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Madison and Wall's Brian Wieser and Luke Stillman digs into how the advertising business really works. Subscribe for analysis, insight and more about advertising, media and technology trends.
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Access more M&W research summaries and analysis by subscribing to our complimentary Saturday newsletter at https://madisonandwall.substack.com/.
To learn about becoming a paid subscriber or advertising with us, reach out to Brian at brian@madisonandwall.com.
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We review our latest work of the week, which featured the real-world impact of tariff policies, the latest earnings results on advertising in ad tech and with agencies, Infillion's acquisition of Catalina, WPP's large client data published via court filing and more.
We review our latest work of the week, which featured analyses of topics including agency earnings results via Omnicom, commerce media results via Walmart, packaged goods management commentary at CAGNY and news related to The Trade Desk and Google.
We review our latest work of the week, which featured extensive analyses of topics around AI and advertising, big news for Dentsu, WPP and Omnicom and a review of earnings at Pinterest, Roku, TF1 and others
We review our latest work of the week, including our detailed analysis of the limitations of saving journalism with advertising, as well as earnings results from (and the AI impact on) Google, Amazon and Publicis among others.
We review our latest work of the week, including Meta's ad revenue growth, the global read-throughs on YouTube's dispute with UK-based Barb, the launch of Madison & Wall's proprietary category advertising data and more on local and national TV from Comcast and Charter.
We review our latest work of the week including the impact of tariff threats related to the US' interest in Greenland, Netflix advertising, TikTok, P&G and WPP's news about its production business
On this week’s edition of the Madison & Wall podcast: a special cross-posting with the WPP Media Intelligence team! We discuss agentic commerce, bank earnings, TikTok’s World Cup plans, app advertising and more.
We review our latest work of the week including how to tell how AI will or won’t move ad budgets, an analysis of the potential combination of Publicis and LiveRamp and a review of our latest data on independent agency growth rates.
We review our latest work of the week including TikTok's sale of its US business, our new overview of "Alternative" DSPs, the latest measurement spat involving Nielsen and the VAB and an analysis of new economic data,
We review our latest work of the week including an analysis of new US and Canada Ad forecasts, new programmatic ad forecasts, large and small advertiser trends as well as news that Pinterest is set to acquire tvScientific.
We review our latest work of the week including an analysis of the Netflix bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and streaming business, new data on video spending by consumers, and our take on news related to Omnicom's integration of Interpublic following the close of that transaction.
We review our latest work of the week including an analysis of AI platform content licensing, strategic retail media trends, the consistency of weak TV trends in Europe and the evolution of regulators' market definitions
We review our latest work of the week including new economic data from Europe, our analysis of the latest earnings results from Disney, Paramount, Interpublic + news from Publicis and much more.
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of the latest earnings results from ad tech, publishing, outdoor advertising, Comcast's interest in ITV and much, much more
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of streaming / CTV advertising pricing, new data from Google, Meta and Amazon showing acceleration in advertising growth - but also caution in spending from packaged goods companies - and the latest from WPP.
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of the latest earnings results from Netflix and Omnicom, commentary from CEOs and CFOs at the world's largest marketers and a summary of our recent research on meaningful changes in marketers' use of agencies for media owner payments.
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of growth trends from Publicis, Havas and Nestle as well as a deeper dive into growth trends for large and small marketers
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of news on TV network sales consolidation (along with implications for markets around the world), AI Search, Zeta Global and Applovin with broader read-throughs for the larger brands who don't currently work with the latter two companies but prefer price and convenience over control and transparency.
We review our latest work of the week including our analysis of news from The Trade Desk, total spending volumes from Google's DV360, the Havas-Horizon and independent agency growth rates
We review our latest work of the week including read-throughs on the impact of the news impacting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, including the impact on streaming and subscription services in general (which would be poised to continue growing even if Disney didn't also announce price increases), an analysis of the current state of auto advertising, new data from the IRS indicating that SMBs are not driving advertising growth and more




