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Samba TV, InfoSum Unite for Privacy-First Media Planning
InfoSum enables secure, federated data collaboration, allowing Samba TV and WPP Media to support brands in scaling AI-powered marketing solutions without compromising data privacy or control. Samba TV has announced an international partnership with InfoSum, part of WPP, to enable privacy-forward media planning and measurement across markets. The partnership brings Samba TV's media intelligence into the InfoSum ecosystem, unlocking insights for media through a secure, AI-enhanced data infrastructure. InfoSum clients can now leverage Samba TV's AI-ready contextual, viewership, and behavioural data to power agentic applications of data, including media planning, contextual targeting, and outcome-based measurement, extending the InfoSum data collaboration platform. The partnership has already seen traction with clients who are leveraging Samba TV's data to inform and optimise media activation strategies to impact sales. The integration is now available to InfoSum and WPP Media clients globally, with initial rollout focused on Europe and expansion planned across additional markets. The combination of Samba TV's cross-platform data signals with WPP Media's workflows and InfoSum's data collaboration platform enables brands to tap into insights, such as viewership behaviour, in-market signals, and consumer journey mapping to drive smarter campaign decisions amplified by AI to achieve personalisation at scale. ALSO READ: Kargo, Samba TV to Offer Advanced Targeting Across Mobile, CTV The result is a scalable, agentic solution for marketers looking to achieve greater efficiency and performance across every screen in a privacy-safe way. 'With the number of optimisation decisions growing exponentially as consumer media platforms proliferate across many screens, AI is an important technology in the marketer's playbook to extend their brand strategy into the far corners of consumer attention,' said Samba TV CEO and Co-Founder Ashwin Navin. 'Our partnership with InfoSum empowers the world's largest brands to bring their first-party data alongside Samba's proprietary, AI-ready data to achieve a higher degree of relevance, performance, and efficiency.' InfoSum's role as the neutral, secure intermediary enables Samba TV to maintain control of their data while unlocking its full value through seamless collaboration. The result is a new blueprint for how agencies, data partners, and clean rooms can work together to advance the future of advertising. 'As advertisers demand greater accountability and smarter outcomes, this partnership delivers on the promise of data collaboration without compromise,' said InfoSum CEO and WPP Media Chief Solutions Officer Lauren Wetzel. 'By combining Samba TV's unparalleled real-time omniscreen insights and comprehensive dataset with InfoSum's privacy-first infrastructure, our clients gain a competitive edge by unlocking faster, safer, and more scalable access to the data they need to fuel next-gen, AI-powered marketing strategies.' Now operating within WPP Media, InfoSum strengthens the group's AI-driven data capabilities and provides clients with a robust infrastructure to unlock the full value of their first-party data. By enabling secure, federated data collaboration, InfoSum empowers Samba TV and WPP Media to help brands scale AI-powered marketing solutions without compromising data privacy or control. 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It provides services in government, life sciences, insurance, financial services, and other verticals. VISIT WEBSITE Contentstack is a headless CMS and Composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solution provider that helps marketers gain a competitive edge. It recently launched into Google Cloud Marketplace, and is also available on Microsoft Azure and AWS. It seamlessly enables mid-market brands to adopt its omnichannel campaign engine to drive higher conversions and sales. VISIT WEBSITE Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud provides businesses an edge with its modular capabilities: Content Management System (CMS), Discovery features for search and merchandising optimisation, and Engagement tools such as Customer Data Platforms (CDP) for personalisation and analytics. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a comprehensive set of services specifically designed to address the day-to-day requirements for personalised customer experience at scale. Its platform helps manage different digital content and assets to improve customer satisfaction. Some of its products include Adobe Gen Studio, Experience Manager Sites, Real-time CDP, and Marketo Engage. VISIT WEBSITE Acquia offers DXP solutions, comprising of two main elements: Acquia Drupal Cloud and Acquia Marketing Cloud. It can be accessed in both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) with additional components such as Site Factory for multisite management, digital asset management (DAM), CDP, personalisation, and Campaign Studio. VISIT WEBSITE
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
WPP's EssenceMediacom bags Nilkamal's media mandate
