Agencies

IPG struggled in 2023 as tech clients slashed their ad spend and its digital agencies underperformed.

While other holding companies are touting their AI roadmaps, Omnicom is focusing more on a different shiny object: retail and commerce media.

To better service clients – and help with its own bottom line – Havas Media Network is pushing into specialty services.

GroupM’s integration with Google allows its Choreograph campaign planning and insights platform to compile data derived from Google – including signals from Search, YouTube and Google Analytics – in one interface.

Agencies will keep testing cookie alternatives, devising first-party data strategies and exploring commerce media in 2024.

Pathlabs, which refers to itself as a “media execution partner,” takes care of the mundane tasks and daily minutiae an agency shouldn’t be worrying about, like vetting the tools it’s using or overseeing its DSP or DMP partners.

With support from Google, WPP-owned GroupM announced a new initiative to integrate Privacy Sandbox tests into the media plans of select clients over the coming year.

Dentsu launched a set of identity solutions for Merkury, its identity resolution platform, on Tuesday. The identity solutions try to create a single customer view for marketers.

“It’s an open secret that the industry has challenges, and not just the challenges people talk about publicly,” says Joshua Lowcock, who recently left IPG’s UM for a role at Quad Media.

IPG is floundering. The agency holding company was roughed up in the first two quarters of 2023, and its organic revenue growth declined by 0.4%, with a 1.2% decrease in the US, according to an earnings report on Friday.