Omnicom Media Group Names Matt Spiegel CEO of OMG Digital

Appeared in Forbes.com, March 27

NEW YORK, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- Omnicom Media Group today announced the appointment of Matt Spiegel as CEO of Omnicom Media Group Digital (OMG Digital), effective April 1. In his new position, Spiegel reports to Daryl Simm, CEO of Omnicom Media Group, and will have global functional responsibility for digital across all OMG companies.

Spiegel is founder and CEO of OMG search specialist Resolution Media. He will be succeeded at Resolution Media by Dave Gould who has been promoted from Senior VP to President.

Advertising Age recently ranked Omnicom Group as the leading holding company in digital media. According to RECMA, OMG Digital alone oversees $2 billion in digital media spending.

In addition to leading digital initiatives across Omnicom Media Group, Spiegel has functional reporting responsibility for Digital Investment, Product Development, Digital Analytics, Program Development and Organizational Training and Development. OMG Digital companies Resolution Media (search marketing) and NEXT (emerging media) also will report to Spiegel.

"We now measure our clients' digital spending in billions of dollars. Our tremendous growth in digital has been driven by fully integrating digital strategy into our client teams at OMD and PHD while at the same time leveraging our group's scale to develop functional excellence at an OMG level. This ensures that all our clients have access to the very best capabilities in digital," Simm said. "Matt has an outstanding profile to lead this effort, including an entrepreneurial spirit to get things done, the experience of over a decade in digital media, and an understanding of our clients' needs."

About Omnicom Media Group
Omnicom Media Group is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc. Its businesses include leading media service companies OMD Worldwide and PHD Network, as well as a number of specialized companies in areas including search engine marketing, branded content production, asset barter, out-of-home media, insert media and discount newspaper. Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (http://www.omnicomgroup.com/) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, media, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

About Omnicom
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.