

    Dave Penski will become Chief Investment Officer for Publicis Media in the U.S. overseeing all media investment and media vendor partnerships. He reports to Jones. Publicis Media’s U.S. consolidated investment power, estimated at $39 Billion and 33% market share, makes Publicis Media the largest media buying entity in the U.S., according to RECMA’s most recent Overall Activity Ranking Report.

    Powering Publicis Media will  be seven centralised ‘Global Practices’ that standardise approaches, scale quickly and deliver connectivity, consistency, that span geography, agency brands and clients.

    These Global Practices will be:

    •     Data, Technology & Innovation led by Stephan Beringer

    •     Content led by Belinda Rowe

    •     Trading & Buying led by Simon Pardon

    •     Performance led by Michael Kahn

    •     Business Development & Communications led by Lauren Hanrahan

    •     Business Transformation led by Richard Hartell

    •     Analytics, Research & Insight led by Steve Simpson

    In this new model, the agency network names of Starcom Mediavest Group and ZenithOptimedia Group are retired to better enable a flatter organisational structure. Publicis Media will deliver client value through combined scale and capabilities of our media agency brands.

    VivaKi capabilities will be fully integrated into Publicis Media’s Global Practice model. Performics will remain Publicis Media’s global performance marketing brand and scale across all agency brands.

    The reorganisation of Publicis Groupe’s media capabilities into a Publicis Media hub is part of Publicis Groupe’s transformation efforts previously announced. Publicis Groupe is organised into four Solutions hubs—Publicis Communications led by Arthur Sadoun, Publicis Media led by Steve King, Publicis.Sapient led by Alan Herrick and Publicis Health led by Nick Colucci—which are connected through a Chief Revenue Officer organization, led by Laura Desmond, which will deliver client satisfaction across Publicis Groupe’s entire range of services.

  • Publicis Media restructures organisation

    Publicis Media restructures organisation

    MUMBAI   Publicis Media CEO Steve King has unveiled structure and leadership appointments for the organization. “We are driven to get to the future first,” said King. “Publicis Media is a fresh opportunity to simplify our organisation, invent more modern approaches to gain efficiency, introduce structures for greater collaboration and effectiveness, and drive new levels of scale and client value.”

    “The new Publicis Media imagined by Steve King is fully equipped to fit the future and best serve our clients,” Publicis Groupe chairman and CEO Maurice Lévy endorsed, “A leaner and simpler structure will bring more value to our clients and will further accelerate our growth.”

    Publicis Media’s structure will cover Top 20 markets, organised by three regions and led by Regional CEO for the Americas Tim Jones, Regional CEO for EMEA Iain Jacob, and Regional CEO for APAC, Gerry Boyle.

    At a global management level, Adrian Sayliss will become CFO for Publicis Media, Séverine Charbon will become the Chief Talent Officer for Publicis Media, and John Sheehy will oversee Global Clients for Publicis Media.

    Publicis Media will consolidate its six global agency brands: Starcom, Mediavest, Spark, Zenith, Optimedia and Blue 449 into four global agency brands namely Starcom, Zenith, Mediavest | Spark and Optimedia | Blue 449. Starcom and Zenith will each continue to operate as global agency brands while Mediavest | Spark will be a third large global agency brand and Optimedia | Blue 449 will be brought together to form a powerful global challenger brand.

    Each agency will be led by a Global Brand President with Lisa Donohue as Global Brand President for Starcom, Vittorio Bonori as Global Brand President for Zenith, Brian Terkelsen as Global Brand President for Mediavest | Spark, and Andras Vigh as Global Brand President for Optimedia | Blue 449. These

    Global Brand Presidents will be responsible for leading clients, driving growth and enabling best work.

    Additionally, there will be four US CEOs with Chris Boothe becoming CEO of Mediavest | Spark,

    Dave Ehlers of Optimedia | Blue 449, Lou Rossi continuing at Zenith and Lisa Donohue continuing as US CEO for Starcom until a successor is named. All US brand leadership will report into Tim Jones, CEO of Americas.

    Dave Penski will become Chief Investment Officer for Publicis Media in the U.S. overseeing all media investment and media vendor partnerships. He reports to Jones. Publicis Media’s U.S. consolidated investment power, estimated at $39 Billion and 33% market share, makes Publicis Media the largest media buying entity in the U.S., according to RECMA’s most recent Overall Activity Ranking Report.

    Powering Publicis Media will  be seven centralised ‘Global Practices’ that standardise approaches, scale quickly and deliver connectivity, consistency, that span geography, agency brands and clients.

    These Global Practices will be:

    •     Data, Technology & Innovation led by Stephan Beringer

    •     Content led by Belinda Rowe

    •     Trading & Buying led by Simon Pardon

    •     Performance led by Michael Kahn

    •     Business Development & Communications led by Lauren Hanrahan

    •     Business Transformation led by Richard Hartell

    •     Analytics, Research & Insight led by Steve Simpson

    In this new model, the agency network names of Starcom Mediavest Group and ZenithOptimedia Group are retired to better enable a flatter organisational structure. Publicis Media will deliver client value through combined scale and capabilities of our media agency brands.

    VivaKi capabilities will be fully integrated into Publicis Media’s Global Practice model. Performics will remain Publicis Media’s global performance marketing brand and scale across all agency brands.

