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Gideon Spanier
Dec 17, 2024

The $31 billion Omnicom-IPG deal has industrial logic but also many caveats

The biggest beneficiary might not be the two companies involved, but the wider agency sector itself, writes Campaign UK editor-in-chief, Gideon Spanier.

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