Innovation Keeps the Ad Marketing Moving KEY FINDINGS In the wake of a historically strong 2021, U.S. media owner’s advertising revenues grew by +11% to $151 billion in the first half of 2022, based on financial reports. Media channel performance varied greatly in the first half with strong revenue growth in out-of-home (+30%), and robust

Daryl Lee to Lead McCann Worldgroup and Eileen Kiernan to Lead IPG Mediabrands Bill Kolb Moves to Chairman Role at McCann Worldgroup Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) announced today senior leadership changes that will see a number of outstanding, tenured executives assume significant new responsibilities within the holding company. At McCann Worldgroup, Daryl Lee, previously the Global CEO of

‘We See You’ social media push aims to attract talent from non-traditional and underrepresented backgrounds Mediabrands is launching a talent recruitment campaign for a new client: Mediabrands. The Interpublic Group of Cos. network is taking a consumer marketing-style approach, using social media and digital video, in an effort to lure talent from non-advertising fields and

Maex and Martin both bring deep performance and analytics expertise as Mediabrands positions all units to better help clients drive marketing transformation through data IPG Mediabrands named performance marketing expert Dimitri Maex as Global CEO of Initiative, its full-service global brand, and appointed Jarrod Martin, an experienced data and analytics leader, as Global CEO of

Comscore, iSpot and VideoAmp will measure identical campaigns as Discovery merger looms WarnerMedia teamed up with IPG Mediabrands to test alternative measurements across the same campaigns, in one of the last announcements the company is expected to make ahead of its imminent merger with Discovery. Top line The partnership is in collaboration with Comscore, iSpot

The partnership will kick off later this month with a Media Immersion Day event, which is open to all HBCU students and recent grads. A brand-new initiative between IPG Mediabrands and HBCU 20×20 is gearing up to help students get into media-based careers. The partnership was announced yesterday, and it’s centered on building a “pipeline” between IPG Mediabrands and various HBCUs. It’ll officially kick

A new trending insights dashboard will help the agency group’s clients get the jump on trends Reddit reached its first ever global enterprise partnership agreement, with IPG Mediabrands. The companies said the partnership—which will be led by Reddit’s global agency development team—will benefit clients of Mediabrands agencies and help Reddit to bolster its global advertising business. Reddit

The agency’s clients tripled their spend in Black-owned media channels since last spring IPG Mediabrands’ clients spending with Black-owned media properties nearly tripled since the company held its first equity upfront last year, it announced today. The agency plans to host its second equity upfront in April to bring attention to Black-owned and other BIPOC media

The creative leader spent over 10 years at Ogilvy IPG’s Mediabrands Content Studio (MBCS) has named Alfonso Marian its new chief executive and head creative. Marian comes from Ogilvy, where he was chairman of Ogilvy Spain and co-chief creative officer of Ogilvy New York. The company’s move and the leadership changes come as its parent