2018 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $50 million
Net revenue for advertising and PR company Publicis Groupe declined 3.9 percent to 9 billion euros in 2018, compared to a year prior. The company acquired 17 companies in 2018, French data marketing company Soft Computing in February 2019, data marketing giant Epsilon in July for around $4 billion and marketing agency Rauxa in August. In January of this year, it sold Publicis Health Solutions, and it's negotiating the sale of Proximedia. As of September 2019, Publicis operated in more than 100 countries and employed 84,000 people, compared with 77,767 employees at year-end 2017.