Get ready. The layoffs are happening.
Publicis Groupe proposes 20% salary hike for CEO Arthur Sadoun
https://www.adgully.com/post/15381/publicis-groupe-proposes-20-salary-hike-for-ceo-arthur-sadoun-following-record-performance Publicis Groupe has proposed a significant revision to the compensation of its Chairman and CEO, Arthur Sadoun, following... — read more
Great privacy news for California residents!!
https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/ California residents can now use the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) to request the deletion of their personal information from over 500 registered data brokers with a single submission. Launched on January... — read more
States zero in on dynamic and algorithmic pricing
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/amidst-uncertainty-ftc-states-zero-dynamic-algorithmic-pricing--pracin-2026-03-04/ Now that people are more aware of how their data is being misused by data brokers - how long can they survive? Will the... — read more
Publicis layoffs 2026?
Thoughts? Any Publicis layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
# Concerns Raised Over Ethical Practices at Publicis Medical Research Firm Verilogue
A recent report has highlighted troubling ethical concerns regarding Verilogue, a medical research firm owned by Publicis Groupe, focused on pharmaceutical marketing research. The report describes how Verilogue incentivized doctors to record... — read more
Publicis exposed - Discrimination and Management Issues?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMarketing/comments/1nydv68/publicis_exposed/ Recently on Reddit (/r/AskMarketing), a former Publicis employee shared a LinkedIn post describing alleged discrimination, retaliation, and poor management at the company. The... — read more
India: Alleged anti-competitive practices in the advertising industry against Publicis Groupe's arm, TLG India Pvt Ltd
https://www.exchange4media.com/advertising-news/tlg-india-contests-cci-antitrust-summons-says-publicis-groupe-not-a-legal-entity-146903.html TLG India Pvt Ltd, the Indian arm of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe, has filed a petition in the... — read more
adweeek: https://www.adweek.com/media/publicis-epsilon-ssp-data-reseller-buyer-concerns/
EXCLUSIVE: Media Buyers Block Publicis’ Epsilon SSP Over Data Leakage Concerns WPP, IPG, Havas, and others sent media dollars and data to a rival—via Epsilon’s SSP In the notoriously complex digital advertising supply chain, some brands and their... — read more
Publicis has laid off 100 to 150 people today - September 5th, 2025
Publicis seems to be a sinking ship. Over 400 to 450 people have been laid off in less than a year. Today 100 to 150 MORE people were laid off.
PSA: how to delete your personal data from Epsilon/USA
In order to delete your personal information, go to: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ pick USA from the dropdown and then you can request from a bunch of options: Do not sell my Personal Information Do not share my Personal Information/Opt-out... — read more
PSA: Epsilon UK personal data deletion request form
https://legal.epsilon.com/abacus/consumer-data-deletion-requests/ Epsilon manages the Abacus Alliance on behalf of UK retailers and charities for the purpose of postal marketing communications and provides other marketing related services, such as... — read more
Question
If you are stealing your company's data and the company knows and doesn't stop you, is it still stealing or Business As Usual ?
Publifix Epsilocon is way ahead of Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-warns-french-companies-they-must-comply-with-trumps-diversity-ban-2025-03-29/ US orders French companies to comply with Trump's diversity ban ... It's always been a sham used to pad DEI numbers. They were already... — read more
WARN Notices?
I don't see any for Texas. So they are just firing or harassing out anyone they don't like?
Epsilon goes evangelical
What happened to the post talking about the Epsilon CEO, John G, praising evangelism. It was a direct quote. Why was the post taken down? If the CEO is aligning the company with with white nationalist Christians, we should be able to talk about... — read more
Epsilon under continued investigation
Since fining Epsilon for $150 million dollars and putting a couple of their sales leaders in jail, Epsilon continues to be investigated. The targets are product, sales and techies. Particularly, folks who have been in the company for 15-25 years and... — read more
Publicis fires 100 for RTO violations
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-10-25-publicis-media-fires-nearly-100-workers-for-egregious-non-compliance-with-rto-mandate 'The source claimed that those fired by the US arm of the media company had committed “egregious”... — read more
No raises for the riff raff but ...
... the leaders are getting stock options? Nice going!
Publicis is the laughing stock now
Rival agency here... multiple agencies obviously caught wind of Publicis firing good employees & promoting low skill office puppets.. we've been instructed to search out of compliance health ads.... THERE ARE SO MANY THAT ARE BEING REPORTED! At this... — read more
Hey Epsilon CTO?
