Adspeak

By Adweek

Love it or hate it, the advertising and marketing industry is the ultimate broker of power and influence in the world today. Adspeak, hosted by ADWEEK editor in chief Ryan Joe, brings to life stories ... more

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June 24, 2025 The Great Cannes Land Grab
Behind the rosé and rooftops, Cannes 2025 laid bare a deep anxiety in advertising. With AI unease and retail media consolidation looming, Cannes became ground zero for creative one-upmanship. We break down the land grab, the ad tech wars, and the award season drama.
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32min
June 17, 2025 Mark Read Is Out. Now What?
WPP’s CEO is on his way out, with no clear successor in place. Mark Read inherited a holding company in crisis, and the company is still in crisis. We unpack his legacy and what the future holds for the ad giant.
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30min
June 10, 2025 Adalytics vs. the Industry
Adalytics has become the industry's most polarizing watchdog, praised for its transparency crusade—and sued for it. We unpack how its research is shaking up ad tech and whether the company can survive its own impact.

Guest: Kendra Barnett, ADWEEK senior tech reporter
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29min
June 03, 2025 Holding Company Succession
The power struggle among ad giants has never been fiercer. Publicis has surged ahead, WPP is wobbling, and Omnicom is making a massive play by plotting a historic merger with IPG. Ryan Joe and Alison Weissbrot unpack the drama behind the consolidation frenzy reshaping Madison Avenue.
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32min
May 27, 2025 Every Story’s an Ad Now
Batman’s selling insurance. Sally is unreasonably excited about mayonnaise. Morpheus has more than a few chip flavors to offer. Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery’s Storyverse – where your favorite characters become the face of your household products. On this episode of Adspeak, Editor in Chief Ryan Joe and Deputy Editor Bill Bradley unpack the strategy, risks, and ripple effects of turning every story and every beloved character into a sales channel.
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31min
May 20, 2025 Dark Times at the LA Times
Can billionaires save journalism—or are they accelerating its collapse? ADWEEK’s Mark Stenberg reports on how Patrick Soon-Shiong’s hands-on management of the Los Angeles Times sparked internal chaos, subscriber losses, and advertiser backlash. With insights from Janice Min, we explore what this case says about the future of legacy media.
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39min
May 13, 2025 Women's Sports Is Rewriting the Playbook
Women’s sports aren’t “having a moment” – they are the moment. Sue Bird saw it coming. Now, with NIL deals, $2 billion media rights contracts, and brands pumping in sponsorship dollars, the playbook is changing fast. This episode features trailblazers who've helped turn women's sports into an audience magnet, including WNBA legend Bird, Ally Financial CMO Andrea Brimmer, and Google global marketing director Kate Johnson. We'll unpack how women’s leagues became one of the hottest growth stories in sports marketing, why fan engagement is off the charts, and why smart brands are getting in before it’s too expensive to play.
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31min
May 06, 2025 Miami Nice
Possible began as an upstart industry event with yachts, sun, and a surprise Elon Musk cameo. But in just three years, it’s become a legitimate power center for senior marketers. In this episode, host Ryan Joe speaks with industry veteran Lou Paskalis and ADWEEK senior reporter Kendra Barnett about the Miami-based conference's rapid expansion, the business done in hotel hallways, and how Possible might reshape the global event calendar—including Cannes itself.
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24min
April 29, 2025 Antitrust and Google’s Adtech Alphabet Soup
Google comfortably controls over 25% of the $303 billion ad market in the U.S. That will probably look very different in five year's time. This episode unpacks Google's adtech antitrust violations, explaining the tangled path that led us here and what it means for the industry, plus Google itself as it faces looming threats of a break up. Experts join us to make sense of the acronyms and intrigue behind digital advertising’s biggest shake-up yet. Let’s dive straight into Google’s adtech alphabet soup.
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22min
April 22, 2025 Walmart: Always Low Prices, Except on Ads
Retail media is a major growth area for digital marketing, and retailers like Walmart, Target, and Instacart and making huge investments to grow their ad selling businesses. But with that growth comes outsized expectations. This year, Walmart in particular has been clawing for bigger ad commitments from the companies that sell in its stores — up to 25% more from the previous year. And that’s a problem because it’s not always clear if these ads really perform. In this episode, we look at the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t dichotomy as retail media has its financial growth spurt.
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