WPP grapples with an inherited “failure of modern corporate governance,” Darren Woolley writes. Cindy Rose must now prove that the next chapter rests on integrity rather than growth at any cost.
Ad fraud is now a top-tier global crime rivalling drug trafficking, yet barely treated as one. Darren Woolley asks why the industry tolerates losses it would never accept anywhere else.
The datasets shaping AI’s creative output reflect decades of cultural bias. In marketing, that means the future we’re building could look suspiciously like the past unless humans reclaim the creative brief.
Darren Woolley outlines his benchmarks for validating AI marketing, including productivity, speed, scale, and quality, and states productivity and performance, efficiency and effectiveness go hand in hand.
Dentsu’s potential sale, WPP’s turmoil, Omnicom and IPG’s merger chase all point to the fact that the giants of advertising are stumbling. As TrinityP3's Darren Woolley argues, this is natural selection at work: adapt or go extinct.