Successful Publicis Groupe Tender Offer for Digitas Inc.

End of subsequent offering period: Publicis Groupe owns 93.7%

Paris, France, January 30, 2007 - Publicis Groupe S.A. (NYSE: PUB) announced today that it has completed its cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Digitas Inc. (NASDAQ: DTAS). The subsequent offering period for the offer expired at midnight on January 29, 2007. Pacific Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, purchased in the offer a total of 86,481,160 Digitas Inc. shares, representing approximately 93.7% of the outstanding shares of Digitas Inc.

The acquisition of Digitas Inc. will be completed through a merger of Pacific Acquisition Corp. into Digitas Inc., after which Digitas will become an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Publicis Groupe. In the merger, all outstanding shares of Digitas Inc. common stock (other than restricted shares held by Digitas Inc. employees and shares as to which appraisal rights are perfected under Delaware law) will be converted into the right to receive the same $13.50 in cash per share as paid in the tender offer. The merger will be implemented on an expedited basis pursuant to the short-form merger procedure available under Delaware law, and is expected to occur within the next several days.

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