What is happening to the holding companies and the agency model, and what it means for the people who buy from them.
Agencies
Oct 8, 2026
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7 min read
Stagwell has put its name on a global media network. WPP is losing its CFO and creative chief. Opposite sides of the same valley, and only one chose to be there.
Platforms
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Sep 24, 2026
5 min read
What a 19th-century tornado forecaster teaches about retail media's 94% accuracy claim
Sep 17, 2026
6 min read
Clients asked agencies for exclusivity. What they always got was conflict management, on a ladder.
Sep 14, 2026
The triple bid was built to buy judgement before the point of no return. That point has moved.
Sep 10, 2026
Amazon, Meta and WPP are being sued over advertiser money. The advertiser isn't suing.
Aug 23, 2026
Omnicom quietly moved the people who built Omni to a contractor. The decision is right. The lesson is elsewhere.
Aug 17, 2026
Dentsu is sorting its international markets without sentiment. Napoleon's surgeon would ask about the speed.
Aug 13, 2026
Why outcome-based agency pricing stays rare
Aug 7, 2026
WPP's biggest rally since 1995, earned by a half-year in which everything fell more slowly
Aug 3, 2026
Stagwell reported a record quarter and a net loss on the same day. The explanation is twenty pages deep.
Jul 29, 2026
How to read a holding-company growth number and know what it is actually made of
Jul 27, 2026
What the new-business league tables count, what they can't see, and why the same bank shrugged
Jul 9, 2026
A life sentence in Shanghai, a lawsuit in New York, and the advertisers missing from both courtrooms
Jul 6, 2026
WPP published five trust principles at Cannes. Not one of them costs the company anything.
Jun 28, 2026
What it means when Cannes and the stock market disagree about the same company
Jun 15, 2026
The holding companies gave away the half of the work that survives, and charged for the half that doesn't
Jun 8, 2026
Two holding companies, two $2bn cheques, and why the market paid for the wrong one
May 17, 2026
Publicis just bought the industry's neutral data pipes. Neutrality was the point, and that is the gambit.
May 14, 2026
Three CEO pay packages in one week, funded by one source that was never mentioned: the client
Apr 30, 2026
Q1 earnings showed which holding companies chose to escape the middle, and which are settling into it
Apr 13, 2026
WPP is exploring a sale of Burson. In Monopoly terms it has stopped playing to build and started playing to survive.
Apr 8, 2026
Why WPP's missing data asset is exactly what Wendy's was looking for
Apr 6, 2026
Why Publicis's $500 million sports acquisition is architecture, not deal-making
Leadership
Mar 30, 2026
8 min read
What the holding-company job cuts feel like from the kitchen table, and what actually helps
Mar 26, 2026
The Trade Desk audit looks like a fee dispute. It is a rehearsal for a much bigger fight.
