Saying no or goodbye is hard. But to build a resilient, high-performing agency fit for growth, you have to be courageous enough to enforce a client filter.
As the media industry braces itself for consolidation and AI earthquakes, are agencies and adtech combining to find a new, client-centric path?
The Microsoft COO has been named in the top job a day after the holding group downgraded its financial outlook.
When advertising experiences dehumanise, the data we get back from them is equally shallow. So we optimise for the wrong things and stop connecting with people.
An IPA and FT report has concluded that trust is not a ‘nice to have’ as companies that measure trust as a KPI are more likely to deliver stronger profits.
Advertisers remain fixated on youth, but failing to reach older audiences is bad for business when younger consumers turn to their elders for purchasing advice amid uncertainty.
Principal media benefits media agencies’ bottom lines at the cost of operating impartially.
Synthetic research can be a game changer for media strategists — so long as its limitations are taken into account.
IPA urges agencies to rethink billing structure amid ‘limited’ progress toward outcome-based pricing
Agencies need to evolve their commercial models beyond time- and resource-based pricing, especially as AI efficiencies and demand for outcome-based models increase pressure for change.
Dan Clays, CEO of Omnicom Media Group for the EMEA region and president of this year’s Media Lions, takes us inside the judging process and finds a changing industry with expanding opportunity for media.
Analysis: The caveat could be designed to force the merged entity to advertise with media owners sympathetic to the Trump administration.