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Partnership unlocks access to one of the world’s most powerful mobile platforms, enabling Stagwell clients to reach audiences with greater precision and efficiency

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 10, 2026 / Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), the global challenger network transforming marketing through AI, today announced a strategic partnership with AppLovin that brings AppLovin’s advanced mobile advertising platform, Axon, into Stagwell’s media offering, providing clients with enhanced transparency, measurement, and reporting tools for smarter, highly effective mobile campaigns.

Axon by AppLovin is a leading mobile marketing platform, reaching over a billion users every day across mobile apps and connected TV. With a large network of top-ranked gaming apps and a proprietary AI engine for real-time ad optimization, it is one of the most influential platforms in mobile and performance advertising. Through the partnership, Stagwell clients will gain access to a billion potential customers that are highly engaged inside mobile games.

“AppLovin’s platform offers powerful reach and performance capabilities for our clients looking to drive measurable outcomes in mobile environments,” said Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO of Stagwell. “This partnership aligns with Stagwell’s broader focus on AI-powered marketing, pairing its performance-driven approach with AppLovin’s machine learning-driven platform.”

In addition to enhanced reporting and optimization tools, Stagwell clients will also receive platform support across setup and optimization, creative best practices, and vertical-specific campaign execution. These resources will help clients get the most out of the platform and deepen AppLovin’s engagement with global brands and agencies across Stagwell’s network. Looking ahead, the companies also plan to collaborate on future joint marketing initiatives and industry events.

About Stagwell
Stagwell is the global challenger network transforming marketing through AI. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 45+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at  www.stagwellglobal.com.

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AI-native platform turns existing marketing stack into an intelligent system that learns from every campaign

LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESS Newswire / January 5, 2026 / Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced the launch of “The Machine,” marketing’s first agentic operating system. Built by Code and Theory, Stagwell’s digital transformation agency and Adweek’s Most Innovative Agency of the Year, The Machine doesn’t replace marketers’ tools; it makes them more effective and predictive.

The Machine enhances the data systems and tools marketers already use, including Figma, Slack, Teams, Adobe, and performance dashboards. The Machine turns disconnected workflows into a unified system powered by AI agents and amplified by Stagwell’s agencies, products and data. With The Machine, every brief, creative asset and media plan feeds a system that learns, adapts and compounds. Each campaign makes the next one faster, smarter and more effective.

“The launch of The Machine, combined with our recent release of newvoices.AI and strategic partnerships with Palantir and Gradial, marks another milestone in cementing Stagwell as a leader in marketing AI,” said Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO of Stagwell. “This moment underscores Stagwell’s ability to deliver best-in-class solutions for clients and lead the industry through the AI era.”

“Most marketing AI tools ask you to rip out your infrastructure and start over,” said Dan Gardner, Founder and Chairman of Code and Theory. “The Machine does the opposite. It works where you work, improves and AI enables the tools you already use, and transforms existing operations into an agentic system. That’s the shift from isolated tools to a unified operating system.”

Code and Theory clients are already adopting The Machine’s early model. Stagwell will offer demos of The Machine at CES January 6-9 at booth #L2-P2, where attendees will see real use cases across the marketing organization, including:

  • Cross-functional orchestration: Strategy, creative, production and media work from shared intelligence rather than siloed handoffs, reducing friction and accelerating time to market.

  • Intelligence in context: Mini-Machine plugins directly into the tools marketers already in use, eliminating app-switching and workflow friction.

  • Unified strategic spine: The Machine connects brand strategy, creative production and media performance into a single source of truth, ensuring every new campaign builds on what has already been learned.

  • Creative content production at scale: AI-assisted workflows maintain brand integrity while dramatically increasing output velocity.

  • Real-time tracking: Feeds into creative and strategic decisions, creating a closed loop where optimization happens continuously.

