Everything-PR's Communications Holding Company Reputation Index 2026 measures how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, Dentsu, Havas, and S4 Capital. Omnicom owns scale. Publicis owns reputation.
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.
Everything-PR Research: the cumulative public record of executive compensation across the PR, communications, and marketing services industry — compiled exclusively from regulatory filings, with every figure linked to its primary source.
The Omnicom-IPG merger put an estimated $1.35 billion in annual U.S. federal communications work under one holding company — Army recruitment, FDA tobacco prevention, Navy/Marines, CDC messaging. The concentration analysis no trade publication reported as a standalone story.
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.
In 2011, Michael W. Kempner closed a management-led buyout of MWW Group from Interpublic Group (IPG)—ten years after the original sale. The move re-established MWW as one of the largest independent public relations agencies in the United States. This article details the buyout and its long-term impact.
The decade-long arc of Omnicom Public Relations Group — from the 2016 Van Bergen integration to the 2025 IPG acquisition and 2026 portfolio restructuring.
The Hollywood PR firm that launched in 1950 with Paul Newman, Cary Grant, and Rita Hayworth dissolved in November 2025. Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies absorbed the survivors.
The 102-year-old PR brand is being folded into Golin under Matt Neale. Omnicom's post-IPG cleanup is rewriting the industry map.
