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Advertising in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the advertising business: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Account moves, agency and holdco shakeups, campaigns, and the media and measurement shifts changing how brands buy attention. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For agencies, brands and the media shops between them. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.

  1. 21h ago

    The CEO Pitches the Agency

    PepsiCo CEO defends Publicis media move to investors. Digiday reports PepsiCo chief Ramon Laguarta used an investor appearance to back the handover of the company's global media account to Publicis Groupe, a rare public read on what a buy-side client values in a global review. (Digiday, Digiday) WPP names McCann's Tyler Turnbull to lead WPP Creative. Per storyboard18.com and Campaign Brief Asia, WPP has appointed McCann global CEO Tyler Turnbull as CEO of WPP Creative from early 2027, succeeding Jon Cook. (storyboard18.com, Campaign Brief Asia) Havas restructures UK and Ireland under single leader. MediaPost reports Havas has reorganized its UK-Ireland operation and named Affleck to run it, consolidating media, creative, data, technology, PR, consulting and customer experience. (MediaPost) Adweek: Spectrum marketing and commercial chiefs to exit. Adweek reports, citing a leaked internal memo, that Spectrum CMO Sharon Peters and chief commercial officer Adam Ray will depart at the end of the year, unconfirmed by the company. (Adweek) Also moving today: Meta (NASDAQ: META) Bans ByteDance And TikTok Ads Across Its Platforms In Multiple Countries (Foreign Policy Journal, Ubergizmo, The Times of India) Loeries announces second-night winners in Cape Town (The Media Online) WPP appoints Jessica Farrell as ANZ Chief People Officer (Mediaweek, Mumbrella) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  2. 1d ago

    WPP names its creative chief, Meta cuts off ByteDance

    WPP names Tyler Turnbull CEO of WPP Creative. McCann's global chief takes over the consolidated creative unit in early 2027, giving clients and staff a named leader to plan against. (Indian Television Dot Com, Campaign India, Mumbrella) Meta bars ByteDance from advertising in seven markets. Per Bloomberg, Meta has closed paid access to TikTok's parent in the US and six other countries, removing a channel from ByteDance's media mix. (Music Business Worldwide, Yahoo! Finance, idnfinancials.com) Dentsu: 76% of CMOs say AI output outpaces results. Dentsu's survey puts a number on a client-side complaint agencies now have to answer for on AI-assisted production. (Brand Spur) OpenAI hires to sell ChatGPT ads through agencies. An Agency Partner job listing suggests OpenAI wants ChatGPT inventory briefed as a standing line item rather than sold direct only. (Adweek) Also moving today: Pitch update: Raymond, British Council, Mahyco International, and more (Campaign India) Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain's next great directors - AOL (AOL.com, The Guardian) Josy Paul elevated to Chairman and Group Chief Creative Officer at BBDO India (Indian Television Dot Com, storyboard18.com) Why Brands Are Getting Creator Ads At Influencer Prices (Forbes) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  3. 4d ago

    WPP Taps McCann's Turnbull for Creative

    Turnbull Leaves McCann for WPP Creative Global CEO Role. Adweek reports Tyler Turnbull is exiting McCann to become global CEO of WPP Creative, less than a year after taking the McCann top job. (Adweek, More About Advertising, storyboard18.com) Askinasi to Lead Skydance Ad Sales as WBD Leaders Exit. Adweek reports Jay Askinasi will head ad sales for the combined Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery business, with WBD's ad leaders departing after the merger. (Adweek) Agencies Pitch Agentic Media, Address Client Control Concerns. Digiday reports agentic media tools are now standard in agency pitch decks, pushing the conversation toward guardrails as clients weigh handing over buying decisions. (Digiday, Digiday) Ad Tech Vendors Describe Preparations for iOS 27 Changes. AdExchanger reports the programmatic ecosystem used Advertising Week New York to lay out how it expects targeting and measurement to adapt to Apple's iOS 27 release. (AdExchanger) Also moving today: Sociable: Meta introduces new AI-powered tools at Advertising Week (Marketing Dive) Social Media Food Marketing Collides With Reality; Horizon Global Struggles To Gain Traction (AdExchanger) At AWNY and Jupiter Fest, Future of Content, Agentic Ads, Open Web Anxieties Steal the Show (Adweek) Discord steps up play for mobile advertisers with rewarded video product (Marketing Dive) NHL taps Adobe as creative, marketing and AI partner (Marketing Dive) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  4. 5d ago