WPP Media has secured the complete media mandate for Nilkamal with EssenceMediacom leading the charge across both digital and offline channels. The mandate covers media planning and buying , digital strategy , and execution thus, underscoring Nilkamal's commitment to a holistic, full-funnel marketing approach. This digital-first mandate is focused on accelerating Nilkamal's brand growth by expanding reach among new-age consumers, deepening brand engagement, and driving measurable business outcomes. Nilkamal's dedicated EssenceMediacom team will leverage WPP Media's strengths in advanced audience analytics, precision targeting, and agile campaign delivery to unlock growth at scale. Nilkamal will also benefit from the cutting-edge martech capabilities including AI-driven segmentation and programmatic buying , while experimenting with innovative content formats such as interactive storytelling and immersive experiences. Navin Khemka , CEO – South Asia, EssenceMediacom said, 'We look forward to welcoming Nilkamal to our growing portfolio of future focussed brands. This partnership gives us the opportunity to blend strategy with creativity and data to deliver impact across the funnel. With a focus on innovation and audience intelligence, we aim to build a bold and future-ready narrative for Nilkamal that drives lasting impact and value.' Hiten Parekh, Managing Director, Nilkamal added, 'We are glad to partner with WPP Media's EssenceMediacom in this new chapter of our growth journey. The agency's proven expertise in crafting innovative, data-led strategies aligns perfectly with our vision for accelerated growth. We look forward to crafting engaging, insight-led campaigns that elevate our brand presence and drive long-term value.' In FY 2023–24, Nilkamal reported a consolidated revenue of INR 3,196.33 crore and a net profit of INR 122.43 crore, reflecting robust growth across its plastic products and e-commerce segments.
Martechvibe
3 days ago
- Business
- Martechvibe
Vidmob Launches The Aperture
The Aperture provides marketers with a structured framework to decode the impact of creative choices—like tone, storytelling, and production quality—on campaign performance. Vidmob has announced the launch of The Aperture, its new proprietary, differentiated technology that will provide marketers with a structured framework to assess creative parameters and their impact on performance. The technology can break down creative decisions into measurable elements and contextualise those elements into categories that are essential for marketers to understand, such as production level, storytelling, and tone. The Aperture helps advertisers go beyond a surface-level understanding of advertising effectiveness and uncovers which creative decisions drive performance. The Aperture will help answer questions such as whether and why their influencer content is working, if subtle branding is as effective as overt branding, or if a problem-solution story arc or testimonial drives more conversions. 'We're incredibly proud of The Aperture, it gives marketers the essential data framework needed to measure and decode creative impact, and we believe it will be essential for driving the success of future campaigns,' said Alex Collmer, CEO, Vidmob. 'While other tools on the market can provide tags, The Aperture delivers an additional layer of marketing context and creative intelligence that can help marketers harness the power of creativity,' he added. Tom Saunter, SVP, Global Head of New Solutions at WPP Media , said, 'At WPP Media, as experts in creative intelligence, our analyst teams have historically combined data from multiple AI sources to generate the insights we need – but the latest evolution of Vidmob's Aperture changes that.' 'Its expanded taxonomy brings a new level of depth and structure, making it the most complete creative dataset we've worked with. It offers a richer palette for creative understanding, enhances explainability of media performance, and integrates seamlessly with the advanced AI scoring and analytics systems we're activating for WPP clients.' The Aperture framework has been shaped by input from a broad group of partners and customers. Vidmob recently collaborated with key partners to refine and expand the system to 22 categories aimed at improving decision-making across the platform. These additions help identify insights, set brand-aligned benchmarks, and support GenAI-driven creative work, forming a strong foundation for more efficient and informed content production at scale. ALSO READ: HubSpot to Acquire Frame AI The Martechvibe team works with a staff of in-house writers and industry experts. View More Locala's omnichannel advertising platform leverages granular insights and cutting-edge AI to help marketers plan, activate, and measure campaigns that are personalised to the local consumer. 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VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud features Adobe Campaign, enabling marketers to synchronise their customer data from various channels for omnichannel marketing. By leveraging its omnichannel integration with Adobe Journey Optimiser, brands can build multi-step journeys, campaigns, and personalised real-time moments that follow their customers across channels. VISIT WEBSITE ActiveCampaign is an intelligent multichannel marketing automation platform that enables marketers to seamlessly connect campaigns across the channels that matter most to them. It helps enterprises streamline personalised marketing, transactional emails, and one-to-one CRM interactions throughout the customer lifecycle. VISIT WEBSITE UiPath offers a comprehensive