Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | yesterday
"After record organic growth of 7.1 percent in 2007, Havas has sustained that trend in the first half of 2008. We are now preparing for a more fragile economic environment but our performance, which...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
SURESNES, France, July 25 -- "After record organic growth of 7.1% in 2007, Havas has sustained that trend in the first half of 2008. We are now preparing for a more fragile economic environment but our performance, which exceeded our expectations, leav...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
French ad firms Havas and Publicis Groupe said that automotive and financial companies are paring back their marketing plans.
Influx Insights (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Havas Media Lab has been working hard to produce a thoughtful paper on the world of u ser generated content. It contains some smart thinking on the topic. The big idea - people aren't creating content, they are creating context. 1. People are using professional media as a springboard to create context- they are not creating the context themselves. 2. The value of this context lies in the mass network...
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
After the Second World War the mass media in Europe, America and Australia developed into monopolies. Generally speaking radio and television in Europe became state services and subject to heavy censorship. In the United States a few giant news services and networks emerged. The Hachette and Havas organisation in France took control of many of the small to medium sized newspapers and the conservative...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Spanish ad holding company Havas recently created a digital media R&D division called Havas Media Lab , headed by our London-based friend Umair Haque . Now the Lab has come out with a provocative white paper, titled: The Economics of Consumption: User Generated Context . The full PDF paper is here (PDF link). Its hypothesis: media companies and investors have been focusing on the wrong usage of UGC:...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Umair Haque, the new-media theorist who writes the Bubblegeneration blog and recently launched the Havas Media Lab, has a great take on the phenomenon of “user-generated content” and how it hasn’t really measured up to what many proponents — both outside the traditional media and inside it — were hoping for and/or expecting. In the [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation. Here is his 'Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution .'
The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The management of Durham-based McKinney, the Triangle's largest advertising agency, has bought back the company from French conglomerate Havas, the two companies announced Thursday.
NewsObserver.com - Business (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Managers of the Durham-based advertising agency McKinney announced today that they have bought the agency from Havas Advertising.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
SURESNES, France, June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Havas and McKinney announced today that McKinney's management has acquired 100% interest in the agency from Havas. "We've enjoyed a very cordial and autonomous working relationship with Havas and are proud of the contributions we have delivered to them," said Brad W. Brinegar, McKinney chairman and CEO. "But we have long wished to be able to compete...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Havas Chairman Vincent Bollore said he expects the global credit crunch to hit advertising budgets.
Gerd Leonhard's Blog on The Future of Music, Media (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Great stuff from Umair Haque (Havas Media Lab) A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque. High-lights: Hypercapitalism causes a food bubble Markets, networks, and communities can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Parents are supporting the Government's intended plans to change whether parents are told if their child is obese, but want the plans to go even further than those currently proposed. In a study of Child Obesity to be launched next week by Havas media agency MPG, 9-in-10 parents (89%) believe the government should actively tell parents if their child is obese.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Media Planning Group (MPG) India, the media arm of Havas Media, one of the largest communication groups globally, has launched Active
