search engine marketing founded chicago illinois 1998 as dynamic trade headquarters chicago illinois key people michael kahn ceo performics worldwide craig greenfield coo performics worldwide patricia powell cfo performics worldwide frederic joseph ceo performics emea gareth mulryan managing director apac philippe seignol managing director latam products search engine marketing number of employees globally 1000 website performics.com performics is a performance marketing agency that provides paid search natural search social display affiliate and mobile marketing solutions to a variety of fortune 500 and smaller clients . performics is owned by the french advertising holding company publicis groupe euronext paris fr0000130577 . performics is based in chicago illinois but operates in 34 markets globally . they service approximately 200 clients including bose reckitt benckiser kohl s verizon wireless toyota and lvmh . it was voted one of the top workplaces in chicago by employees as reported by the chicago tribune in 2011 1 and 2012 . 2 contents 1 brief history 2 ownership 3 see also 4 references 5 external links brief history edit this article contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . november 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message founded as dynamic trade as an affiliate marketing company in 1998 by james jamie crouthamel who served as ceo until the sale in 2004 launched search engine marketing services in 2001 was acquired for 58 million in cash plus an earn out of up to 7 million by doubleclick in 2004 3 doubleclick announced the acquisition of doubleclick including performics by google for 3.1 billion in april 2007 . the acquisition was finalized in march 2008 after the approval of the department of justice antitrust authorities in the united states and the brussels based european commission the antitrust authority of the european union . 4 5 the controversial 6 search engine marketing and optimization part of performics was acquired by publicis in 2008 after the purchase of doubleclick by google nasdaq goog had been finalized . 7 the affiliate network part of doubleclick performics remained with google and was re branded google affiliate network . ownership edit performics the performance based marketing services division of publicis for multi channel marketers . see also edit search engine optimization search engine marketing web analytics online advertising references edit chicago s top workplaces 2011 the winners . the chicago tribune . november 2011 . retrieved 27 november 2011 . chicago s top workplaces 2012 the winners . the chicago tribune . retrieved july 25 2013 . the clickz network may 17 2004 doubleclick acquires performics clickz.com retrieved august 12 2007 paul r. la monica april 13 2007 google to buy doubleclick for 3.1 billion cnn money retrieved january 15 2009 lane r ellis march 11 2008 google gets e.u. go ahead for doubleclick merger search engine world retrieved january 15 2009 loren baker april 16 2007 what will google do with performics search engine journal retrieved january 15 2009 google completes sale of performics sept 10 2008 1 nytimes.com retrieved november 11 2008 external links edit performics company website performics press releases publicis groupe company website parent company performics italy company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title performics & oldid 743337007 categories internet advertising services and affiliate networkscompanies based in chicagomarketing companies established in 1998hidden categories articles needing cleanup from november 2012all pages needing cleanuparticles with sections that need to be turned into prose from november 2012 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 add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 00 . 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