WPP’s Q1 17 revenues (including the full impact of digital billings, i.e. linked to acquiring digital media space on its own account) rose by 16.9% to £3,597m. They were up 3.6% at CER (reflecting the continued weakness of sterling against most currencies: forex impact of +13.3%) and +0.2% organically, therefore slightly outperforming competitor Publicis (-1.2%) and Havas (+0.1%) but behind Omnicom +4.4%. Consolidated net sales (after direct costs, i.e. a better indicator for unde
