OUR SPONSORS
AGENCY MANIA SOLUTIONS
Agency Mania Solutions (AMS) is a Seattle-based company dedicated to revolutionizing the way global brands manage their agency relationships. As the industry leader in customizable Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, we understand the complexities of modern marketing landscapes and offer tailored software that evolves alongside your business needs. Our unmatched client/agency experience sets us apart, providing insights and best practices gleaned from years of experience on both sides of the relationship.
ALCHEMISTS
Alchemists is the marketing advisory firm brands turn to when they want to master GenAI—not just explore it.
We work with Marketing and Procurement teams to reimagine how agency ecosystems operate in a world where GenAI is reshaping creativity, production, and partnerships. We’ve already helped global brands drive real transformation—optimising agency models, benchmarking GenAI-driven solutions, and embedding AI into workflows for tangible impact.
GenAI isn’t new to us—it’s embedded in how we work. We run GenAI mastery programs, integrate AI into our own delivery, and ensure our clients are always ahead, not playing catch-up.
Rooted in both marketing and procurement, we bridge both worlds with solutions that drive efficiency, creativity, and results.
THE APERTO PARTNERSHIP
The Aperto Partnership is a leading independent, expert media advisor, run by Scott Moorhead and Andrew Mortimer. Aperto’s purpose is to drive positive change to help advertisers get the very best from their media investment and their agencies. The business provides specialist expertise in building effective media operating models for clients, and in media agency search and selection. The Aperto Partnership is an ISBA partner, launch supporter of the IPA and ISBA Pitch Positive Pledge, and is widely recognised as the market leader in building sustainable media agency relationships and commercial models. Recent clients include Sky, Barclays, L’Oréal, the BBC, Direct Line Group, Pets at Home, TUI Group, British Heart Foundation, MoneySuperMarket and Virgin.
APR
Advertising Production Resources (APR) is a Woman-Owned & Women-Led content creation optimization consultancy that oversees over $1 Billion in annual production spend and agency fees for approximately 70 advertisers around the globe. With hands-on production experience in TV, Print, OOH, Digital Videos, Web, Mobile, Social, and Experiential, our 150+ team members work with advertisers and their creative resources to establish best practices & locate efficiencies in their content creation ecosystems.
Claire RANDALL CONSULTING (CRC)
Claire Randall Consulting (CRC) is a global, strategic production management consultancy for advertisers looking to optimise their production spend. For more than 29 years we’ve been offering clients big agency expertise and in-depth local knowledge, facilitating impartial consultancy, collaboration and communication between the numerous partners involved in the production process. CRC is now a world-leading consultancy with more than 45 consultants across North America, Europe, Middle East and APAC.
DECIDEWARE
EBIQUITY
Ebiquity is the world leader in media investment analysis.
We deliver data driven solutions that create value and eliminate waste, enabling brand owners to increase returns from their media investments and improve business outcomes.
Our independent fact-based advice is delivered through four service lines:
- Media Management
- Media Performance
- Marketing Effectiveness
- Contract Compliance
ECI MEDIA MANAGEMENT
ECI Media Management is an independent media management consulting and advisory services company. We are proud to work with some of the world’s best-known brands, empowering marketers to drive growth, transformation and higher media value from their marketing investments in a rapidly changing media and business landscape.
We leverage the power of our proprietary technology, digital leadership, data-driven insights and forensic consulting approaches in all our service offerings.
flock
Flock is an independent marketing consultancy committed to reimagining and reengineering the future of the marketing operating model, making it fit for the future. Our proprietary technology and data power our consultants to create marketing ecosystem solutions that propel marketing to peak performance. We are “compulsive fixers”; fixing marketing strategies, skills & structures, marketing processes, marketing technology resources and agency rosters and supporting clients in developing sustainable business strategies to include diversity and inclusion practices.
