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WPP Merges Agency Built for Dell

Enfatico, Designed to Prevent Marketing Turf Wars, Will Be Folded Into Y&R By SUZANNE VRANICA WPP is folding Enfatico, the agency it built as a one-stop shop for all of Dell’s advertising and marketing business, into its Young & Rubicam Brands ad firm, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is a retreat [...]

Publicis promotes silver lining in crisis

While other company bosses are mired in gloom, Maurice Lévy appears to relish the prospect of a sharp downturn engulfing his industry.  “It’s the type of situation that excites my neurons,” said the chief executive of Publicis, the world’s fourth-largest advertising group, in an interview with the Financial Times … more

With Big Buy, Microsoft Joins Online-Ad Flurry

Microsoft Corp.’s $6 billion deal to buy an online-ad specialist called aQuantive Inc. puts into high gear a race between Madison Avenue and a new guard of technology businesses that are trying to dominate the unbridled market in brokering Internet advertisements …more