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WPP shares sank Wednesday on the advertising giant's second profit warning of the year, as it said clients were spending less and it was attracting fewer new clients than hoped.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) shares dropped 14% in early trading following an updated outlook that lowered revenue and profit expectations for 2025. The advertising and marketing giant sounded the alarm as it pointed to a tougher economic environment and weaker new business as reasons for the revision.

LONDON, July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Strategic media healthcare agency CMI Media Group, a WPP company (NYSE: WPP), is proud to announce the inaugural European event, Agility Berlin: Transformative Thinking, Rx Precision in Healthcare Marketing, featuring Martin Strobel as keynote. Strobel is an Olympic medalist athlete who competed for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten, and the Germany national team, where he won the European Men's Handball Championship.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after Barclays downgraded it and other advertising agency rivals due to its prediction that artificial intelligence will "profoundly and irrevocably" disrupt the industry. After attending dozens of meetings at the Cannes Lions ad festival last week, the bank acknowledged that while its media team had been an "agency bull" over almost three decades, "we came away from all these meetings more bearish than before".

PHILADELPHIA, June 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Strategic media healthcare agency CMI Media Group, a WPP company (NYSE: WPP), announced it has appointed Andy Shaughnessy as SVP, Data Analytics on the agency's Customer Insights & Analytics team, responsible for leading and growing a talented team of data management experts, along with driving the agency's vision to provide actionable analytics to clients across multiple online and offline channels. With 15 years of proven pharma analytics experience, including omnichannel strategy and advanced/digital analytics, Andy brings a diverse range of skills to this role ensuring efficiency, speed, and value to the development of new data deliverables.

UBS's post-Cannes Lions debrief leaves little doubt that WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) needs to up the pace if it is to reclaim growth, while its peers race ahead on artificial intelligence and client wins. Last week's festival in the South of France drew the bank's analysts into thirty meetings with the chiefs of every major holding company, challenger agency and ad-tech player.

Mark Read, the outgoing CEO of British ad giant WPP, discusses the impact artificial intelligence is having on the advertising industry.

"Sightwalks," the innovative tactile signage system created by Grey Peru, is transforming sidewalks for UNACEM/Sol Cemento NEW YORK , June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Grey, a leading global ad agency, is proud to announce that it has been named an honoree of Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards, alongside its client UNACEM. This annual recognition honors transformative efforts that tackle the world's most pressing issues, from fresh sustainability initiatives and cutting-edge AI developments to ambitious pursuits of social equity that are helping mold the world.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sought information from some of the world's top advertising firms as part of a probe into whether advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust laws by coordinating boycotts of certain sites, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Among firms that received requests are Omnicom, WPP, Dentsu, Interpublic and Publicis.