    Apple's Programmatic Block Widens

    Apple's iOS 27 Blocks Programmatic Data Vendors. AdExchanger reports Apple's iOS 27 update has blocked several identity and data vendors, with the list set to widen, putting iOS audience segments, measurement tags and ID-based deals in question. (AdExchanger) Job-Posting Index Shows WPP Media Hiring Down 41%. Third-party job-posting data cited by Mediaweek puts WPP Media's Australia and New Zealand hiring down 41% last quarter while Publicis Groupe tops the index, a hiring-side read on regional agency demand. (Mediaweek) OpenAI And Anthropic Reported Courting Smaller Advertisers. MediaPost reports OpenAI and Anthropic are supporting smaller brands and agencies, echoing the route earlier platforms took before building large ad businesses, though no comparable ad revenue is confirmed. (MediaPost) Brands Report Cost Efficiencies From Longer Creator Deals. Marketers from Chili's, Disney and Alaska Airlines told Advertising Week that deeper, longer-term creator arrangements are producing cost efficiencies and results, figures undisclosed. (Marketing Dive) Also moving today: CNN’s Mark Thompson and CBS News’ Bari Weiss Named to Skydance Leadership Team (Adweek, Superhits 97.9 Terre Haute, IN, MyrtleBeachOnline) CMOs see their internal influence rising. Has it come at a cost? (Marketing Dive) From influencers to AI, here’s what Gen Alpha thinks about your brand (Digiday) How Liquid Death is building an AI-native marketing organization (Marketing Dive) Why Panda Express is embracing an ‘always-on’ gaming strategy (Marketing Dive) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  5. 6d ago

    Stagwell Retires Assembly, Nutella Buys Two Super Bowl Spots

    Stagwell Retires Assembly, Launches Stagwell Media. Adweek reports Stagwell is folding its Assembly media brand into a new agency built on the company's "Stagwell Machine" operating system, a signal of how media capability gets packaged for the next round of client reviews. (Adweek) Monks Says AI Agents Run Unsupervised for Days. Digiday reports S4 Capital's digital agency now funds compute and headcount from one pot, describing a staffing and pricing model the wider sector has not confirmed at scale. (Digiday) Nutella Books Two Super Bowl Spots for 2027. Marketing Dive and Adweek report Ferrero will air two Nutella commercials in next year's game as part of a stated $50 million 2027 marketing plan, an early read on national inventory demand. (Marketing Dive, Adweek) SAMY Acquires Influencer Agency Get Engaged. Adweek reports the cash-and-equity deal, described as low nine figures, gives the global social agency a U.S. base with clients including DoorDash, Sephora and Raising Cane's. (Adweek) Also moving today: Kyndryl and WPP Expand Strategic Partnership to Drive Enterprise Transformation, Marketing Growth and Joint Go-to-Market Innovation (FinanzNachrichten.de) 65% OF CONSUMERS ARE AVOIDING ADS. HERE'S HOW MARKETERS CAN WIN BACK THEIR ATTENTION (CNHI News, Digiday, Digiday) CMOs in a ‘pressure cooker’ as tenure shrinks, demands multiply: study (Marketing Dive) Morning Brew Acquires Express Checkout in Latest Creator Play (Adweek) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  6. Oct 6