The Machine represents the culmination of Code and Theory’s work transforming marketing operations for enterprise clients including Qualcomm, TIME, Stanley Black & Decker, Henry Schein and T. Rowe Price. The agency’s historic 2024 included 11 top industry recognitions from Fast Company, Adweek, Ad Age, the ANA, Digiday, Campaign and the Shorty Awards.

“Clients have been asking for a solution that connects people, content, data, and technology to truly realize the value of AI, and The Machine delivers just that,” said Michael Treff, CEO of Code and Theory. “We’ve turned marketing operations into a unified system rather than a collection of tools to enable marketers to embrace the next phase of AI transformation.”

The Machine will be available for enterprise deployment in Q1 2026.

About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger holding company built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 45+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.

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The Code and Theory Network is the only technology and creative network with a balance of 50% creative and 50% engineers. Our unique makeup makes us the place where CMOs, CTOs and CIOs come together to drive results for their businesses. We partner with our clients to redefine what is possible to create lasting impact and drive long-term growth. Part of Stagwell, Code and Theory offers a global footprint and the capabilities to work across the entirety of the customer-facing journey, and implement the technology that powers it. The network includes the flagship agency Code and Theory as well as Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Truelogic, Create. Group, Rhythm and Mediacurrent. Code and Theory clients include Amazon, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, NBC, NFL and Yeti. For more, visit codeandtheory.com.

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NEW YORKDec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today announced the launch of NewVoices.ai, a lifelike AI platform designed to redefine how organizations manage sales, customer engagement, and retention at scale. Built as an end-to-end operating system for modern revenue teams, NewVoices.ai functions as an independent sales agent that can book appointments, drive conversions, resolve questions, and handle customer concerns around the world, in any language, with a 24/7 instant response.

Unlike generic AI chatbots, NewVoices.ai is built as a true one-to-one intelligence layer that can engage in meaningful, information-based sales conversations at levels superior to typical existing sales conversations.

The platform continuously adapts to people’s preferences, history, and goals so every interaction is personalized. As you engage with it, the system keeps learning, becoming more attuned to people’s style and needs over time.

“NewVoices.ai is a new dimension in agent interaction with people to accomplish sales, appointments, research interviews and retention calls. We believe this opens up a huge new market for us,” shared Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO of Stagwell. “Agents like NewVoices are at the center of Stagwell’s strategy of AI transformation and new revenue opportunities.”

Powered by Stagwell’s proprietary data and designed for one-to-one personalization, the platform learns from every interaction to deliver responses shaped around each individual customer. The outcome is an AI workforce that feeds directly into an enterprise stack and delivers human-level tailored experiences that traditional systems lack.

Enterprises can deploy ready-made solutions or customize solutions for their own workflows, including:

  • Sales and revenue
  • Customer support
  • Retention and renewals
  • Payments and operations
  • Surveys and feedback

“With NewVoices.ai, companies can replace fragmented sales workflows with a single, intelligent engine poised to disrupt the revenue ecosystem entirely,” said Eran Nizri, Founder of NewVoices.ai and The Marketing Cloud’s LEADERS and InfluencerMarketing.ai (IMAI). “NewVoices.ai is not just software or outsourcing – it’s a lifelike, always-on AI workforce that delivers measurable results from day one.”

For more information, please visit www.newvoices.ai.

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NewVoices.ai is Stagwell’s AI Workforce platform and managed service for enterprise sales, support, retention, payments, and feedback. It combines AI agents, automation, analytics, and integrations with a managed operations layer to deliver human-level conversations at global scale.

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Sardella Will Take on Dual Roles at PRophet and Allison Worldwide to Lead AI Product Development, Global Client Expansion and Strategic Partnerships

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — PRophet, a comms tech suite of essential, award-winning AI-powered software and services for modern communicators, announced today the appointment of Tony Sardella as its global CEO. As part of The Marketing Cloud (formerly Stagwell Marketing Cloud), PRophet connects to a broader suite of AI-driven marketing and communications solutions and supporting its mission to empower communicators with actionable insights, analytics, and predictive tools for a data- and AI-fueled industry.