    The reorganisation of Publicis Groupe’s media capabilities into a Publicis Media hub is part of Publicis Groupe’s transformation efforts previously announced. Publicis Groupe is organised into four Solutions hubs—Publicis Communications led by Arthur Sadoun, Publicis Media led by Steve King, Publicis.Sapient led by Alan Herrick and Publicis Health led by Nick Colucci—which are connected through a Chief Revenue Officer organization, led by Laura Desmond, which will deliver client satisfaction across Publicis Groupe’s entire range of services.

  • ‘Bang Bang’ continues to rule at the BO

    ‘Bang Bang’ continues to rule at the BO

    MUMBAI: Though fairly well promoted, Sonali Cable fails to draw enough footfalls and opens to very poor response. Coming as it does during the dullest period of the year, pre-Diwali, and lacking face value showed on the public response. The film has remained limited to less than the four million mark for the opening weekend which is disastrous.

    Mumbai 125KM, a horror film with poor promotion facing dull release period, is a loser. The film has just about managed to reach the one crore mark for its first three days.

    Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami has managed to scrap together Rs 1.55 crore in its first week. Tamanchey manages to cross a crore mark with Rs 1.25 crore to show for its first week. The other two releases of the week, Jigariya and Spark, were lost without a trace.

    Bang Bang has collected Rs 21.3 crore in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 136.6 crore.

    Haider has managed to collect Rs 10.3 crore in its second week mainly on support at multiplexes to take its two week total to Rs 45.45 crore.

     

  • ‘Bang Bang’ continues to thrill the BO

    ‘Bang Bang’ continues to thrill the BO

    MUMBAI: The week saw four small-time films release in Spark, EkkeesTopon KI Salaami, Jigariya and Tamanchey. None had the face value, or could draw crowd. Also, each film catered a regional subject with scant identification for universal audience.

     

    Of the lot, EkkeesTopon KI Salaami had the best prospects and was a sincere attempt; however, it lost out balancing itself between a satire and a melodrama.
    Bang Bang opened to good houses as expected. However, the reports about its mediocre content caught up with it and the collections started dropping in a free fall. The fall which started a day after release got more pronounced as the new week began. The film, which had collected Rs 80 crore for its first five days (having opened on Thursday) managed to end its eight day week with Rs 115.3 crore.

     

    Haider has met with an indifferent response with only a few caring to talk about it. A pretentious film with a script penned on whim and fancy, it fails to identify with any sort of audience. It is as unreal as a cinema can get. The film continued to collect on the lower side of average throughout the week despite holidays to end its eight day week with Rs 35.15 crore.

     

    Daawat-e-Ishq has added just Rs 10 lakh in its third week taking its three week total to Rs 25.66 crore.

     

    Khoobsurat has added Rs 70 lakh in its third week to take its three week total to Rs 24.65 crore.

     

  • MIPCOM 2014: Spark, Astro Malaysia & Moving Visuals join hands to launch Spark Asia

    MIPCOM 2014: Spark, Astro Malaysia & Moving Visuals join hands to launch Spark Asia

    CANNES: Spark, Astro Malaysia and Moving Visuals International (MVI) have signed a joint venture to set-up Asia’s first dedicated HD factual and documentary channel, Spark Asia.

     

    The JV was signed on the first day of MIPCOM 2014.

     

    The channel, which will go live in the first half of 2015, will offer a wide variety of exclusive Asian and global HD content. In addition, Spark Asia will empower the local community of producers and filmmakers by offering an alternative platform to showcase their documentaries and through various training initiatives.

     

    Leveraging on the strengths of its joint venture partners, the new channel will have both linear TV and digital content that will resonate among audiences across Asia. Spark Asia will promote knowledge; celebrate Asian values and traditions and bring Asia to the world in an exciting way. The content will include genres like science & technology, exploration, history, environment, nature and wildlife. The channel will also draw its programming from the vast library of Autentic and ZDF Enterprises.

     

    Asia is the latest launch of the factual entertainment brand Spark, which is also available in Eastern Europe as well as in Africa.

     

    Astro Malaysia CEO Rohana Rozhan said, “As one of Southeast Asia’s leading content and consumer companies, Astro is always exploring new ways to meet the audiences’ changing preferences. With the growing interest in Asian content, there is a huge opportunity in Asian factual content that resonates not only with audiences in Asia but around the world. In line with our strength in the creation of IPs and content brands we believe that the aggregation of Asian-centric stories and factual content in an Asian branded documentary channel is timely and has tremendous potential. This joint venture with like-minded partners enables Astro to take a stake in content that will resonate in Asia and around the world.”

     

    MVI director Galen Yeo added, “As the world’s most populous continent, Asia has long deserved a channel to harness its thriving diversity of culture, history, people and stories. We are pleased to work together with Spark GmbH and Astro on this landmark venture to promote Asian documentary filmmaking, and provide producers a unique platform that will support and promote their work to audiences all across Asia. Spark Asia welcomes opportunities to collaborate and work together with storytellers from around Asia and the world.”

     

    Spark GmbH CEO Patrick Hoerl said, “Being close to our viewers’ lives and hearts has always been at the core of the Spark brand. We can only deliver on that promise, if we team up with the best experts in our business in each region we operate in. It’s hard to think of better partners than Astro and Moving Visuals for a truly Asian channel.”