HAVAS MARKET
Havas Market are the full-service global commerce proposition of Havas Media Network, spanning across 27 countries. Our team of over +200 eCommerce consultants and +600 retail media experts, deliver connected commerce experiences that drive incremental sales across marketplaces, direct-to-consumer channels, social commerce, and digital ‘drive-to-store’. Leveraging our broader Havas Media Network expertise, we optimize the entire path to purchase to create meaningful shopping experiences and achieve best-in-class service for our clients.
HAVAS Prose on pixels
A global content at scale network built to address the marketing challenges of today.
With our unique AI powered Audience-First production model, we Create, Scale and Personalise content to captivate audiences and achieve desired brand and business outcomes.
We deliver production with a performance mindset – resulting in harder working content, reduced waste, and stronger ROI.
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ID COMMS
Media is one of the largest investments that brands make. As this complex industry continues to evolve, it’s hard for even the most experienced brand leaders to know what’s actually working and what needs tweaking. Without a plan, brands risk losing money and falling behind their competition. Our evidence-based consulting gives brands a framework to remove waste and optimise the value of their media investments. Our clients are able to make more intelligent media decisions so they can trust that their investments will grow their brands.
INSPIRED THINKING GROUP (itg)
ITG is the leading Halo content partner to businesses around the world. It eliminates marketing complexity and delivers engaging content at speed and scale to drive business growth and reduce marketing costs. Clients include Heineken, Microsoft, Samsung, Haleon, KFC and more. ITG employs over 2,000 people throughout its global offices and its Storyteq platform is recognized by Gartner as a global Leader.
IDX
IDX, formerly Investis Digital, is a leading digital communications and data solutions business that helps companies waste less and grow more. With a distinct blend of content, media and technology expertise, combined with a 24/7 service model, IDX protects its clients’ digital assets and brand reputations 365 days a year. IDX is composed of a dedicated team of 600+ digital experts, product engineers, analysts and creatives, plus over 1000 vetted freelance specialists, located across eight global offices.
LOCARIA
Locaria is a pioneering global multilingual content adaptation agency. We specialise in supporting inhouse marketing activation, e-commerce content delivery, media agencies and creative production houses.
We build linguistics and creative adaptation solutions to scale content and campaigns across cultures, carefully balancing efficiency, effectiveness, creativity and quality.
We leverage specialist talent to ensure content is optimised to marketing objectives and platform requirements, while implementing the latest AI & technology solutions to provide scalability, cost efficiency and improved time to delivery.
MEDIASENSE
MediaSense are independent global media advisors, empowering the world’s leading brands to engineer greater productivity from their media investments, and design more agile and effective media operating models.
MediaSense partners with 60+ Global and UK brands to unlock media value, including Coca-Cola, Chanel, Adidas, Haleon, Dyson, and the UK Government.
MMC
Contract Compliance Auditing has become a regular practice for many advertisers due to the ever-increasing complexity of the media landscape. There are an increasing number of different organisations involved in the planning and buying supply chain, all with their own commercial interests, that are not always aligned with the interests of the client. Advertisers need to be sure that they have received the best independent advice that delivers in the transparency promises of their relationship and contracts. Contract Compliance Auditing does just that. But, it’s not just the media system that needs advertiser focus. We are seeing increasing opaqueness within the non-media supply chain and advertisers are auditing their creative, production and BTL agencies like never before.
With over 20 years’ experience conducting marketing compliance audits in over 110 countries, the Media Marketing Compliance Audit Team is a trusted local and global partner to leading advertisers, providing audit services all the way through the marketing supply chain.
MSQ
MSQ is a next-generation creative, technology and media company creating brand momentum for clients such as Unilever, Vodafone, Vitality, Diageo and Booking.com.
We are one of the world’s fastest growing marketing groups, offering flexibility, choice and transparency. Our clients can work with an MSQ agency on an individual basis, or with a joined-up team designed specifically around their needs.
