Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us and welcome to the Omnicom second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, Press star 1 again. I will now hand the conference over to Greg Lundberg, Investor Relations. Greg, please go ahead. Thank you for joining our second quarter 2026 earnings call. With me today are John Wren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Phil Angelastro, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. On our website, omc.com, you will find a press release and a presentation covering the information we'll review today. An archived webcast will be available when today's call concludes. Before we start, I would like to remind everyone to read the forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial and other information that we've included at the end of our investor presentation. Certain of the statements made today may constitute forward-looking statements. These represent our present expectations Thank you for joining us. I'll now hand the call over to John. Thank you, Craig. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I'm pleased to share our second quarter results. Starting with revenue from core operations, which comprises our ongoing operations and excludes assets held for sale and plan disposition, we achieved organic growth of 6.1% in the second quarter. These strong results were driven by our integrated media and experiential disciplines. Ongoing or core operations adjusted EBITDA growth was 20.4% and EBITDA margin increased by almost 200 basis points to 17.8% as compared to the combined operations in the second quarter of 2025. Our ...