WPP Reports Solid Growth for 2016 but Predicts Slower 2017


WPP’s fourth-quarter earnings were slow, but CEO Martin Sorrell presented a more positive picture for the full-year 2016 — despite continued reference to price pressures.

Like-for-like revenues (excluding acquisitions) were up 0.5% in the fourth quarter, compared with 3.6% at rival Omnicom and 5.3% at Interpublic.

Across the year, however, WPP’s like-for-like revenues were up 3%, with overall revenues up 3.7% at $19.4 billion. Profits before tax were up 7.2% to $1.8 billion, stripping out the effects of exchange rate fluctuations.

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Critic's Notebook: The Battle Over Your Political Bubble

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Friday Morning Stir

-TBWAStockholm launched this “Paul’s Journey” spot celebrating equality for Swedish Railways.

-HP consolidated its media account with Omnicom agency PHD.

-WPP’s 2016 was a “record year,” with net profits jumping 20.6 percent.

-Yet WPP also reportedly had its “biggest drop since the financial crisis” with slowed growth last quarter and starting 2017 in the U.S. and North America.

-Epic Games, Chevy and The Mill teamed up for the CG-fueled “The Human Race.”

-M&C Saatchi worldwide CEO Moray MacLennan says “It’s the age of the independent.”

-WPP warned against agencies offering clients up-front discounts “as an inducement to renew contracts.”

-MIT lists ten biggest tech breakthroughs, fails to include VR or Spectacles.

Accountability and Trust in the Ad Ecosystem: How Platforms Can Help


The ad ecosystem has always been built on a sense of “cautious trust.” This created a system where platforms largely operated in silos and the information shared with advertisers — whether it be campaign, inventory or audience data — was guarded. However, that system began to fall apart last year.

Here’s why.

Ad fraud and viewability. Last year, a wave of endemic bot fraud cheated advertisers of more than $7 billion dollars. Similarly, viewability — the degree in which an end-user actually sees an ad — is a growing concern. Google has said that nearly 60% of its ads are not seen. And viewability can vary wildly among individual media sellers.

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Elon Musk Agrees to Hold Contest for Fan-Made Tesla Ads, at the Urging of a Fifth Grader

Elon Musk is well aware that Tesla’s superfans love to make unauthorized commercials for the brand, given that Tesla doesn’t make its own (and, given the power of word of mouth, doesn’t really need to). But it has taken a fifth-grade girl to convince him to actually run a fan-made ad. “Dear Elon Musk, I’m…

Accountability and Trust in the Ad Ecosystem: How Platforms Can Help


The ad ecosystem has always been built on a sense of “cautious trust.” This created a system where platforms largely operated in silos and the information shared with advertisers — whether it be campaign, inventory or audience data — was guarded. However, that system began to fall apart last year.

Here’s why.

Ad fraud and viewability. Last year, a wave of endemic bot fraud cheated advertisers of more than $7 billion dollars. Similarly, viewability — the degree in which an end-user actually sees an ad — is a growing concern. Google has said that nearly 60% of its ads are not seen. And viewability can vary wildly among individual media sellers.

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NBC Universal Invests $500 Million in Snapchat at IPO


NBC Universal invested $500 million in Snap Inc. on Thursday as part of the social-media company’s initial public offering.

“This is a significant milestone in our growing partnership with Snap, and we look forward to participating in Snap’s success as an investor and continuing to work closely with them for years to come,” NBCU CEO Steve Burke said in a note to employees on Friday.

NBCU bought shares of Snap at $17 a share before they traded on the open market. After trading open, shares soared to $25 a share.

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Audi: Happy New Year Bob!

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Port-Enhanced Laptop Cases – The 'BOOST' MacBook Case Protects and Enhances the Laptop (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The latest MacBook is loved for its compact design and loathed for its lack of ports, so the ‘BOOST’ MacBook case is intended to help add additional functionality while also working to…

Five Takeaways From Mobile World Congress 2017


If brand marketers were looking for innovation and excitement at Mobile World Congress, they might have been disappointed. This year was all about evolution, and the big reveals at the show reflected that.

Yes, there were iterative improvements in handset performance, but the underlying theme was how mobile is increasingly enmeshed in our lives, at home, in the car and in industry.

Here are five impressions from four days in Barcelona:

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Jeff Bezos também quer mandar gente pra Lua, mas pra ficar

Enquanto Elon Musk e sua SpaceX planejam a primeira viagem paga e tripulada em torno da Lua, Jeff Bezos e sua companhia de desenvolvimento espacial Blue Origin também querem entrar com mais força na exploração do espaço. O CEO da Amazon enviou para a NASA uma proposta que inclui criar uma base no satélite natural […]

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This Chevrolet Ad Offers a Glimpse of the Remarkable High-Tech Future of Real-Time CG

Adding visual effects to advertising is a notoriously labor-intensive postproduction process. But Chevrolet this week premiered a slick commercial that used technology from Epic Games and The Mill to allow the filmmakers to render virtual cars over live-action footage in real time–and see exactly how the scenes would look as they were being shot. First,…

McCafé: Cuckoo clock

McCafé: Cuckoo clock

Pasex Condoms: Love species

Pasex Condoms: Love species

Each person have a different Kind of Love to give. If we imagine it like an Animal Instintc we can segment love in species “Straight, gay, lesbian, passionate like condoms skills Retardant, XL, texturized, etc”. In artistic vision we fusioned animals with human sex intentions in this campaign.

Pasex Condoms: Love species, 2

Pasex Condoms: Love species, 2

Each person have a different Kind of Love to give. If we imagine it like an Animal Instintc we can segment love in species “Straight, gay, lesbian, passionate like condoms skills Retardant, XL, texturized, etc”. In artistic vision we fusioned animals with human sex intentions in this campaign.

Penguin Classics: Around the world in eighty days

Penguin Classics: Around the world in eighty days

China’s Response to Reports of Torture: ‘Fake News’

The government has long denounced articles by Western news organizations as biased and dishonest, but Beijing has now adopted a very Western term to describe them.

Beech Wood Extension Tables – The 'Roll-Out' Extending Table by Marcus Voraa is Contemporary (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Those who have extending tables in their home know how cumbersome it can be to make them bigger when guests come over, so the ‘Roll-Out’ table by Marcus Voraa solves this problem.

The &#…

35 Pharmaceutical Packaging Examples – From Chic Supplement Boxes to Single-Serve Vitamin Packs (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These pharmaceutical packaging innovations range from fashionable supplement boxes to single-serve vitamin packs that are designed to offer nutrition for those on the go. Whether designed with…

Caixa de Histórias 83 – Fahrenheit 451

Nesta semana recebemos Felipe Castilho para botarmos fogo na ignorância com a distopia “Fahrenheit 451” de Ray Bradbury. OUÇA ======== Download | iTunes | Feed ======== COMPRE O LIVRO Saraiva Cultura Amazon ======== COMENTADO NO EPISÓDIO Pagina do facebook – O Legado Folclórico CdH – As Crônicas Marcianas CdH – Silo Campanha #OPodcastÉDelas ======== FALE […]

> LEIA MAIS: Caixa de Histórias 83 – Fahrenheit 451