
Contractual transparency should be enacted immediately: renegotiate media contracts, require independent verification, and set a 12-month test year to assess performance across channels. This move ensures clear accountability between groupm, publicis, partners, and platforms, with their data feeds, including amazons, youtube, and other marketplaces.
Address demand toward transparent reporting across core touchpoints like youtube searches and search campaigns, ensuring customer-centric outcomes guide budget allocations. There remains value in standardizing cross-channel dashboards, and groupm plus publicis cover shared performance with contractual data feeds; this covers key elements of performance across outlets.
Emerging partnerships within a single group deliver added capabilities, yet only if governance remains strict: campaigns align with contractual terms, privacy rules, and clear measurement. Upcoming year should be treated as a test bed for refining models, with customer outcomes guiding optimization, not impressions.
Between amazons, youtube, and other marketplaces, publicis and groupm must coordinate campaigns via shared dashboards, ensuring contractual terms stay aligned with demand signals. There, a coordinated campaign playbook becomes default instead of ad hoc buys. This reduces waste and supports tests around search intent versus video engagement, with transparent metrics that cover engagement and conversion paths.
Regular assessment of contractual performance across campaigns, focusing on customer value and long-term brand health, rather than short-term spikes. That thing to keep in mind is aligning incentives with customer outcomes, not just impressions. In client briefs, capture learnings from emerging patterns and adjust search, video, and social campaigns accordingly. Rely on a transparent, data-driven cycle to ensure campaigns cover business outcomes while guarding against overspend.
Practical Playbook for Brands in the Merger Era

Launch a 5-10 week efficiency sprint that unites internal teams, agency partners, Publicis, and retailers into a single master plan. Confirm alignment across work streams, reduce duplicative work, and create clear ownership–each milestone tracked by a simple language common to all partners. This event-level coordination remains resilient as change occurs.
Channel strategy: map every touchpoint along shopper journey to identify high-impact channels and pull purchase intent. Maintain flexibility when a spin in consumer interest arises; prefer channels with measurable ROI. This approach keeps news timely and relevant to retailers and advocate partners.
Data collaboration: create a shared data spine across Publicis and partners to confirm insights from a survey, surveys, and news items. Use a 5-10 metric dashboard to measure efficiency, event response, and channel mix. Inside this system, language stays consistent across markets.
Shopper-first content: tailor messages to key segments, ensuring diversity in voices to reflect interest. The approach creates authentic experiences at in-store, online shop, and social touchpoints. Use a controlled spin on messages to avoid fatigue across channels.
Retailer alignment: present a compact, 3-part plan to retailers that highlights efficiency gains, supply resilience, and clear value. Confirm commitments with each retailer, document expectations, and set joint KPIs. This coordination helps companys across markets maintain a coherent narrative and reduces friction during integration.
Measurement and governance: define a master set of metrics–ROI, efficiency, reach, and share of voice–and track them in a single channel-agnostic dashboard. Use a quarterly survey to surface news, changes in shopper sentiment, and interest from partners. This becomes an advocate tool for brand teams and agency partners alike.
Culture and language: build a shared language that explains strategy in plain terms, emphasize transparency, and invite diversity of viewpoints. Publish concise briefs, keep internal comms compact, and provide an FAQ to answer common questions. This keeps teams inside all orgs aligned and helps retailers understand direction.
Assessing Combined Capabilities: How to evaluate and re-align agency partners after the merger
Recommendation: identify core capabilities driving brands value within 60 days. Look for gaps between current setups and required delivery. Identify office roles and holdcos, plus regulators expectations. Peter from regional office notes that this kind move scales faster when desks align with client needs.
thats why governance cadences matter. Perfect setup enables quick decision cycles. after milestones, performance updates inform next actions. Covers cross-channel investments, including television and digital, with courtesy to regulators and holdcos.
Industrys insights show some change opportunities arise in regional markets. Courtesy to brands remains essential while you shift people, budgets, and processes. Change should be measured; idea and means drive progress.
Look for last-year patterns and years of collaboration to identify where moves made significant lift. Path changes that reduce balls-in handoffs and accelerate speed.
Spin on model keeps momentum high and creates a chance to accelerate cross-office results. Head leads should own transitions, desks should reflect capability, and office maps should stay aligned.
