Adrants Billboards: Publicis Says Havas Should Stay Independent

• There are those who believe CEO weblogs will change the face of marketing while saving millions. We agree.
• Publicis Chairman Maurice Levy offered the kind of compliment only and an agency exec can make saying , "It's a competitor whom we respect. It's a strong competitor on the French market, a bit less strong globally, which has lots of qualities and so for the market in general it would be best if Havas stayed independent."
• Wonderbra model Eva Herzigoza launched her own fashion line Tuesday in Paris.
• Seems NBC's excitement over Olympic ratings was off base according to a Mediaedge:cia study that found ratings to have increased only three percent over Sydney's rather than the nine percent NBC reported.