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Michael Nyman is trying to build the anti-holding company
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ACC’s founder argues that the future of marketing lies in collaboration, specialization and stripping out the internal competition that defines traditional holding companies.
Michael Nyman has a simple theory about brands. Great ones survive bad products. Weak ones don’t survive much at all.
That may sound like a line from a brand strategist’s notebook, but for Nyman, founder and CEO of Acceleration Community of Companies, or ACC, it is also the basis of a very different agency model.
The Drum caught up with him at
Possible 2026
, where he argued that the traditional holding company model is not dead because agencies are dead. Quite the opposite. He believes the marketing services industry has a very bright future. But only if it stops building itself around internal competition, legacy cost structures and sprawling global empires that were designed for another age.
“I just had this feeling that the holding company model was dying,” he says. “It wasn’t any prejudice against IPG. It was really looking at the model.”
Nyman knows that world well. Before
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