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Stagwell

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Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot) (down 2.4 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-2.8pts) on signal share.

Stagwell: 4 signals in the last 90 days — above the Marketing & Advertising median of 2.5 across 4 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 4 tracked across 56 days.

Signals at Stagwell

Product Launch

EMEA

Stagwell is launching Stagwell Curate, an AI-powered media curation marketplace platform that centralizes CTV, online video, display and audio ad inventory from publishers and adtech partners, reducing reliance on third-party DSP/SSP solutions like The Trade Desk's OpenPath

Leadership read: Product momentum tends to widen marketing & advertising product and commercial leadership bench strength.

curated · 2026-07-16 · context →

Partnership

Americas

Stagwell won IBM's lead global creative agency mandate in July 2026, combining Code and Theory with Anomaly into an integrated team and ending IBM's long-running relationship with WPP's Ogilvy

Leadership read: Alliances like this can broaden marketing & advertising commercial leadership bench strength.

curated · 2026-07-07 · context →

Product Launch

Americas

Stagwell launched The Media Machine, an AI-powered media-side operating system extension of The Machine. It enables agentic buying, audience-first planning, and market mix modeling across integrated workflows with direct connections to Google GMP, Meta, Microsoft/LinkedIn, TikTok, and The Trade Desk.

Leadership read: Product momentum tends to widen marketing & advertising product and commercial leadership bench strength.

curated · 2026-06-19 · context →

Capital Raising

EMEA

ADW Capital Management invested $28 million in Stagwell after the company achieved record client wins, acquiring 5 million shares

Leadership read: Fresh capital usually broadens marketing & advertising leadership bench strength — scale, go-to-market and operational depth — rather than any single appointment.

curated · 2026-05-21 · context →

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