AI-powered robotic automation platform, enabling marketers to streamline recurring functions, such as lead automation and customer engagement. Utilising its capabilities, marketers can personalise and automate customer interactions, depending on their needs and preferences. VISIT WEBSITE SAP is a composable marketing automation technology provider, offering SAP Intelligent RPA solutions to automate repetitive, rules-based business processes, including marketing and sales. Using its tech stack, marketers can automatically extract product data from manufacturers' websites, update online inventory and import website and email sales. VISIT WEBSITE Microsoft offers Power Automate, a low-code and AI-powered RPA software that helps marketers streamline tasks like lead management, email campaigns, social media management, data analysis, content publishing, and customer feedback. Leveraging its capabilities, businesses can automate repetitive tasks, such as lead capture and email marketing workflows. VISIT WEBSITE IBM offers AI-powered Robotic Process Automation capabilities for CRM and marketing functions. It enables users to automate workflows with integrated OCR and intelligent chatbots, distribute work across multiple bots without human interventions and manage emails via low-code authoring tools. VISIT WEBSITE Hyland offers an AI-powered comprehensive robotic automation software suite, enabling marketers' teams to automate their campaigns. Its Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology allows businesses to automate repetitive marketing functions, such as execution of targeted and personalised strategies in near real-time. VISIT WEBSITE Datamatics is an intelligent automation platform, offering TruBot RPA designer, a low-code bot design tool for marketing teams to create customised bots quickly. It provides 500 pre-built components, enabling low-code design and rapid deployment capabilities with drag-and-drop options. VISIT WEBSITE Automation Anywhere offers Automation Success Platform powered by Vertex AI, enabling enterprises to develop a cloud-based digital workforce at scale. Leveraging its bots, ML, and AI technologies, marketers can automate their marketing and sales processes. One of its popular offerings is Automation Co-Pilot, a genAI-powered assistant that empowers businesses to create and summarise content. VISIT WEBSITE Appian is a global technology provider, delivering end-to-end process automation with RPA, AI, IDP and API integrations. Utilising the readily available APIs of this low-code platform, teams can create a series of connected digital business applications including customer management and marketing. VISIT WEBSITE Powered by Zoho Corporation, Zoho Analytics enables marketers to track all critical metrics in a single platform to enhance marketing outcomes. The company offers 75 pre-built data visualisation reports and dashboards on marketing performance for collaborative analysis. With its AI-powered assistant, marketers can generate automated insights, predict future trends, and configure smart alerts. 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Furthermore, its ad previewer lets marketing teams preview video, display and native ads on desktop or mobile across 500+ publishers, covering 23 verticals. VISIT WEBSITE Rakuten is a global affiliate ad technology company, enabling advertisers to optimise their marketing strategies with data-driven insights. It offers AI-powered forecasting and benchmarking capabilities and dynamic multi-touch commissioning tools, allowing advertisers to customise their campaigns. It also supports first-party data collection integrations for both B2B and B2C marketers. VISIT WEBSITE Nielsen offers Nielsen Ad Intel, a cross-platform advertising intelligence platform with actionable insights to identify prospects, analyse brand strategies and learn from past advertising campaigns. It offers various advertising intelligence features such as ad spend monitoring, competitive benchmarking, global competitive insights and expert data harmonisation. 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Some of its popular feedback management software capabilities include Sense360 for analysing consumer spending, Medallia Video to automatically extract meaningful insights from customer's feedbacks and Agile Research for creating branded surveys in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE Zeotap lets brands integrate, unify, segment and orchestrate customer data, fostering a cookieless future. It offers a 'Non-Customer Entity Data' feature that helps marketers to integrate both customer and non-customer entity data. VISIT WEBSITE Twilio provides, Twilio Segment, an AI-powered CDP, enabling marketers to streamline their personalised customer engagement journeys. It brings together clean, consented customer data for real-time insights with 450+ pre-built connectors. VISIT WEBSITE Syntasa provides data-ready CDP capabilities, equipping marketers with essential tools to prepare their customer data. It offers real-time sentiment analytics capabilities, helping enterprises derive behavioural insights from unified user profiles to foster hyper-personalised experiences. VISIT WEBSITE SAP is a company-wide customer data management platform, helping marketers improve engagement, conversion, and retention. It offers a genAI-powered data model, enabling enterprises to unify their B2B and B2C customers' profiles to reach their personalisation goals. