Have you worked for more than one Omnicom agency? What really is the similarity between them, if you've noticed any? I have people in my team who tell me they wouldn't work for another agency unless it's an Omnicom agency, and I genuinely don't understand what that fixation is about.

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Maybe they don’t care about their 401k or what their health insurance covers.

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No idea. The ones I worked at have been decently chill, but now that I’m on the ipg side, post-merger, things feel decidedly un-chill but I guess we’ll see. On paper it’s freakin horrifying though

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There is def a ranking within media agencies led by OMD, PHD, Hearts and science in this order. The latest agency arriving in the group, Flywheel has a slightly different culture and they operate more as a platform, rather than agency, but will move in that direction. The rest of agencies will be consolidating into group level capabilities and services. Things will remain relatively fluid for the next 6months to a year I reckon.

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I personally haven’t worked for multiple OMC agencies but I think the fixation just kinda stems from the weight that some Omnicom names hold like BBDO, TBWA, and OMD.

Kinda dumb in my opinion but I really think it’s just because OMC holds a lot (if not all post-acquisition) of the legacy, law firm sounding names.

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Omnicom as a holding company USED to have less central command & control over their agencies. Agencies could run themselves a bit more independently. This differed from other holding cos that were becoming more holding co led, faster. Likely less & less true though.

Otherwise there is a lot more “the same” than different between agencies. Agency culture and uniqueness has pretty much dried up everywhere.

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I don’t know someone would say that

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I’ve worked across a few; and they are all completely different. The only thing that was the same was some of the Omnicom systems like timesheets. Our routing systems were not even the same.

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