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WPP’s turbulent 2025: Inside the reorgs, financial woes, and new leadership under Cindy Rose

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify WPP has had a hell of a year.  2025 was a nod to the good, the bad and the ugly for the agency hold co. There were financial challenges, leadership changes and major reorgs, but WPP keeps circling to the left.  Continue reading this article on digiday.com. Sign up for

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Ad Tech Briefing: The Programmatic Governance Council is a bid to reset power dynamics

After months of increasingly public friction over transaction IDs (TID), request duplication, and the broader transparency rift roiling in programmatic advertising, the IAB Tech Lab is preparing to corral the industry’s most entrenched parties. The upcoming Programmatic Governance Council, debuting on Dec. 10, is being pitched as a reset point: a forum where agencies and

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Newsweek is building an AI Mode-like experience to customize homepages for readers

Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google’s AI Mode search experience, as part of a broader partnership with Google Cloud. The goal is to create a more conversational, AI-driven homepage that will function more like a utility for users, boosting time spent on-site and helping counter the drop in search referrals, according to

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U.K. retailer Tesco wants advertisers to see it as equal to any traditional media partner

Having hosted its fifth upfront last month, U.K. retailer Tesco, is on a mission to change how advertisers perceive Tesco Media — its retail media arm — in a bid to take more ad dollars across media plans. Nick Ashley Digiday caught up with Tesco Media’s client development director, Nick Ashley, to talk through why

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Why Carter’s new CMO wants more emotional, relatable marketing across channels

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Carter’s new CMO, Sarah Crockett, has led marketing efforts at a number of consumer brands including DSW, Dickie’s, Backcountry and Burton Snowboards. But when she joined the 160-year-old children’s apparel brand this summer, she was attracted to the opportunity to get real about parenting and

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Visa extends its reach into the creator economy’s liquidity crunch

Payment frictions continue to undercut the creator economy’s growth. Creators continue to wait too long to get paid, according to several ad execs interviewed for this story. What should be routine disbursements can slip from days into weeks and whatever finally shows up has already been thinned out by an expanding chain of middlemen —

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WTF is multimodal AI for advertisers? | How AI models are enabling a new level of flexibility and precision in targeting

This WTF guide, sponsored by Dstillery, dives into what multimodal AI is, the many ways it can be used and how it can solve both current and future challenges for advertisers. As AI adoption accelerates in advertising, the technology itself is evolving beyond what most advertisers initially encountered. Early applications of generative AI and large

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