Sardella will spearhead PRophet’s continued expansion and innovation as the platform enters its next phase of accelerated growth while continuing his role at Stagwell’s Allison Worldwide as Head of Predictive Analytics.

PRophet’s comprehensive suite includes three AI-powered solutions designed to maximize performance for marketing and communications professionals. PRophet Media Intelligence delivers global media monitoring and actionable insights, PRophet Earn uses generative and predictive AI to identify and engage relevant journalists and influencers, and PRophet Influence optimizes influencer discovery, analytics, and campaign tracking through agentic AI.

PRophet has achieved remarkable scale and market penetration since its 2020 launch, growing to become the third-largest communications technology suite globally. In June, PRophet completed the successful integration of media monitoring and analytics provider UNICEPTA (now PRophet Media Intelligence) and influencer management agency and technology platform LEADERS and InfluencerMarketing.AI (now PRophet Influence), further strengthening its market-leading position and expanding its capabilities to serve enterprise clients at unprecedented scale.

“PRophet’s growth has been remarkable, and its foundation remains formidable,” said The Marketing Cloud CEO Elspeth Rollert. “We’ve built something truly revolutionary, a platform that doesn’t just keep pace with industry evolution but actively drives it. Tony’s appointment represents our commitment to not just maintaining this leadership position but accelerating our growth trajectory by bringing advanced technology to the market.”

Sardella brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise and proven communications leadership that positions PRophet for its most ambitious growth phase yet. With more than 30 years of experience leading data-science and predictive analytics organizations, he has built innovative AI/ML systems that turn real-world signals into executive decisions for global Fortune and FTSE corporations. Prior to joining the Stagwell network, he founded and successfully scaled predictive analytics firm evolve24, demonstrating his ability to build and grow technology-driven solutions in the communications space. His decades of senior communications leadership experience with global enterprises including Monsanto provides the strategic acumen necessary to guide PRophet’s expansion into new markets and service offerings.

“I’m incredibly honored to lead both PRophet and Allison Worldwide’s predictive analytics during what I believe will be the most transformative period yet,” said Sardella. “The PRophet team has built extraordinary success and growth that truly revolutionized our industry. My focus is on accelerating that momentum with a foundation that is rock-solid, technology is best-in-class, insights that are actionable and a commitment to client success for the enormous market opportunity ahead.”

For more information, visit www.prprophet.ai.

About PRophet
PRophet is a suite of AI-powered SaaS software and services designed to empower and support the next generation of human-led, AI-fed “communications engineers” working in the PR, social and influencer marketing community.

PRophet Media Intelligence (F/K/A UNICEPTA) is the largest provider of global media, market intelligence and social listening tools, delivering unmatched insights and analysis to communicators worldwide. 

PRophet Earn harnesses predictive, cognitive and generative AI to help users discover, target and engage with high-authority journalists and leading influencers. This media relations solution creates and tests “mediable” PR content to predict journalist interest and sentiment.  

PRophet Influence, powered by influencermarketing.ai, combines influencer discovery, analytics, brand safety and tracking technologies to inform and manage influencer campaigns with precision and performance in mind.

PRophet was awarded PRovoke Media’s Innovation SABRE in 2023-2025, a 2024 Webby Award, and was included in PR News’ 2024 Tech Hotlist. PRophet is headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington DC, London, Cologne, Berlin, Zurich, São Paulo and Shanghai and is part of The Marketing Cloud (TMC), a suite of data-driven SaaS solutions built for the modern marketer. Visit prprophet.ai to learn more.

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UNICEPTA’s Media Intelligence Capabilities Now Operate as ‘PRophet Media Intelligence’ Within the Comprehensive PRophet Comms Tech Suite

NEW YORK and COLOGNE, Germany, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — PRophet, a comms tech suite of essential, award-winning AI-powered software and services for modern communicators, today announced it has fully integrated UNICEPTA into the PRophet comms tech suite, following its acquisition of UNICEPTA in December 2024. UNICEPTA’s offerings will now operate under the PRophet brand family as “PRophet Media Intelligence,” joining a unified brand and enhanced suite of AI-powered software and services, positioning PRophet now as the third largest comms tech suite in the world.

