 Richard Eyre |
Next Fifteen Communications Group reported a 1.1 percent dip in PR revenues to $173.2.2M for the 12-month period ended Jan. 31, a year of restructuring that featured the merger of tech firms Text100 and Bite to form Archetype.
The UK-based firm's PR (brand marketing) group, which includes Archetype, Outcast, M Booth, Blueshirt and Publitek, showed a 0.1 percent uptick in organic growth.
Operating profit rose 7.7 percent to $38.4M.
Next 15's overall US business grew 1.7 percent to $150.7.9M and 2.8 percent organically. Operating profit dipped 5.1 percent to $22M.
Chairman Richard Eyre said "great progress" was made in the fiscal year as Next 15 "evolved from a pure PR group into a data and technology-driven marketing group."
He sees more change ahead as "the industry continues to evolve and as our customers wrestle with the impact technology is having on their own business models."
S&P Global has reaffirmed its negative “BBB” rating on WPP due to ongoing challenges that it will face during the next 12 months.
Stagwell’s Q4 revenues grew two percent to $807M while adjusted EBITDA rose three percent to $129M.
WPP CEO Cindy Rose unveiled “Elevate 28,” a strategic plan to simplify the troubled company, which reported a 5.4 percent drop in 2025 revenues to $13.6B.
Omnicom CEO John Wren reported a Q4 $977.2M operating loss, largely due to the $1.1B in severance and repositioning expenses connected to the $13B Interpublic takeover that closed on Nov. 26.
Publicis Groupe reports an 8.8 percent rise in 2025 net revenues to $16.4B with
