Dentsu

Dentsu Group disclosed recently that it recorded a COVID-19-related $1.37 billion impairment charge for full-year 2020 leading to an operating loss for the year of $1.3 billion. Part of the impairment charge was attributed to…

A return to pre-pandemic levels of advertising spend is not expected before 2022, when spending is likely to reach $619bn and grow at a rate of 6.9%, despite a positive start to 2021. The slow path to recovery is set out in Dentsu’s…

Dentsu is merging iProspect and Vizeum to create a new global media agency under the iProspect banner. The merged entity will have 8,000 staffers across 93 markets. According to Dentsu the combination will unite Vizeum’s media…

Dentsu (formerly Dentsu Aegis Network), which last month announced it had achieved a several years' goal of having its office powered by 100% renewable energy, this morning announced a new sustainability goal: becoming a "net zero…

Dentsu Group's president and CEO Toshihiro Yamamoto has confirmed that Dentsu Aegis Network has rebranded to dentsu international, which is the consolidated subsidiary that oversees dentsu’s international business operations. Dentsu…

Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) has launched dentsumcgarrybowen, bringing together Dentsu and mcgarrybowen. The new agency is led by global co-presidents Merlee Jayme, chair and chief creative officer at Dentsu Jayme Syfu in the…

The sweeping tide of management consultancies infringing into the marcoms space appears to have slowed. Research from Results International attributed this hiccup to a “brief period of consolidation and integration rather than a trend”.…

Dentsu Group has branched out into Indian transportation with an investment in Shuttl, a digital smart-bus mobility service used by around 50,000 people each day across seven cities. Dentsu’s corporate venture capital fund invested…

Dentsu and WPP have undone several joint venture operations that date back to the 1980s through a stock swap. The value of the swap was not disclosed. Dentsu Young & Rubicam and Wunderman Dentsu Inc. have become wholly owned…