Holding companies and ownership groups that own and operate global public relations agencies — Publicis, Omnicom, IPG, WPP, Stagwell, Havas, Dentsu, Hakuhodo, MDC, PROI, ACC, New Mountain Capital, CVC, KKR, and others. Distinct from the operating PR firms themselves.
Everything-PR Research: John Wren, Philippe Krakowsky, Arthur Sadoun, Mark Penn, Cindy Rose, Yannick Bolloré and Martin Sorrell. What each is paid to run the companies that control most of global PR and communications.
John Wren was paid $69.87 million by Omnicom Group in 2025 — more than triple his 2024 package. Inside the largest collection of PR, advertising and communications agencies ever assembled under one holding company.
Arthur Sadoun — Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe since June 1, 2017, the third leader in the Groupe's 100-year history. Career from TBWA/Paris to Publicis Conseil to Worldwide to Communications to the top job. CoreAI, Marcel, Epsilon, Sapient, Lotame, LiveRamp. Governance combined 2024. €11.7M retention through 2027. Twenty straight quarters of outperformance.
Publicis Groupe — founded 1926, led by Arthur Sadoun, one of the major global communications holding companies. The map: Sapient, Epsilon, Influential, the agency brands (Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, MSL, Kekst CNC, BBH), the India build, and the 2026 holding-company landscape after the Omnicom-IPG merger.