Do you think paying $150 million in fines is enough to cover for defrauding elderly people of their life's savings for a decade? That easy? Which politicians did you bribe ?
More lay offs coming!!!
Inside sources & individual higher up in leadership are leaking that they are gonna start doing more layoffs pertaining to office attendance & performance. They are rapidly loosing interest from clients & pitches are going AWFUL. Makes sense after... — read more
More layoffs and jail time coming. Happy Thanksgiving!
https://www.cpr.org/2024/10/01/boulder-man-sentenced-mail-fraud-scheme/ This is related to https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/marketing-company-agrees-pay-150-million-facilitating-elder-fraud-schemes This is just the beginning. Get ready for a wild... — read more
https://www.cpr.org/2024/10/01/boulder-man-sentenced-mail-fraud-scheme/
https://www.cpr.org/2024/10/01/boulder-man-sentenced-mail-fraud-scheme/ A Boulder man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a scheme targeting millions of consumers in mail fraud. In U.S. District Court in Colorado on Monday... — read more
Epsilon executives in jail for mail fraud
https://www.cpr.org/2024/10/01/boulder-man-sentenced-mail-fraud-scheme A Boulder man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a scheme targeting millions of consumers in mail fraud. In U.S. District Court in Colorado on Monday... — read more
Rolling layoffs until when?
I’m not looking forward to expecting to be laid off any day for eternity. I know we all are going to lose jobs here in the future, but it would be nice to have breaks. None of us is a machine that can deal with the daily threat of layoffs without... — read more
Publicis Groupe to lay off up to 200 employees at its digital agencies
Rolling layoffs are underway at Publicis Groupe, with more than 100 employees being let go at its digital agencies this week. https://adage.com/article/agency-news/publicis-groupe-lays-200-digital-agency-employees/2589561
I'd have rather been laid off
I believe I would have been in a much better position compared to the mountains of work I know I will be expected to do now that my team lost several people. At least if I was laid off, I'd have severance, which would give me plenty of time to find a... — read more
How many days did you go into the office this year. Trying to figure out what the cutoff was for the layoffs.
Ive heard the cutoff was 25 but is that actually true?
I can't relax
I didn't see this coming. I wasn't laid off but having layoffs happen so suddenly really shook me up. Now I can't stop thinking about the possibility of even more cuts. How can we know we're safe if they can spring layoffs on us like this, with zero... — read more
Polish your resumes, I guess
All the signs are here that we are heading in a direction of offshoring everything and everybody but essential US-based workforce. Which means the vast majority of us will have to look for another job in the near future. And frankly, I will be all... — read more
Layoffs just today?
Or will they continue? Have any other offices been affected? This came out of the blue, so we all are anxious.
Publicis Groupe mass lay off in disguise claimed reason RTO
They layed off 30+ employees anyone from analyst to director!! Claimed it’s because of lack of return to office everyone is saying it’s a mass layoff in disguise so they can’t come after them! Terrible company! Zero warning just a call from HR on a... — read more
Not so bad, but ...
I won't comment on the previous post https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uDumpQX because they will take it down. It's not all that bad across the company. There's a lot of great technology across the board. But this group, the job is for, is total... — read more
Join us if you want stay in the past
https://www.epsilon.com/jobs?id=744000014622915 LOL
Publicis fined $350 million + $150 million for fraud in the past few years alone
$500 million dollars of fines for frauds in the past few years: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/ad-giant-publicis-paying-350-million-to-settle-us-opi--d-claims.html One of the largest global health advertising agencies, will pay $350 million to... — read more
Publicis fined $350 million for predatory advertising in the Purdue Pharma opi--d crisis
Samuel Alito: A Timeline Of The Supreme Court Justice’s Biggest Controversies https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/05/17/samuel-alito-a-timeline-of-the-supreme-court-justices-biggest-controversies/?sh=4e03a0e045b1 One of the largest global... — read more
Layoffs trickling in without getting reported
There are little layoffs going on but not declared officially. There is a lot of politics in play. Someone with 25+ years experience of dedication to the company was let go because the 2 fat ladies who want his reports influenced the bald eagle... — read more
Ethics Concerns
Just wanted to bump this up. If you are concerned about your data privacy, past and current misuse of your personal data by Publicis, Epsilon, Abacus Alliance or any of their subsidiaries, please contact them with your concerns at this email:... — read more
Stop spying on your employees
Hello Publicis and Epsilon leaders. Stop spying on your employees ' lives using the data you have collected on them.