That alignment fits industrys realities where brands compete against formats across television, digital, and experiential. Investment in marketing must be coordinated across offices and holdcos.
| Capability area | Assessment method | Reallocation action |
| Creative planning | Desk audit; client outcomes; cross-promo tests | Shift headcount to regional desks; adjust marketing investment toward high-potential brands |
| Media investment & optimization | Performance across television; digital; programmatic; cross-channel tests | Consolidate desks within holdcos; speed up approvals via regulators oversight |
| Veri ve analiz | Data quality checks; shared dashboards; year-over-year uplift | Invest in common data platform; align measurement across offices |
| Creative production | Turnaround times; test results; video formats | Co-locate production desks; leverage centers of excellence |
Direct-Response Audio Tactics: Formats, messaging, and testing plans that drive measurable response

Recommendation: Launch a two-track direct-response audio program: short 15-second bursts to spike recall and longer 60-second narratives that explain value, each paired with a single, trackable CTA leading buyers toward a dedicated landing path.
Formats span 15-second spots, 30-second mid-rolls, and 3-minute narratives, all carrying a single, trackable CTA that directs listeners to a landing path. Sometimes a brief pause after CTA boosts recall. Use programmatic insertion and host-read variants to boost relevance across devices, with volume controlled to prevent audience fatigue. On this side, language is tuned to avoid fatigue. In-house team and agency partners stay aligned; master templates ensure consistent tone from commercial to podcast, and pivot when apparent signals emerge across event data from techtarget and other sources. This approach has been validated across markets.
Messaging aligns with customer goals across journey stages: awareness, consideration, decision. Those buyers and business customers respond to outcomes like speed, reliability, and cost savings. Emphasize expertise, cite clients’ success stories, and reference data from events and techtarget insights. Publicis networks across agency partners provide a consistent voice, with omnicom paramount perspective baked into drafts to build credibility, broad audience reach. Industry says clarity lowers friction, and marketers report better lift when messages remain simple and relevant.
Testing plan spans six variants: opening line, value proposition, CTA phrasing, benefit framing, offer, pace. Each variant ties to a concrete action: visit a site, request a demo, or sign up. Monitor double-digit lifts in actions after exposure, and assess post-click results against a baseline. Use event data to reveal which message resonates across buyers and clients; after each wave, prune underperforming variants and pivot toward top performers. A wall of dashboards keeps clients informed, with live updates from techtarget benchmarks and master data models across teams. Turn impressions into actions with a streamlined path toward close. If youre operating with tight budgets, youre prioritizing volume toward best-performing formats and pivot quickly.
Analytics Stack and Attribution: Choosing data sources, models, and dashboards to inform decisions
Recommendation: build an open data spin anchored by a single source of truth, gets input from 5-10 core data sources, and introduces transparent attribution to management across holdco and markets. This setup delivers most value when dashboards support fast, evidence-based actions and invite local teams to comment.
Core data sources
- First-party signals: website and app events, CRM, offline conversions, and transaction data integrated into a durable identity graph.
- Local market feeds: POS, loyalty, and in-store engagement data captured at store or region level to keep local nuances alive.
- Media and content signals: YouTube impressions, video completions, and audio streaming interactions fed into attribution models.
- Portfolio and investment data: holdco budgets, spend, and returns aligned with campaign calendars to connect spend to outcomes.
- Syndicated and third-party data: audience panels and contextual signals used only to fill gaps, with clear documentation on sampling and limitations.
- Open signals from public sources where appropriate, with governance around usage rights and privacy impact.
Modeling and attribution approach
- Models: mix linear models for baseline budget allocation with non-linear approaches for interaction effects; use attribution models that combine multi-touch signals with aggregate outcomes.
- Introduce causal methods where experiments exist; use uplift tests to validate actions before scaling.
- Transparency in modeling choices: document assumptions, data latency, and limitations; provide access to model inputs for scrutiny.
- Aggregation rules: aggregate signals carefully to avoid double-counting; keep a clear distinction between holdco and local market outputs.
- Kelly-based investment sizing: apply Kelly criterion to example budget allocations across markets, balancing risk and upside potential.
Dashboards and visualization
- Holdco dashboards: executive views showing ROI by investment category, channel mix, and top-performing markets; emphasize actionable metrics and comments from analysts.
- Local market dashboards: drill-downs by region, city, or store cluster; enable quick follow-up actions by field teams.
- Time-series and causal visuals: path analyses, lift curves, and experiment results presented with clear confidence intervals.
- Open sharing: ensure access for management, analytics, and investment committees; provide commentary fields to capture context and hypotheses.
- Data freshness: support near-real time streams for critical signals and daily rollups for broader views; balance speed with reliability.
- Data quality indicators: flag gaps, latency, and sampling issues to preserve trust in decisions.
