
Attention: Publicis Groupe is no longer a holding company. As of today, it’s a “platform.”
That was one of the pronouncements in Paris Thursday morning from Chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun at the launch of Publicis Groupe’s much-anticipated AI tool Marcel, unveiled in an “unboxing” to 450 senior Publicis employees, 100 clients and various media assembled in the bowels of an upscale hotel just off the Champs-Elysees.
The stakes were high for the event, which came nearly a year after Sadoun announced Marcel at last year’s Cannes Lions, dramatizing the company’s commitment by pledging to fund it by skipping awards programs including Cannes. Publicis kept up the hype as it prepared to reveal the results, displaying a countdown clock at the event and playing pounding music as Sadoun took the stage, tension and excitement both palpable in the room.
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