The full PRophet Suite now houses three AI-powered SaaS and human-powered analytics solutions that empower PR and social media professionals to maximize their performance and productivity.

  • PRophet Media Intelligence (F/K/A UNICEPTA): Offers comprehensive global media monitoring, market intelligence, and social listening tools, delivering unmatched insights and analysis to communicators worldwide.
  • PRophet Earn: Deploys predictive, cognitive, and generative AI to help discover, target, and engage with the most relevant and interested high-authority journalists. and leading influencers.
  • PRophet Influence: Powered by influencermarketing.ai, uses agentic-AI to power influencer discovery, analytics, brand safety, and tracking to inform and manage influencer marketing campaigns.

“Fully integrating UNICEPTA into PRophet allows us to provide clients with the technology, expertise and data they need to grow, protect and lead their enterprise communications,” said Aaron Kwittken, Founder and Global CEO of PRophet. “Not only does this rebrand mark a major milestone for client offerings and services but also realizes our global vision of ushering in and empowering a new generation of communications engineers with the unified tools they need in today’s complex media landscape.”

This integration will also bring new roles to UNICEPTA’s co-CEO’s, Sebastian Rohwer and Alexander Peinemann. Sebastian will become Chief Client Services Officer and Managing Director, Central Europe of PRophet and Alexander will become Chief Operating Officer and Chief Transformation Officer of PRophet.

As part of this integration and brand migration, PRophet launched a new website and refreshed visual identity, reflecting the brand’s evolution and commitment to innovation in the communications technology space.

With this integration and rebranding, PRophet enters a new phase of growth—firmly uniting global talent and markets, rapidly accelerating our mission to redefine what’s possible and deliver what’s next in modern communications.

For more information, visit www.prprophet.ai.

About PRophet

PRophet is a suite of AI-powered SaaS software and services designed to empower and support the next generation of human-led, AI-fed “communications engineers” working in the PR, social and influencer marketing community.

PRophet Media Intelligence (F/K/A UNICEPTA) is the largest provider of global media, market intelligence and social listening tools, delivering unmatched insights and analysis to communicators worldwide.

PRophet Earn harnesses predictive, cognitive and generative AI to help users discover, target and engage with high-authority journalists and leading influencers. This media relations solution creates and tests “mediable” PR content to predict journalist interest and sentiment.

PRophet Influence, powered by influencermarketing.ai, combines influencer discovery, analytics, brand safety and tracking technologies to inform and manage influencer campaigns with precision and performance in mind.

PRophet was awarded PRovoke Media’s Innovation SABRE in 2023-2025, a 2024 Webby Award, and was included in PR News’ 2024 Tech Hotlist. PRophet is headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington DC, London, Cologne, Berlin, Zurich, São Paulo and Shanghai and is part of The Marketing Cloud (TMC), a suite of data-driven SaaS solutions built for the modern marketer. Visit prprophet.ai to learn more.

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The Marketing Cloud, formerly known as Stagwell Marketing Cloud, launches its next chapter with a new name

New platform delivers seamless access to AI-powered solutions in a single dashboard

NEW YORK, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, The Marketing Cloud (formerly known as Stagwell Marketing Cloud) announced the launch of its new platform. This dynamic, centralized experience makes it easy for marketers to discover AI-powered products across market research, communications, creative, and media—boosting collaboration and driving results with the latest tech.

Designed to cut through the complexity of today’s fragmented martech ecosystem, The Marketing Cloud Platform helps marketers focus on impact—not tool management.

The Marketing Cloud includes products like QuestBrand and QuestDIY from The Harris Poll, the PRophet suite of tools for comms professionals, The People Platform, CUE, and SmartAssets—all supported by an underlying ID Graph that enables streamlined data connectivity. The new name reflects the company’s evolution toward greater simplicity, integration, and AI-driven performance.

