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05 September 2022

Havas Group acquires UK based data-led creative specialist Agency Additive+

The acquisition expands Havas Media Group UK’s regional footprint to Edinburgh adding to existing presence in London, Manchester and Leeds

 

Havas Group has acquired data-led creative specialist agency additive+ to enable clients to deliver more tailored and personalised content and advertising to their customers in real time. additive+ will integrate into Havas Media Group (HMG) UK under the leadership of CEO Patrick Affleck.

 

The acquisition of the Edinburgh-based agency strengthens the network’s ‘meaningful media’ proposition, which focuses on creating media experiences (MX) that deliver the optimum connection with a given audience, in a specific context and with the right content and message. additive+’s suite of capabilities builds on the Group’s existing audience-first data solution, Converged, by using data to optimise creative messages as well as media channels, platforms and formats.

 

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We are delighted to welcome the additive+ team to the Havas Family. This acquisition strengthens our ability to seamlessly distribute and optimise unlimited volumes of dynamic and relevant creative messaging to addressable audiences at scale across any digital channel and device. This will allow us to further improve our clients’ media and creative effectiveness by maximising creative relevance when it matters most, helping them to win the battle of attention

Yannick Bolloré

Chairman and CEO Havas Group

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We’ve had a global view on business since setting up, and with the scale a major network offers, Havas Media Group UK opens up a huge opportunity for us to build our offering in the UK and beyond. We’re particularly excited by Paddy and the team’s truly global outlook and joined up proposition. The Havas Village model enables media and creative to work hand in hand, in order to create the most meaningful outcomes for clients, something which is completely aligned with our own approach.

Richard Gill

Founder and Managing Partner, additive+

HMG UK agencies and divisions, including Havas Media, Havas Entertainment, Havas Market and Search Laboratory (another recent acquisition by the Group) can now partner with additive+ in delivering full-funnel, multi-channel media experiences for its clients. additive+ have already developed a scalable solution for international clients and they are already planning on launching their capabilities in other key markets, including the US.

 

additive+ will remain based out of Edinburgh, Scotland, where it was founded, further extending Havas Media Group’s UK footprint beyond its existing offices in London, Manchester and Leeds.

 

Since being founded by Richard Gill and Jack Few in 2020, additive+ has worked with over 50 clients across the UK, Europe and the US, including Heineken, Netflix, and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, delivering an average 55% uplift in effectiveness. additive+’s excellence in this area will provide further support to Havas Media Group UK’s award-winning effectiveness work.

 

Gill began his advertising career with Publicis Groupe in London before setting up a performance marketing business. He later founded iProspect’s Edinburgh office and subsequently became Managing Partner at Dentsu in 2016.

 

Few started out as new business executive at Rainmaker Consulting in London, and then worked at sports marketing specialist start-up Rush Sports Marketing. He later joined Ogilvy as a Client Director in Asia, working across The Coca-Cola Company, before becoming Director, Head of Dynamic Creative at Dentsu in 2016.

 

Before founding additive+, Gill and Few worked together at Dentsu in Scotland, harnessing their skills in media and creative respectively to deliver data-driven creative campaigns for clients across the UK.

 

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For more information, contact:

Stéphanie Bertrand-Tassilly

Chief Communications & CSR Officer, Havas Group

+33 (0)6 80 84 49 62

stephanie.bertrand-tassilly@havas.com

Michael Phillips 

Associate Communications Director Havas Media Group London

michael.phillips@havasmg.com

About Havas Group

 

Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups. Founded in 1835 in Paris, the Group employs 22,000 people in more than 100 countries and operates through its three business units covering all communication activities. Havas Group’s mission is to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people. To better anticipate client needs, Havas has adopted a fully integrated model through its 60+ Havas Villages around the world. In these Villages, creative, media and healthcare & wellness teams work together, ensuring agility and a seamless experience for clients. We are committed to building a diverse culture where everybody feels they belong, can be themselves, thrive and grow. Havas Group integrated into Vivendi in December 2017. Further information about Havas Group is available on the company’s website: havasgroup.com

 

#MeaningfulDifference

 

 

About Havas Media Group UK

 

Havas Media Group’s one of the largest advertising groups in the world, working with the likes of Dominos, O2, Legal & General, UMG and Starbucks.

Our overarching mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses and lives of the people we work with. Working with our clients, our solution is simple: we identify, agree and deliver meaningful media experiences from the three practices within our Group:

 

  • Havas Media – through which we deliver meaningful outcomes through meaningful media
  • Havas Market – through which we help clients build meaningful retail experiences
  • Havas Entertainment – through which we help clients create meaningful moments in culture.

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