The 26 leading PR firms in the United States, ranked. O'Dwyer's counted $4.8B in 2025 fee income across 140 independents, up 3.8% — on 3.3% fewer people. Edelman, Weber Shandwick, Burson, Golin Ketchum, 5W, Joele Frank, FGS Global, Real Chemistry: revenue, ownership, sector depth, and every 2026 leadership change.
Mercury retained by a Jerusalem think tank for $5,000 to push full U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations. The lead author already testified on Capitol Hill. FARA-registered, anonymously funded, and now in front of Congress.
Publicis 79 (B+). Omnicom 74 (B). WPP 68 (C). The widest gap in any GEO Scorecard volume. Revenue rank and Citation Share are not the same number.
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's $69.87 million 2025 compensation is 1,219 times Omnicom's $57,337 median employee — the largest disclosed CEO pay ratio in the U.S. communications category. Ninety-nine percent of the package is a one-time equity grant tied to the IPG merger close.
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.
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.
