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Instead of a 30-second spot, the French grid operator made a 17-minute film — and bet that depth would earn attention a hard sell never could.

Havas grew net revenue 7.2% to EUR 703m in Q3 2026, with US-led organic growth of 2.4%, and held its full-year guidance. A read on the holding-company landscape.

Arena Media has won all UK & Ireland media planning and buying for film studio Lionsgate after a competitive pitch, a visible entertainment-sector win for Havas.

Havas Play appoints Johana Pallas to lead its 17-strong Influence & PR division, with a brief to scale creator work internationally — a signal of how influence is maturing into an always-on discipline.

France's leading supplementary-pension group has made an unashamedly emotional brand film with Havas Paris — turning a dry, easy-to-defer category into something worth feeling, and worth acting on.

Havas Paris has launched The Creator Society, a talent-management arm, pledging to reinvest 5% of its fees into the projects of the creators it signs — a new twist on the agency-creator model.

The City of Paris has awarded the Marathon de Paris concession to the Cadence Running United consortium, which groups Havas Events with sports agencies Keneo and OSE, ending ASO's long tenure.

A high-profile public-to-private move puts Havas into the disinformation-defence business — a sensitive intersection of comms, security and politics.

Following a pitch, Geely awarded a full-service advertising mandate to Havas Germany to steer its German market launch, spanning strategy, creative, media, events and PR.

Havas is restructuring its UK business and elevating Patrick 'Paddy' Affleck to UK CEO across media and creative, deepening its single-'Village' integration bet.

EDF's 80th anniversary campaign — a BETC-led creative platform amplified by Havas Media France and a bespoke Naza track — is a textbook example of how legacy French brands should use anniversaries to reset perception.

Asahi-owned Peroni Nastro Azzurro has handed its global creative account to Havas after a competitive pitch that started in April, ending a two-year McCann relationship and consolidating Asahi brand duties inside a single holdco.

RECMA's France 2025 ranking keeps Havas Media No.1 at 14.5% as Zenith overtakes Starcom and iProspect enters the top five — the French media-agency pecking order.

Havas reported 2.5% organic growth and an improved 11.0% EBIT margin for H1 2026, but flagged that France and the UK turned 'slightly negative' in Q2 — an early warning on UK ad-market softness as results season opens.