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle is a global database management company, providing CDP solutions, under its flagship product: Oracle Unity. Its AI-powered models enable marketers to create hyper-personsalised campaigns with predictive insights by streamlining real-time customer data from heterogeneous sources. VISIT WEBSITE Growthloop is a composable CDP platform, allowing marketing and sales team to action their data at scale. It offers GrowthLoop Audience Builder, enabling marketers to initiate their lead generation functions. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a real-time CDP, letting users create high-value audience segments for B2C and B2B use cases across their marketing funnel. It follows a cookieless marketing approach to automatically unify customer data across various online and offline channels in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE ActionIQ is a composable CDP platform that offers audience segmentation, acquisition marketing, and Customer 360 capabilities. It integrates analytical tools, enabling marketers to collect and analyse their first-party customer data at scale. VISIT WEBSITE Zoho CRM leverages automation and comprehensive analytics to empower any sales team, fostering stronger customer loyalty. Ideal for both small businesses and enterprises, this software enables enhanced productivity and tailored solutions through predictive intelligence. VISIT WEBSITE Zendesk offers Zendesk Sell, an easy-to-deploy CRM platform that is simple to deploy and navigate, catering to businesses of any scale. Its mobile-friendly Sell app has the functionalities of geolocation, helping sales and marketing teams. Offering an all-in-one CRM platform, organisations can implement use cases like prospecting, engagement, lead generation and communication capabilities. VISIT WEBSITE SugarCRM is a global CRM software provider, helping marketing, sales, and service teams improve efficiency through automation, data, and intelligence in near real-time. It offers Sugar Market, an all-in-one marketing automation platform that helps marketers to automate their campaign with higher ROI. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce is a one-stop sales and support CRM software that regularly updates customer records, tracks emails and calls, and creates organised support processes for quicker customer responses. Its simple and scalable infrastructure is ideal for businesses of all sizes. VISIT WEBSITE Pipedrive stands out with its emphasis on automation, tailorability, and seamless integration. Purposefully built to enhance the efficiency and productivity of sales professionals, this CRM solution has an intuitive setup and robust capabilities. It facilitates lead generation, comprehensive sales analytics, and seamless business expansion. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle NetSuite CRM, a component of Oracle's business software suite, is for all midsize and booming businesses that want a comprehensive, integrated CRM solution with ERP capabilities. Using it, customers and partners can directly interact with the platform, freeing the additional work load for their sales team. VISIT WEBSITE Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales represents a robust cloud-based CRM solution brimming with features such as pipeline assessment, relationship analytics, and conversational intelligence. It utilises AI-powered insights to provide actionable intelligence via predictive analytics, lead scoring and sentiment analysis. VISIT WEBSITE Less Annoying is a CRM software that utilises a straightforward search feature within its contact management system, making it easy to track contacts. It is ideal for small-sized businesses and offers a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface. VISIT WEBSITE Insightly offers CRM software solutions for enterprises looking to understand their audience data across various marketing functions. It integrates seamlessly with third-party apps, streamlining workflow automation, including bulk emailing and report generation. VISIT WEBSITE HubSpot's sleek dashboard with consolidated CRM tools simplify complex customer data, further transforming it into meaningful insights. Complementing typical CRM functionalities, HubSpot provides tailored options, including conversation intelligence and email monitoring. VISIT WEBSITE Apptivo delivers adaptable and web-based CRM solutions, enabling marketing and sales teams to streamline all customer service requirements across various devices and browsers. Despite its focused feature set, it encompasses over 65 interconnected applications alongside a robust sales pipeline management tool, ensuring efficient tracking of potential leads without any downtime. VISIT WEBSITE Sitecore offers composable cloud solutions with its flagship products, Sitecore Experience Platform(XP) and Sitecore Experience Manager (XM). They help marketers to overcome scalability challenges. Some of its features include intuitive visual editing, headless delivery, marketing automation, scalable personalisation, data and machine learning capabilities. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce Experience Cloud is a platform that helps enterprises link clients, partners, and employees to securely exchange information and documents. Built on its Customer 360 platform, Salesforce's DXP ensures seamless integration with any solution in the Salesforce ecosystem. