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Global advertising revenue is expected to grow 6% this year, WPP Media said on Monday, lowering its earlier target of 7.7% due to uncertainty over U.S. trade policies.

WPP Media now sees global ad industry growth of 6% for this year, down from its prior forecast of 7.7%, excluding U.S. political spending.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) has begun the search for a new chief executive, as Mark Read has revealed his plans to retire at the end of the year. Read, who took the top job in 2018 after the inglorious departure of founder Sir Martin Sorrell, has been at the company for over thrree decades.

WPP is undervalued, trading at a 7x P/E and offering a well-covered 6.7% yield, despite recent earnings declines and sector headwinds. The company is a global market leader with strong agency brands and major clients, but consistently underperforms peers like Publicis, Omnicom, and IPG. Risks include weak top-line growth, short-term contracts, and high digital transformation costs, but the downside is limited at the current valuation.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) shareholders hoping for a turnaround in 2025 may be left disappointed, according to a leading investment bank, which has kept its 'sell' rating on the advertising giant and lowered its price target from 580p to 520p. UBS's latest update paints a gloomy picture.

WPP plc (NYSE:WPP ) Q1 2025 Results Conference Call April 25, 2025 4:30 AM ET Company Participants Mark Read - CEO Joanne Wilson - CFO Conference Call Participants Nicolas Langlet - BNP Paribas Simon Baker - Bernstein Adrien de Saint Hilaire - Bank of America Steve Liechti - Deutsche Numis Lisa Yang - Goldman Sachs Adam Berlin - UBS Laura Metayer - Morgan Stanley Julien Roch - Barclays Mark Read Thank you very much, and good morning, everybody. Welcome to our first quarter trading update.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) said it was too early to judge the full impact of President Trump's new tariffs, but acknowledged that trade disruption was adding to an already cautious backdrop for clients. The advertising group reported a slowdown in business for the first quarter of 2025, although results came in line with expectations and full-year guidance was reiterated.

WPP confirmed its guidance for 2025 after a start to the year that was slightly weaker than analysts expected, but cautioned on the impact of global tariffs on its clients and the economy.

PHILADELPHIA , April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic media healthcare agency CMI Media Group, a WPP company (NYSE: WPP), today announces that their Empower™ SaaS-operating system's automated media orchestration (AMO) application has achieved the milestone of over 200 campaigns in market, representing $1 Billion in incremental revenue for more than 25 CMI clients. With AMO, CMI Media Group has built an application that solves the problem of orchestrating paid media at scale, connecting to and working in concert with client mar tech stacks that support owned media, web personalization, and CRM.

Ad Council and Alzheimer's Association's campaign highlights early warning signs that can be mistaken for normal aging, with emphasis on reaching Black Americans, who are twice as likely to develop the disease NEW YORK , April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ad Council, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, today launched new public service advertisements (PSAs) to help people recognize the early signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in their loved ones. The new suite of PSAs are the latest in the award-winning "Some Things Come with Age" campaign, which continues to encourage pre-care partners to learn about the early warning signs of Alzheimer's.