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  • Ad Tech Companies Are Trying To Make CTV Out-Of-Home Happen

    Nexxen announced an integration with out-of-home ad tech platform Taiv to extend its CTV ad campaigns to TV screens in restaurants and sports bars. Guess what’s old is new again when it comes to marketers using TV as a way to reach as many people as possible.

  • WPP Does Not Fear Generative AI

    Agency holding company WPP met its own expectations in the first quarter of the year. Standout GroupM, its media buying and planning agency, contributed to about 36% of WPP’s Q1 revenue, growing 6.1% in Q1.

  • WPP Is A Go For Growth In 2023

    The ad agency holding company WPP is on the up and up and remains confident in its clients’ continued investment in marketing projects despite a challenging macroeconomic environment. WPP is “well positioned to deliver sustainable, long-term growth” after seeing broad-based growth in 2022, said CEO Mark Read during the company’s earnings report on Thursday.

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    GroupM Underperforms At WPP As Clients Cut Media Spend

    COVID-19 has had an outsize negative effect on GroupM than on the rest of parent company WPP’s business as clients paused and cut back on media spend during the crisis. The holding company did not break out GroupM’s Q2 or H1 revenues, but WPP CEO Mark Read told investors on Thursday that the media buying […]

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    WPP’s Best-Case 2020 Scenario Is Flat Sales, And Its Worst Is A 40% Decline

    WPP is slogging along with the rest of the agency market. Q1 like-for-like revenues were down 3.8% to $3.5 billion, the company said Wednesday. In North America, WPP’s largest market, like-for-like revenue was down 1.9% to roughly $1.2 billion. Grey, GroupM and VMLY&R all grew in the region, but revenues began to sag across the […]