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of platform-based marketing automation solutions for personalised B2B and B2C automation campaigns. Some of its featured products are Eloqua Marketing Automation, CrowdTwist Loyalty and Engagement, and Unity Customer Data Platform. VISIT WEBSITE Optimizely is a digital experience platform (DXP) provider that offers Optimizely One, an easy-to-use and fully integrated suite. It provides a single, unified workflow with thoughtfully embedded AI and machine-learning algorithms, accelerating work across the entire marketing lifecycle. VISIT WEBSITE OpenText offers a cloud-native, scalable platform for enterprises to streamline their marketing functions. It provides fully composable content management, digital asset management, creative workflows, personalisation, targeting and customer data technologies in one place, ensuring a holistic approach to B2B, B2E and B2C experiences. VISIT WEBSITE Neptune DXP is a PaaS(Platform-as-a-Service) provider, helping marketing teams build custom apps based on modular, reusable application building blocks. The company offers flexible environments to businesses across different verticals, further providing personalised digital solutions at scale. VISIT WEBSITE Magnolia is a composable DXP that comes with no-code connector packs and low-code micro-frameworks for third-party integrations. It also offers an open-source version alongside its commercial plans enabling enterprises to build tailored use cases. VISIT WEBSITE Liferay DXP helps marketers deliver personalised and connected digital experiences across a broad range of channels, including customer portals, websites, intranets, mobile apps, and connected devices. It offers intuitive CMS, user analytics, and site management tools that businesses need to launch, test and optimise digital experiences for faster go-to-market. VISIT WEBSITE Powered by IBM Consulting, IBM iX offers a composable DXP, providing a comprehensive solution to make enterprises' systems future-ready. Utilising its data-driven insights and intelligent workflows, marketers can design and deliver human-centred experiences across the customer lifecycle. VISIT WEBSITE HCL Digital Experience (DX), forms part of a wider HCL Customer Experience (CX) product portfolio, offering core capabilities such as content management, DAM, CDP called Signals, and low-code application development. It provides services in government, life sciences, insurance, financial services, and other verticals. VISIT WEBSITE Contentstack is a headless CMS and Composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solution provider that helps marketers gain a competitive edge. It recently launched into Google Cloud Marketplace, and is also available on Microsoft Azure and AWS. It seamlessly enables mid-market brands to adopt its omnichannel campaign engine to drive higher conversions and sales. VISIT WEBSITE Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud provides businesses an edge with its modular capabilities: Content Management System (CMS), Discovery features for search and merchandising optimisation, and Engagement tools such as Customer Data Platforms (CDP) for personalisation and analytics. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a comprehensive set of services specifically designed to address the day-to-day requirements for personalised customer experience at scale. Its platform helps manage different digital content and assets to improve customer satisfaction. Some of its products include Adobe Gen Studio, Experience Manager Sites, Real-time CDP, and Marketo Engage. VISIT WEBSITE Acquia offers DXP solutions, comprising of two main elements: Acquia Drupal Cloud and Acquia Marketing Cloud. It can be accessed in both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) with additional components such as Site Factory for multisite management, digital asset management (DAM), CDP, personalisation, and Campaign Studio. VISIT WEBSITE
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year
Content on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram will attract more advertising income this year than content from traditional media companies, according to research, marking a 'huge cultural shift' for the media world. User-generated material – videos, podcasts and posts put together by individual creators – will eclipse the ad revenue attracted by professional media produced by TV networks, cinemas and news companies, the analysis found. It comes alongside a sharp increase in the advertising income attracted by creator-generated content amid a huge global change in viewing habits and media consumption. Content creators are expected to see their revenue through ads, brand deals and sponsorships increase by 20% this year, according to an assessment by WPP Media. It is expected to more than double to $376.6bn (£278.3bn) by 2030. 'In 2025, for the first time, more than half of content-driven advertising revenue will come from user-generated platforms and content rather than professionally produced content,' the analysis states. In reality, the distinction between user-generated content and professional production is blurred. Many content creators use high quality production and WPP Media acknowledged they can often cooperate and overlap with traditional media platforms. However, the findings bring home the rapid change that global media is experiencing as users turn to digital platforms, via smartphones. The report said the shift was 'profoundly impacting' the media world. 