founded 1997 1997 headquarters new york city london key people nick emery ceo revenue 31.4 billion total billings 1 number of employees 6 000 1 parent groupm 1 website mindshareworld.com mindshare is a global media and marketing services company created in 1997 . history edit the company was created by the merger of the media operations of jwt and ogilvy & mather then the two big full service advertising agencies within wpp group . the launch team comprised mandy pooler and nick emery from o & m and ron de pear and james walker from jwt . initially the business faced strong opposition to the merger from the agency parent groupm in the us region . the mindshare global network consists of approximately 6 000 employees across 115 offices in 82 countries throughout north america latin america europe the middle east africa and asia pacific . 1 2 mindshare usa llc has 11 offices across the u.s. and canada with billings of 9.96 billion according to the media agency monitoring body recma . phil cowdell has served as head of north american operations since 2009 . 3 mindshare nederland was created in 1999 by ton schoonderbeek now regional leader and chief executive for the company s benelux region including scandinavia . 4 references edit a b c d mindshare company profile wpp.com recma media agencies benchmark recma.com cowdell succeeds neslund as n.a. ceo at mindshare adweek.com toevoegen van waarde d rom gaat het bij ons niks gonootschap 2011 dutch external links edit official website v t e wpp divisions and subsidiaries advertising bates chi cohn & wolfe essence communications grey global group jwt digitaria ogilvy & mather ogilvy commonhealth asia pacific scholz & friends sudler & hennessey taxi tenthavenue candyspace forward joule tmarc vml wpp scangroup wunderman the united network young & rubicam burson marsteller media investment management groupm mediacom mec mindshare maxus tenthavenue shopper2buyer spafax kantar group graphic kantar added value kantar futures kantar health kantar imrb kantar media kantar media philippines kantar millward brown affectiva kantar retail kantar tns compete.com kantar vermeer kantar worldpanel lightspeed public relations & public affairs dewey square group finsbury the glover park group hill & knowlton penn schoen & berland quinn gillespie & associates branding & identity the brand union fitch lambie nairn landor associates the partners ray and keshavan tenthavenue kinetic worldwide specialist communications hogarth worldwide wpp digital 24 7 real media blue state digital people philip lader martin sorrell category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mindshare firm & oldid 698434692 categories advertising agencies of the united stateswpp plchidden categories articles with dutch language external linksuse dmy dates from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutsch ti ng vi t edit links this page was last modified on 6 january 2016 at 02 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view