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Amid Brexit, Rebates, 'Transparency,' Analyst Upgrades Agency Targets

Despite a conflux of volatile developments ranging from Brexit to ongoing "transparency" probes, influential Wall Street analyst Brian Wieser has raised stock price targets for WPP, Publicis and Interpublic and is maintaining his recent recommendations for the Big 4, including Omnicom. The revised outlook from the Pivotal Research Group analyst comes in advance of second quarter earnings reports and reaffirms "hold" ratings for WPP ...

By Joe Mandese 20 hours ago
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Bob Garfield: Garfield At Large
G.O.P. S.O.S.

Do you really want to antagonize so many segments of the population? Do you see Pepsi calling Coke drinkers rapists and murderers and terrorist? You do not. Because some people chafe at that kind of treatment. ...

By Bob Garfield, Featured Columnist 07/11/2016
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Creating Distraction From The Real Media Transparency Issues

It would seem convenient for agency holding companies to sow some seeds of doubt about the integrity of Ebiquity, which is heavily involved in the U.S. media transparency investigations. So Ebiquity's subsidiary Firm Decisions has been ...

By Maarten Albarda, Featured Contributor 07/11/2016
TVBlog
No Easy Answers As 'Mr. Robot' Returns For Season Two

The thing on the wall in the photo at left is a dial phone, and its primitive analog technology represents a bygone era that is incompatible with life in the digital age. Or is it? ...

By Adam Buckman, Featured Columnist 07/11/2016
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