Key benefits of The Marketing Cloud Platform include:

  • AI-powered solutions: Explore a curated marketplace of products designed to meet diverse marketing needs.
  • Supercharged team collaboration: Centralized workspaces and flexible data-sharing tools help teams work faster and smarter.
  • Seamless integrations: Combine solutions seamlessly to amplify performance and results.
  • Unified, hassle-free workflows: Save time with single sign-on and streamlined account management across products.
  • The power of proprietary data: Stagwell’s wealth of attitudinal and behavioral data provides a foundational, competitive edge for all of our products.

“Our vision for the Platform is to harness the full power of our data—the oxygen that fuels AI—making it accessible and actionable for every marketer. By integrating AI into every facet of the Platform, we aim to streamline repetitive tasks, scale high-performance content creation, and ultimately build a 24/7 marketing experience with AI agents that empower marketers to achieve more, wherever they are,” said Elspeth Rollert, CEO of The Marketing Cloud.

“Data is the backbone of the Platform—it’s not just vast, it’s uniquely actionable,” added Mansoor Basha, The Marketing Cloud’s CTO. “This foundation gives our AI models context and clarity. By infusing our tools with integrated attitudinal and behavioral insights proprietary to the Stagwell network, we enable marketers to make decisions grounded in how real people think, feel, and act.”

Early adopters of The Marketing Cloud Platform have found significant improvements in efficiency, cost savings, and marketing performance—demonstrating the platform’s potential to transform how teams work.

“By utilizing Propellers and SET through The Marketing Cloud Platform, we’ve reduced our expenses on external creative agencies by 70%, enabling us to eliminate agency fees and high production costs,” shared Julie Marchant-Houle, CEO of ESTYLE. “As a result, we have become more efficient, reallocating more funds into working dollars and providing us with a wealth of content that we wouldn’t have otherwise.”

The Marketing Cloud Platform is now available to marketers worldwide. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.themarketingcloud.com.

About The Marketing Cloud
The Marketing Cloud (formerly Stagwell Marketing Cloud) is a suite of AI-powered solutions built for the modern marketer. Born out of Stagwell’s (NASDAQ: STGW) award-winning network that delivers scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, The Marketing Cloud empowers brands to drive measurable business impact through intuitive solutions enriched with unique, actionable data. 

The Marketing Cloud’s solutions harness advanced technology—generative and predictive AI, machine learning, augmented reality, and more—to revolutionize market research, communications, creative, and media strategies for global brands. Get your head in the cloud at www.themarketingcloud.com.

About Stagwell

Stagwell is the challenger holding company built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 45+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.

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NEW YORK and CANNES, FranceJune 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —  Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, and Anzu, the world’s most advanced intrinsic in-game advertising platform, today announced a strategic partnership designed to help brands capitalize on the fast-growing gaming market. Stagwell and Anzu will collaborate to innovate new formats for bespoke in-game experiences for brands and bring Anzu’s cutting-edge in-game advertising solution to more companies worldwide.

As of 2024, there are over 3.3 billion gamers worldwide. Anzu enables advertisers to reach those gamers across mobile, PC, console and gaming metaverses with non-disruptive IAB-compliant ad formats that become part of the gameplay, appearing in locations where you would expect to see ads in the real world, like around sports stadiums, alongside racetracks, and on the sides of buildings. Backed by Sony Innovation Fund, Emmis, NBCUniversal, and other prominent investors, Anzu has brought measurement standards in-game and run award-winning campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands, such as Samsung, PepsiCo, and P&G.

The Stagwell network is on the forefront of immersive experiences, leading award-winning gaming activations and marketing for brands such as Blizzard EntertainmentMilkPepWells Enterprises, and more. Through its investments in technology, Stagwell has also created a first-of-its kind shared augmented reality platform, ARound, in use across three of America’s biggest professional sporting leagues.