'Although individual creators often rely on professional media channels as source material, the idiosyncratic takes and views mean that any individual's media diet is likely increasingly personalised, and potentially focused around a particular topic or point of view,' the report states. 'Those audiences may come to view their purchase decisions as extensions of those belief systems and views as well, more so than in previous eras where brand messages more often appeared in professionally produced content that may have been regulated for objectiveness and fact-based commentary.' Senior industry figures from across television, podcasting and media have told the Guardian that YouTube in particular has become the central plumbing of the media world, taking a share of ad revenue for the content it hosts. Traditional media has felt increasingly under pressure to upload its content to the platform. The profound shifts have also ensured that media traditionally reliant on advertising has been battling to hold on to that income, as well as cutting costs elsewhere. The UK has recently seen ITV initiate a major shake up of its daytime television programming, with hundreds of jobs at risk. Channel 4 has announced controversial plans to create an in-house studio to find new sources of income. The broadcaster has also bet big on having its content on TikTok and YouTube as it attempts to gain more younger viewers. Douglas McCabe, chief executive of Enders Analysis, said the changes in media consumption towards online platforms represented 'a huge cultural shift in a short period of time'. 'Advertising revenue has followed that pattern,' he said. 'With [online search] referral traffic declining, the journalism sector has a huge battle on its hands,' he said. 'Media will have to communicate the benefits of their methods and missions with a forceful clarity.' In another sign of the sea change taking place, just five companies accounted for 54% of all revenues last year – Google, Meta, the TikTok owner ByteDance, Amazon and Chinese e-commerce outlet Alibaba. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
French ad giant threatens to sue British rival over ‘falsehoods'
A French advertising giant has threatened to sue WPP after accusing the British company of spreading 'falsehoods' about its business. The Telegraph has learnt that Publicis Groupe wrote to Mark Read, the WPP chief executive, last week threatening legal action in an escalating row over advertising quality. One source described the letter, which was also sent to Philip Jansen, the WPP chairman, and Brian Lesser, the WPP Media boss, as 'aggressive'. It was sent days before WPP lost its $1.7bn (£1.3bn) Mars contract to Publicis and before the London advertising giant announced Mr Read would step down as chief executive at the end of the year. The row relates to a research report commissioned by WPP that accused Epsilon, a marketing technology company owned by Publicis, of selling low-quality advertising spots. The report, which WPP distributed among clients, including Mars, found that more than a quarter of 500,000 sample impressions came from so-called 'made for advertising sites', which are built primarily to drive advertising clicks. The research, first reported by Ad Age, prompted a furious response from Publicis, which branded the results 'fake'. The company said: 'We don't normally respond to [WPP's] desperate moves, as it doesn't help our industry ... But in the face of such obvious falsehoods, we can't stay silent. 'WPP continues to claim innovation, this time by inventing their own 'audits' of their competitors. They're doing it in a domain where they've recently excelled – throwing mud at their peers rather than focusing on their clients and their people.' WPP said: 'WPP Media is committed to quality and accuracy in everything we do. Our analysis was used to brief client leaders in response to client questions. 'We used a robust methodology grounded in established industry principles and designed to provide an objective assessment of inventory quality. We stand by the integrity of our methods and the findings presented.' WPP and Publicis both declined to comment on the letter. The row underscores the increasingly bitter rivalry between the two groups as the advertising industry grapples with an uncertain future in an era dominated by technology giants such as Meta and Google, as well as the rise of artificial intelligence. Tom Denford, the chief executive of ID Comms, said the row was 'indicative of the state of the industry and the pressure on these organisations'. Paris-based Publicis, which owns agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, last year overtook WPP as the world's largest advertising company by revenues. Two other major advertising groups – Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group – have agreed to merge in a $30bn deal that will create a major new player in the market. WPP on Monday confirmed that Mr Read will step down at the end of the year after more than three decades in the business. The announcement came amid growing scrutiny over client losses, though sources close to Mr Read said he wanted to announce his departure ahead of Cannes Lions, the annual industry conference that begins next week.