- Audio and video signals: include YouTube and audio engagement metrics in attribution dashboards to reflect cross-channel dynamics.
Implementation steps and governance
- Define a single source of truth scope, identify 5-10 core data sources, and map data contracts across holdco and markets.
- Ingest, normalize, and align identity across signals; implement privacy safeguards and role-based access to data.
- Develop a baseline linear model suite, add non-linear and causal components as learnings accrue, and document each model’s purpose.
- Build dashboards with role-specific views; enable comment fields for insights, hypotheses, and next steps.
- Run a multi-market pilot with Publicis teams; capture learnings, adjust data contracts, and widen scope.
- Scale across markets, refine Kelly-based budget sizing, and establish ongoing governance on data quality, model updates, and transparency.
Operasyonel hususlar
- Open data practices, with documented data lineage, foster trust and speed up decision cycles in dynamic market conditions.
- Comment-driven storytelling helps decision-makers understand drivers behind outcomes and what actions to take next.
- Local teams benefit from lightweight, actionable dashboards that surface things that require immediate management attention.
- Continuous improvement plan: schedule quarterly reviews to refresh data sources, validate models, and adjust dashboards to changing needs.
- Publicis collaboration raises standards for data governance, while providing scalable solutions for investment committees and executive teams.
Budget Reallocation and Media Negotiation: Terms, pricing, and cross-channel optimization strategies
Recommendation: Reallocate budget toward high-ROI formats and secure flexible pricing terms across media partners. Align allocations with marketing goals; emphasize direct response and upper-funnel branding where marketing analytics show significant lift. Build setups that test alternative creatives and channels within a quarterly framework to capture dynamic shifts in demand.
Make transparency a core condition in media negotiation. Seek published rate cards, guaranteed baselines, and performance-based bonuses. Use ROAS targets to set stakes; tie incentives to outcomes rather than impressions alone.
Cross-channel optimization requires a unified measurement approach. Adopt common currency across formats, time-aligned attribution, and cross-device targeting signals from sources. Ensure scalability by setting quarterly checks and automation to shift budgets instantly when signals change.
With omnicoms ecosystem, align services across channels to accelerate scale. Build term sheets favoring flexible clauses, multi-year commitments, and automatic budget shifts when signals align with targets. Negotiate pricing tied to outcomes rather than impressions.
Rely on credible sources such as first-party tags, publisher panels, and partner attribution signals to calibrate budgets. Use cross-channel attribution to determine which formats deliver value in each quarter.
Technology drives automation, bidding, and attribution, enabling faster reaction times across formats. This provides an answer that helps teams seeking control over spend.
Future-oriented setups emphasize flexibility, cost transparency, and cross-channel experimentation. Though markets shift, plans built around omnicoms capabilities are likely to yield improved targeting, stronger reach, and higher returns across quarters.
Achieve clarity by consolidating cross-channel reports into a single dashboard, with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
Onboarding, Transition, and Risk Controls: Ensuring smooth handoffs, governance, and brand safety
Adopt a formal onboarding playbook with clear handoff points across desks, a single source of truth – assets, approvals, and risk controls – plus a 7‑day signoff window. This will accelerate alignment across desks.
Create governance tower: standing risk council, cross‑functional, meeting monthly to approve budgets, monitor campaigns, and ensure ongoing safety standards because visibility spans operations.
Implement automated content screening, publisher whitelists, dynamic frequency caps, and a unified control loop that ties DSP, ad server, and creative review.
During transition, map client assets to operating desks at office level, designate advocates at each stage, and ensure shared KPIs.
address data handling, access rights, and vendor fees; require privacy risk signoffs before any data movement.
Monitor television, digital, and programmatic reach across current markets, particularly in competitive sectors; involve google and buyers; ensure targeting avoids deprioritised placements and preserves safety.
Globally integrated workflows enable scale; publicis, google, and other partners work in unison through aligned targeting, attribution, and risk controls.
During spin cycles, address capacity gaps, even at peak demand, by making cross‑desk handoffs natural and predictable, avoiding silos and miscommunication.
Align services across offices; ensure integrated service levels; deprioritised vendors receive lighter exposure, limited to essential partners.
Give buyers a single, natural pathway to collaborate; address when to engage, deliverables, and how to measure impact.
Think differently, adapt quickly, and future‑proof operations across markets; this will strengthen power of partnerships and protect safety.
Publish a 90‑day migration plan, with milestones across desks, and weekly dashboards addressing current risk indicators after deployment.