This partnership will elevate both companies’ offerings in immersive gaming experiences. Stagwell’s clients will leverage Anzu’s platform for executing, measuring, and optimizing programmatic intrinsic in-game ads. Further, the Stagwell network of 70+ agencies worldwide – beginning with its digital transformation network Code and Theory – will collaborate with Anzu to develop new ad formats, content innovation, and dynamic activations.

“Consumers are clear: they crave immersive experiences over traditional ads and reward brands that activate authentically in gaming worlds. By combining Stagwell’s creative and digital prowess with Anzu’s cutting-edge tech, we are well positioned to transform how brands engage with this ever-expanding gaming audience,” said Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO, Stagwell.  

“Gaming, with its vast scale, attention-rich environments, and brand-safe 3D worlds, has all the ingredients to become a multi-billion-dollar ad medium,” said Itamar Benedy, Co-Founder and CEO of Anzu. “The collaboration with the Stagwell worldwide network and the creative minds at Code and Theory, combined with our unique technology, represents a significant leap forward for in-game advertising. This partnership will elevate the creative approach to advertising within games and push the boundaries of what’s possible in this medium.”

“At Code and Theory, we believe the future of brand engagement lies within the realms of immersive experiences. Our partnership with Anzu signifies a pivotal moment where creativity and technology converge to redefine in-game advertising. Together, we’re not just placing ads; we’re crafting seamless, authentic moments that resonate deeply with the gaming community, turning interactions into unforgettable experiences,” said Craig Elimeliah, Chief Creative Officer at Code and Theory.

Anzu joins a growing list of Stagwell’s unique technology partners, including Nexxen, MNTN, Google Cloud, and more, all dedicated to helping clients drive transformational outcomes with brand performance thinking.

About Anzu

Anzu is the most advanced intrinsic in-game ad solution for mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Anzu’s in-game ads put players first and help advertisers reach audiences programmatically in a non-disruptive and highly engaging way. A patented 3D ad tracking engine, the first to bring viewability measurement in-game with Oracle Moat and IAS, and partnerships with trusted AdTech vendors make Anzu the preferred in-game advertising partner. Learn more.

About Stagwell

Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com

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Generative AI is changing the marketing game. In April, Stagwell headed to Google Next to discuss that change, and what it means for Chief Marketing Officers and other C-Suite leaders in the next year.  

The event also marked Stagwell’s first software release via its Google Cloud partnership, introducing a data clean room to securely enhance client data with Stagwell’s extensive resources. More on that here.  

For now, hear from our at Stagwell Marketing Cloud and Left Field Labs about the three biggest takeaways from Google Next. 

The Sky’s the Limit But Use Cases are the Target

At Google Next – and at several marketing and technology conference this year, including CES and SXSW – the clear challenge to attendees was the two-step from theoretical implementations of AI to hard use-cases that provide value to consumers (and reasons for investment). It’s no wonder companies in attendance debuted over 101 real-world use cases for generative AI, spanning applications to consumer experiences, back-end-operations, insights, and more.  

Some common themes emerged as to where AI is providing the most immediate value:  

  • AI to accelerate the curation of essential business insights: AI21 Labs showcased how they use a BigQuery integration called Contextual Answers to allow users to query data across their businesses conversationally.  
  • AI to put the power of storytelling in everyone’s fingertips. Google unveiled Google Vids, a new AI-powered video creation app in its Workspace suite that can do everything from generate a storyboard, piece together first drafts of videos from stock multimedia, and do voiceovers.  
  • AI to bring real-time tracking to the customer experience: UPS is constructing a digital twin of its entire distribution network that will enable customers to see where their packages are at any time.

 

AI Will Mean a Rewriting of Every Customer Interface – Here’s Where to Begin

Artificial intelligence represents a quantum leap for creativity and productivity.  As a network on the beat of marketing, we know that AI’s rise will mean a rewriting of almost all customer interfaces as companies race to deliver consumers the personalized experiences they’ve desired since the dawn of the internet. At Google Next, Stagwell CTO Merrill Raman and Stagwell Marketing Cloud CTO Mansoor Basha emphasized that the first step brands should take to reap the benefits of AI should be assessing their organization’s data infrastructure to ensure it is primed for AI.  

