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Publics Groupe, continuing its strong run at the top of the global advertising league, has lifted its outlook for the full year after posting stronger than expected 10% growth with organic revenue at 5.4% in the June quarter.
The company, citing "material" market share gains, despite “challenging macroeconomic environment,” now expects to end the year with 5% organic growth, up from its previous 4% to 5% range.
The France-based advertising group, noting a dozen big pitch wins, also plans acquisitions to build revenue.
Net revenue was €33.617 billion, up 4.6%, in the June quarter.
Publicis is well ahead of rivals, including the UK's WPP which earlier this month downgraded its full year revenue outlook in the face of weak sales, client losses, a pull back on ad spend and a shrinking pitch runway.
“In a tough macroeconomic environment, Publicis had a very strong Q2 ahead of expectations,” said CEO Arthur Sadoun.
“We delivered +10% revenue growth, leading to +5.9% net revenue organic growth, and an outperformance versus competition once again, of 800 basis points.
“At the same time we improved our already industry-leading margin to 17.4% in H1, while making significant investments in our people and our capabilities.
“Despite the ongoing uncertainty of the global context, our unprecedented new business run of over a dozen material wins in the first six months of 2025 means we are raising our organic growth guidance to close to +5% for the full year, up from our previous +4-5% range.
“Now, in what is a particularly disrupted industry, we are looking ahead to the rest of the year and beyond with confidence and a single focus: executing on our strategy.
“We are uniquely positioned to continue to win market share by bringing clients the immediate business solutions they need to grow in an uncertain global context.
“We are reinforcing our status as a Category of One with a targeted M&A strategy to further accelerate on AI-led capabilities. And we will continue to invest to attract and retain the best talent in the industry.”
The June quarter performance was across all regions: US +5.3%; Europe +4.6%; APAC +5.7%.
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