    VML's CEO Exits, Google's Remedies Land

    Jon Cook to exit VML after three decades. WPP says its global CEO of VML will hand over to Eric Campbell in March 2027, putting its largest creative network under new leadership. (Mumbrella, Mediaweek, More About Advertising) Google and DOJ file ad tech remedy proposals. The rival filings set the outer bounds of what the court could order, from conduct rules to divesting Google's exchange, the first concrete read for agencies and publishers. (AdExchanger) Midterm political spending projected at $11.6 billion. Digiday reports a record political ad outlay this cycle, competing with brand advertisers for the same local and connected-TV inventory through November. (Digiday) TikTok plans to sell ad inventory off-platform. Digiday reports TikTok wants a larger share of media budgets by selling inventory beyond its own app, which would set it against Google's and Meta's off-platform networks. (Digiday, Marketing Dive, Adweek) Also moving today: Digiday Media Agency Report 2026: How agencies adapt to a media landscape shaped by AI and creators (Digiday, Digiday) ‘We’re all going to live with uncertainty forever’: Advertising Week New York opens amid industry rebuild (Digiday) Dentsu and incumbent Wavemaker among finalists in Pernod Ricard India's media agency review for its over Rs 800 crore account (storyboard18.com) Future of Marketing Briefing: Agency fees in creator deals are the next transparency headache for marketers (Digiday) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  7. Oct 2

    Safari Goes Dark for The Trade Desk

    The Trade Desk Can't Serve Safari Ads On iOS 27. AdExchanger reports The Trade Desk is unable to deliver ads to Safari on Apple's iOS 27, leaving buyers with delivery gaps on updated devices. (AdExchanger) Advertising Week Reweights Agenda Toward Creators. Marketing Dive reports Advertising Week is leaning into creator topics and a reported $100 million bid in creator deals to stand out in a crowded events calendar. (Marketing Dive) Paramount Skydance And Warner Bros. Discovery Name Merger Closing Date. The two companies announced an anticipated closing date for their merger, which would consolidate CBS, Paramount+, HBO Max, CNN and the Warner cable networks under one seller. (Paramount Skydance) Agencies Argue Against Owning Agentic AI Tools Or Client Data. AdExchanger reports agencies building custom agentic AI tools for brand clients say they should own neither the tools nor the underlying data, reframing years of tech-stack competition. (AdExchanger) Also moving today: Mark Penn: 'We're it in terms of a fourth alternative' (The Media Leader - News analysis, opinion and insight for media and advertising professionals) Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré on principal media buying, Uncommon's freedom and his role in new biz (Campaign India) CMOs must rethink entry-level talent as AI alters marketing needs: Gartner (Marketing Dive) Cava hires Dr. Squatch marketer as CMO to build on growth (Marketing Dive) Sindhuja Rai to leave WPP Media (Campaign India) Amazon wants to own the long game in ad measurement (Digiday, Digiday) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

  8. Oct 1

    Salesforce Pays $2B for AI Customer Research

    Salesforce to acquire AI research platform Listen Labs. Salesforce signed a definitive agreement for the San Francisco customer-research platform in a deal reported at about $2 billion, putting a price on qualitative insight as an input to AI agents. (Tech Times, Research Live, Market Screener) BBDO New York CEO and chief creative officer to depart. Adweek reports Emma Armstrong and Michael Aimette are leaving BBDO New York, the first senior network exits clients can tie to the Omnicom-IPG combination. (Adweek) Omnicom shifts more global ad production to India. Mint reports Omnicom Production is scaling content work in India as AI lowers production costs, a staffing and margin choice rivals will be asked about. (mint) WPP Australia and NZ revenue down $60m on account losses. Filings with Australia's corporate regulator put a figure on creative account churn at WPP's local agencies, per Mumbrella. (Mumbrella) Also moving today: WPP Media appoints Laura Ryan as Chief Media Officer (storyboard18.com, Indian Television Dot Com, More About Advertising) Horizon's Bob Lord Takes Aim at Holdcos' FTE Pricing Models: 'It's the Old System' (Adweek) The Rundown: Average CMO tenure has shrunk by over a third in 16 years (Digiday) Dentsu is making a big Hollywood bet with 'Angry Birds 3' -- and beyond (Business Insider) Get Advertising in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://advertisinginfive.com

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Advertising in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the advertising business: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Account moves, agency and holdco shakeups, campaigns, and the media and measurement shifts changing how brands buy attention. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For agencies, brands and the media shops between them. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.

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