Tactically, that may mean deep clean-up of existing first party data sources using data science best practices to get the information organized in a manner that AI can extract useful insights from. Or it may mean partnering with a third-party data provider who can supplement your view of existing and prospective consumers. 

AI Can Be the Bedrock for Trust, When Implemented Appropriately

As Left Field Labs CEO Sarah Mehler shared at Google Next: with growth in AI utilization, a critical question to consider is how do we build trust with audiences when considering AI implementation? Striking the right tone in AI-enabled communications is a primary step. And remember that communication that reflects cultural and demographic nuances is what ultimately resonates with audiences and builds trust in new systems. Well-practiced organizations will apply sentiment analysis to better understand the emotions of a user and provide appropriate responses (thus driving traction and building more successful outcomes).  

Attention to detail is also crucial for building trust in AI implementations. A “Chain of Verification” is one of several methods that can be employed to enhance the accuracy of information provided by AI systems. This process involves multiple steps to validate information before it is conveyed to the user. For instance, after our language model generates a response, we can employ a separate validation model to scrutinize the facts within that response. This secondary check helps to identify and correct any inaccuracies or ‘hallucinations’—instances where the model generates false or misleading information. By systematically verifying data through multiple layers, we can provide more reliable and trustworthy outputs. 

Wondering where to begin with AI implementation in your organization?

Email Beth Sidhu, Chief Brand and Communications Officer at Stagwell, to discuss how we can support your organization’s digital goals. 

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NEW YORKApril 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) Marketing Cloud today announced it is developing a new data clean room (DCR) solution built on Google Cloud to facilitate a secure and private space for clients and agencies to upload and match their first-party data with proprietary data from Stagwell sources.

Through the DCR, clients can gain valuable insights into consumer behavior and marketing efficacy, while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Clients will be able to match their first party data with Stagwell’s Consumer Understanding and Engagement platform (CUE), Harris Poll Syndicated Research Data and National Research Group data, as well as additional Stagwell and third-party sources, and then activate those audiences directly across preferred ad tech platforms in an easy and cost-efficient manner.

“Our end goal is to reduce any friction for our clients and their ability to share data in a privacy-centric way,” shared Merrill Raman, Global Chief Technology Officer at Stagwell. “For clients, matching their data within our data clean room grants them unparalleled access to the rich and proprietary data that Stagwell has collected and serves as a single source of truth towards understanding campaign performance in an omnichannel world.”

“We’re excited to continue working with Google Cloud to build the next chapter of digital marketing solutions and keep Stagwell’s agencies at the forefront of marketing outcomes,” shared Mansoor Basha, Chief Technology Officer at Stagwell Marketing Cloud.

This is the second engagement Stagwell has pursued with Google Cloud. In November 2023, Stagwell announced a partnership with Google Cloud to develop marketing use-cases for Generative AI.  

“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Stagwell to bring more actionable business insights to customers,” said Kelly Sitarski, Director of Data and Content Partnerships, Google Cloud. “Using BigQuery, Stagwell can combine, streamline, and optimize its diverse data sources to help marketers achieve their business goals.” 

About Stagwell
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.

About Stagwell Marketing Cloud 
Stagwell Marketing Cloud (SMC) is a marketing-focused, AI-enablement platform built for the modern marketer. Born out of Stagwell’s (NASDAQ: STGW) network of award-winning marketing agencies, SMC’s technology empowers marketers to drive business impact by giving them intuitive tools equipped with proprietary, actionable data. SMC’s portfolio of solutions powers strategic consumer research, communications, and media activation for brands worldwide by leveraging technology such as generative and predictive artificial intelligence, shared augmented reality, and more. Get your head in the cloud at www.stagwellmarketingcloud.com.

