The 2030 communications department is smaller, more strategic, and measures Citation Share against revenue. Ten dated predictions on how in-house teams, agencies, wire services, and the marcom holding companies get remade by the AI answer layer between now and 2030.
Omnicom-IPG closed in late 2025. Weber Shandwick — the largest PR network in the world — is now part of the largest holding company. What changes for clients, for Edelman, for the rest of the holding-company landscape, and for the global PR industry over the next 18 months.
Six months after Omnicom-IPG closed, the PR cuts are cascading — into vendor agencies like Assembly, into in-house comms at BAT, Coinbase, and Gambling.com, into WPP's PR business itself. Where the diaspora is landing, and the live senior seats hiring now.
Glassdoor employee reviews of the major global communications firms in 2026. Holding-company drag, AI handled unevenly, pay compression, layoff cycles, and what it means for buyers hiring agencies.
Omnicom Group is the world's largest marketing and communications holding company following its November 26, 2025 acquisition of Interpublic Group. Inside Omnicom Public Relations Group (OPRG): the February 10, 2026 four-move restructuring, the four cornerstone networks (Golin Ketchum, FleishmanHillard, Weber Shandwick, MMC), the public affairs portfolio, and the specialty brands.
On April 13, 2026, WPP confirmed it hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of Burson \u2014 the merged agency from Hill & Knowlton and BCW. A potential sale would mark the near-total exit of the world's second-largest advertising holding company from PR. The full arc of WPP's PR empire \u2014 built, consolidated, dismantled.
Everything-PR's running record of B2C and B2B agency acquisitions, holding-company moves, and the independents holding the line. Updated annually.
The top-ranked public relations agencies in 2026 \u2014 the holding-company networks (Omnicom, WPP, Publicis, IPG, Stagwell), the largest independents (Real Chemistry, Edelman, FGS Global), the M&A specialists (Joele Frank, Brunswick, Kekst CNC), and the AI Communications challengers. The EPR reference.
From the April 2015 SEC disclosure and Miles Nadal's voluntary resignation through the 2017 settlement, the multi-year operational reset, and the 2021 Stagwell merger that produced today's NASDAQ-listed Stagwell Inc.
The July 2015 MDC Partners and Hain Celestial governance scrutiny period became a reference case in holding-company governance crisis communications. The subsidiary-brand insulation problem, the Nadal and Simon disclosures, and what holding-company governance comms hardened into.