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2025: The Year Media Had to Choose

The holding companies consolidated, WPP collapsed, and publishers lost traffic to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, nobody's figured out what comes next.

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Dec 18, 2025
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Outgoing CEO Mark Reed and WPP staff win the Creative Company of the Year Award at Cannes Lions 2025 - photo John Rahim
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