Mike Parsons

Omnicom Group Inc. agencies led the top rankings at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year across multiple categories. For the first time ever, both the Titanium and Integrated Grand Prix went to one campaign, Obama for America, a collaboration between OMC’s GMMB, campaign strategist David’s Plouffe’s AKPD Message and Media, and campaign staff. Commenting (…)

Tax preparer H&R Block has shifted its $120 million marketing account to Omnicom Group’s DDB without a review, dealing a blow to the marketer’s creative agency of nine years, Interpublic Group of Cos.’ Campbell-Mithun. Read more.

The agency beat CHI & Partners, Delaney Lund Knox Warren, and Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy to the account. DDB will now take on responsibility for producing an ad campaign informing people of changes to the pension system. Read more

There are those who argue the ad agency is too volatile a business to be publicly held, subject as it is to the whims of clients and creative talent, two of the most finickyand temperamental groups of people you’d ever want to meet. It’s a pretty persuasive argument, right up until you come to the (…)