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Stagwell believes AI is a quantum leap for creativity and productivity, and we are organizing our offerings around the “Three E’s of AI”: enablement across operations, efficiency in marketing and engagement with customers. We have taken a number of steps in the past quarter as we look to lead the AI-based transformation of marketing services, and we are heading into 2024 with one mission: to help clients embrace this new chapter of value creation.

I’m proud to share an update on digital innovation at Stagwell over the past quarter. If you have questions about any of the below, please reach out to me to discuss. We will also be at CES in January 2024 hosting a series of conversations and experiences at the intersection of business, marketing and impactful technology; check our website for opportunities to connect.

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In a move that will accelerate our product development capabilities in the Stagwell Marketing Cloud, we have entered a unique partnership with Google Cloud to develop generative AI marketing solutions for our clients. This collaboration will accelerate our ability to identify, build and scale AI products, getting market-shifting technology in the hands of our partners faster than ever. We are united with Google in our aim to democratize access to the value large language models and gen AI tools can bring to enterprise. We will begin development immediately on solutions spanning brand campaigns, data analytics and insights, and a proprietary Stagwell LLM purpose-built for our clients. Read more in this Digiday exclusive.

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We launched significant enhancements to SMC’s AI-driven marketing tools in Q3, beginning with the debut of Harris Quest, a suite of integrated AI-based marketing research products including self-service polling and other “instant information” SaaS solutions. AI is an enabler for more performative business intelligence, and through HarrisQuest, we’re arming modern leaders with on-demand “research-as-a-service,” helping them keep ahead of the breakneck pace of consumer opinion. Elsewhere in the Cloud, we bolstered PRophet, our AI tool for communicators, with new influencer discovery and campaign management capabilities, as well as machine-learning based news monitoring. With PRophet, we’re quickly building a viable competitor to the integrated comms tech suites in the market today.

Adding to AI Capabilities with Left Field Labs Acquisition

Stagwell’s network grew in Q3 with the acquisition of Left Field Labs, a digital agency with expertise in AI and cutting-edge consumer experiences. Left Field Labs has built a 15-year track record of developing digital experiences never imagined before for blue-chip clients across tech, telecoms and business services, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber and Cisco. The agency’s major projects include helping Verizon to define and commercialize its 5G services and game engine Unity to reimagine remote entertainment with EDM music. Left Field Labs will join the Constellation Network to develop a bench of solutions integrating AI, immersive experiences and enterprise transformation. Read more about the acquisition in Ad Age.

Leading on Out-of-Home with Goodstuff and Assembly’s OVO Energy Campaign 

Outside the realm of AI, our agencies are working with clients on unique technology integrations to major brand efforts. In the digital out of home space, our media firms Goodstuff and Assembly collaborated to help OVO Energy in the U.K. launch a series of digital billboards that only appear when the National Grid is running on renewable energy. So that the billboards update data in real time, Goodstuff and Assembly established a programmatic buying technology that auto-bids when the grid is greener. The project builds on OVO’s “Power Move” platform, which rewards customers for shifting energy use to off-peak times when the grid is powered by renewables. The high-tech campaign appeared across more than 2600 screens and garnered big attention across the U.K. marketing industry. Read more in Campaign UK

Winning Awards for Digital Transformation

Finally, our digital transformation network Code and Theory, which includes Kettle and Mediacurrent, is picking up recognition after recognition for its remarkable digital experiences. In the past quarter, Code and Theory won six coveted W3 awards, recognizing the best in digital experiences, content and creativity. The awards – 3 Gold and 3 Silver – reflect client work for YETI, Tipico, Departures and the Georgia Department of Agriculture. We’re especially proud of Code’s work for YETI, “Year in Preview,” which was a first-of-its-kind interactive experience that allowed users to personalize a calendar of over 135 events spanning hunting, surfing, rodeo and other active communities. In addition to its W3 wins, the work received recognition in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design awards this year.

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