High-value data and insights on global media spend investments.
Creative & Media agency benchmarks.
INDEPENDENT AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COMPANY.
COMvergence’s purpose is to analyze and measure the performances and strategic developments of the global MarCom holding company agencies, major independents, and largest management consultancy firms.
COMvergence delivers (to advertisers, agencies, pitch consultants, media vendors, financial analysts) high value products and services, with real insights and analysis, in a modern format that can be easily manipulated. Our key principles are objectivity (through the measurement criteria used to benchmark the agencies and the groups’ performances), simplicity (of our methodologies) and agility (thanks to our online platform gathering all available data and displaying insights on dashboards and dynamic graphs that are easy to read, understand and act on).
GEOGRAPHIC REACH.
Combined, these 50 markets account for approximately 95% of the worldwide media spend.
North America
USA
Canada
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Mexico
Peru
EMEA
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Middle East
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
Asia Pacific
Australia
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
50 countries
in 2021
OUR PARTNERS AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES.
COMvergence has strategic alliances with:
These partnerships are critical to deliver unparalleled research products, market analysis and methodologies.
SPOTLIGHTS.
Spotlight November 2021
For advertiser’s evaluating their MarCom resources or conducting a search, specialized units are frequently created to serve those who may require more than a single agency discipline. COMvergence assembled a quick summary of the major bespoke units/integrated agencies set up by the “Big 6” holding companies.
Spotlight May 2021
Top 30 Global Advertisers based on total media spend 2020. Each of the Top 30 Intl. Marketers spent more than US$1B in 2020. The share of digital varies between: 21% and 58%. Media spend declined on average by -21% (vs. 2019) among the Top 30 Global Advertisers.
Spotlight March 2021
Key Findings & Rankings from our 2020 New Business Barometer (NBB) Global study In 2020 $22.2B reviewed globally. 2/3 of the total volume concentrated in six countries, of which USA with $7.3B. MediaCom leads with $1.2B of new client wins followed by...
KEY HIGHTLIGHTS.
2020 Key Highlights
COMvergence's annual Key Highlights presents a unique overview of the main media pitches, leadership changes, developments/achievements, and agency acquisitions which have occurred during the year. It also includes headcount and billings figures relative to the media agency networks and their owner groups. COMvergence uses this data to provide actionable insights and measurement studies on agencies.
IN THE NEWS.
Following a Year That Rocked the Industry, OMD USA Retains Number One Ranking, Drives Deeper into Digital
In the 2020 COMvergence Media Agencies Billings and Ranking Report published today, Omnicom Media Group Agency OMD again topped the list of the 29 US media agencies evaluated in the annual accounting. This marks the fourth consecutive number one ranking for OMD USA since the COMvergence published its first US billings report in 2017.
The Incredible Shrinking Madison Avenue Media-Buying Clout
Madison Avenue's biggest media buyers saw their total media billings volume erode in 2020, but not at the rate of the overall marketplace, making the U.S.'s "Big 3" -Publicis Media, GroupM and Omnicom Media Group- bigger fish in a shrinking pond.
In A Down Year For Most Agencies, OMD Remained Biggest US Media Shop By Billings In 2020
Omnicom's OMD remained the top-ranked U.S. media agency by billings for full-year 2020, according to a new report from agency tracker COMvergence. Publicis Media was the top-ranked media agency group for the same period according to the report.
