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Please send your credentials to:. Print View. Creative Work. Submit Your Request. This means continually challenging the media status quo; seeking to reinvent legacy media models; looking to do things differently in media, to do them better. Carat creates better business outcomes for clients through our command of media convergence.

We are uniquely designed to combine strategy with expert specialist execution, to deliver integrated solutions for our clients — from integrated media ecosystems reflective of culture, to data-enabled content delivered programmatically and optimised continuously.

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But understanding them is key to delivering more relevant, engaging consumer experiences. Our third annual survey of 32, people across The Carat brand also serves as direct parent to various specialist units, including those specializing in qualitative research usually as Carat Insight , business to business, multicultural media, sponsorship and so on.

Other specialist units include US-based Carat Trade, which barters goods and services on behalf of client advertisers in exchange for media space; and Carat Affiliates, a planning and buying unit which works with smaller US creative agencies. In , Aegis restructured its digital media offering, spinning off part of what was previously known as Carat Interactive in several territories into a separate network, which now operates globally under the Isobar banner.

Carat continues to work closely with Isobar. A new creative strategy and branded content unit was launched in the UK in the UK under the name Space. In , the group relaunched its London-based B2B media agency Just Media, specialising in technology and finance clients, as a global network under the name Carat Enterprise.

That brand now covers 70 markets worldwide, with hubs in San Francisco, London and Singapore. Carat effectively invented the concept of the independent media shop towards the end of the s. Acting as brokers, the Gross brothers began purchasing large quantities of airtime from French radio stations at discounted rates, and then sold it on piecemeal to advertisers, passing on some of the standard discount to clients and keeping the rest for themselves.

This middle man concept was not new in France. It was already commonplace for a sales house to act as the intermediary between an advertiser and their chosen medium. However the other companies operating in this area were either aligned to a creative agency as in the case of Media et Regies, a division of uncle Marcel's Publicis or to an established mediaowner as was the case then with Havas.

As free agents, the Gross brothers were perceived as little better than pirates, and their aggressive bulk-buying tactics caused an immediate rift with their uncle. Established creative agencies shunned SGGMD because it was undercutting their profit margins, while many large advertisers feared that the upstart business would leak their marketing plans to competitors.

However television and radio companies were more than happy to hand over their airtime, and gradually the Gross brothers took control of more and more of the market. A key breakthrough came when two major advertisers, Carrefour and Danone, consolidated all their media buying with SGGMD in the early s. By the s, it was increasingly apparent that the so-called "media independent" concept would work in other countries as well. The UK proved especially receptive.

Also a world-class cardplayer, he won the World Poker Championships later the same year. Eventually, however, WCRS found that its advertising and media interests were increasingly in conflict with each other.

The resulting group repositioned itself as a media-only business under the new name Aegis , with Gilbert and Francois Gross as its biggest shareholders. Yet Peter Scott's plans didn't work out quite as expected.