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  • Disbanding The Group(M); TikTok Struts Its Stuff At NewFronts

    WPP’s GroupM is getting a new name; there’s no such thing as a TikTok ban at NewFronts; and Meta’s ad growth prospects might be plateauing.

  • Spinning The Wheel; Criteo Has A New CEO

    Mohegan and LiveRamp partner on a “casino media network;” Criteo hires its new CEO from the agency side; and Publicis Groupe consolidates

  • IPG Dusts Itself Off After A Difficult 2023, Enters Recovery Mode

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

  • Comic: Cookies n' Chrome

    Only The CMA Can Kill The Cookie; AMC Makes Linear TV More Programmatic

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]

  • Comic: Video Scarcity

    TV Inventory Keeps Dwindling; The MFA And DEI Mixup

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rare Wares TV inventory is on track to become an even scarcer resource. US television (linear and streaming combined) will likely lose almost a quarter of its ad inventory volume over the next four years, according to media prognosticator Brian Wieser, writing at […]

  • TikTok Is Getting Serious About Search; A Complex Fracture, But Not The Bad Kind

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Great Search TikTok has made waves because of its organic traction as a new kind of search engine. People use it to look for stores and restaurants nearby, where to travel, where to stay – you name it. But TikTok hasn’t effectively […]

  • Martin Coady, executive director, marketing technology & Tech Studio Lead, VMLY&R

    Don't Outsource Your Ethics: The Implications Of Partnering With Big Tech

    You can outsource a surprising amount of your operations to Big Tech. But that comes with a range of costs and risks that are important to weigh against the benefits and opportunities, writes Martin Coady, executive director of marketing technology and Tech Studio lead at VMLY&R.

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    Data Says No: In Defense Of The Right Brain

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lara O’Shea, Executive Strategy Director, VMLY&R. Those who lived in noughties Britain will remember the scenes in Little Britain where David Walliams played customer service advisor Carol Beers; she lived behind her computer screen, […]

  • VMLY&R CEO Jon Cook On Branding And Experience Post-COVID

    AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. COVID-19 has changed consumers’ media habits – and their experiences with brands. “So much has been taken away from us, [people will] start to reevaluate brands in their lives, whether that’s consciously or unconsciously,” said […]

  • How WPP’s Newly Merged Agencies Are Approaching CES

    Every January, agency executives make their annual pilgrimage to CES to check out the latest trends in consumer technology and distill them into business ideas for clients. At WPP, newly merged agencies VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson are taking a wider purview at the show in keeping with their broadened services. Where Y&R and J. Walter […]

  • WPP Launches VMLY&R To Create Connected Brands

    One month on the job, WPP CEO Mark Read is making big changes at the holding company. WPP will combine digital agency VML and 100-year-old ad agency Young & Rubicam into a new agency named VMLY&R, the group announced Wednesday. WPP tapped Jon Cook, VML’s CEO since 2011, to lead the company and its 7,000 […]