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Media Buying Briefing: WPP and Stagwell offer a tale of two outlooks

The two holding companies that reported their 2024 earnings last week — WPP and Stagwell — painted considerably different portraits of the future in the guidance they offered for the rest of 2025. Besides IPG’s dour expectations from two weeks ago, WPP is the only holdco to say it expects to have a rough year. […]

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‘It drives sales’: Amidst DEI dismantling, Hyundai maintains multicultural marketing, spend commitments

It’s hard to ignore the sweeping changes to corporate and federal diversity, equity and inclusion policies, as brands like Target, Walmart and now Paramount, for example, continue to retool or walk back their DEI policies. Hyundai, meanwhile, says its multicultural marketing efforts and budget commitments will remain in place.  Erik Thomas, director of experiential and

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IAS Outperforms Ad Tech’s Q4 Slump And Outgrows Its Verification Roots

Integral Ad Science broke a streak of punishing quarterly earnings reports for public ad tech companies when it announced better-than-expected Q4 results on Friday morning. The company’s total revenue of $153 million in Q4 was up 14% year-over-year. IAS earned $530 million in 2024 at a 12% growth rate. IAS shares jumped by about 15%

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How football fans are engaging with content in new ways like AI

Football fans consume content in a variety of ways, influenced by changes in social media trends, platform features, and the demand for on-the-go access. To keep up with changing habits, content creators balance short-form and long-form video and focus on engagement and return on investment (ROI) using data-driven approaches. In an interview with James Lindsey,…

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