Our agencies include:
Walk-In Media (full-service media
M3 Labs (Creative Production)
The Gate (creative and CRM)
Elmwood (branding and design)
Stein IAS (B2B marketing)
UDG, MMT and 26 DX (digital experience, product and transformation)
Smarts (PR and creative)
Miri Growth (mobile marketing)
MSQ Sport + Entertainment (sport and entertainment marketing)
26PMX (Performance Marketing)
SPCSHP (creative and content)
Over 1,850 people work at MSQ across 22 global offices. Unique to an international group of our scale and reach, more than 100 senior employees are shareholders in the group. In 2023 MSQ became a certified B Corp, meaning we meet a number of social and environmental standards covering five key impact areas of governance, environment, workers, community and customers.
MSQ
We’re M3 Labs, a global creative production company that helps brands create and scale marketing assets, distributing and personalising content in real time to the highest creative standards.
Our unique tech-led operating system recouples data, creative, production and media so brands can Make, Manage & Measure their content more effectively and create deeper connections with their customers.
Through seven global hubs and creator capabilities in 130+ markets, we’ve provided award-winning services for the likes of Diageo, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hitachi, Capital Group, Asics, Cancer Research UK and The Football Association.
Sustainability is integral to everything we do. This means we can generate cultural benefits, as well as providing costs savings to clients. We’re a certified B Corp and a member of AdGreen’s Advisory Board.
REDMILL
Redmill is a specialist media data management company, working with some of the world’s biggest advertisers. We’re obsessed with data quality and understand the value that comes from access to clean, harmonised global media data – a single source of media data truth. Quite simply, greater media data visibility produces better media investment control and decisions.
RIGHTSPEND
CMOs are under more pressure than ever to make every marketing collar count. Without RightSpend, it’s a shot in the dark. You don’t know where to deploy your budget, you don’t know where to focus negotiations with your agencies, and you don’t know where wastage is happening. RightSpend gives you the insight to ensure your agencies are paid fairly and, at the same time, you’re maximising your deliverables. Get your projects underway quickly, without being slowed down by negotiations or pricing queries. RightSpend streamlines the process.
SPRING Production
At SPRING Production, we have one mission above all others – to unlock your marketing potential. Brands and businesses operate in an ‘always on’ age where marketing needs to stretch further, strike harder and scale faster. The requirements are diverse and the demands ever changing. We do one very simple thing for our clients; we make it work. We work with marketing procurement, brand marketing and production teams to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies and deliver time and costs savings from the start.
STAGWELL
Born out of Stagwell’s network of 70+ award-winning marketing agencies, Stagwell Marketing Cloud’s goal is simple: Equip marketers with powerful, user-friendly technology so they can get a bigger seat at the table. A robust tech stack is no longer a nice-to have for marketing organizations, and at Stagwell Marketing Cloud, we’re pairing an innovation-first culture with decades of domain expertise to create the most effective tools on the market.
THE TEAM COMPANIES
Part of Cast & Crew’s distinguished collection of brands, The TEAM Companies (TTC) play an integral role in the process of managing the business details behind the creation of advertising content. From global talent and licensed element rights management to vendor payment management and royalty collections for original music used in their advertising, advertisers and their creative partners have access to TTC’s subject matter experts in rights management, performer, celebrity, and influencer payments; U.S. and Canadian talent union & labor law requirements; and the creation of custom workflows that align with a client’s unique approach to ad creation and the daily business initiatives that drive production.
STUDIOSPACE
The agency search process can be slow and costly. StudioSpace is here to change that.
Our on-demand agency marketplace systemises competition, choice and compliance for large corporates.
We supply over 400 independent, world-class agencies — each selected and vetted for their expertise in creative, marketing, digital and innovation.
With over 78 capabilities and spanning across 40 industries, our platform gets you 3 competitive agency proposals for your project in under 5 days.
StudioSpace is your one-stop agency procurement platform.
WELLCOM
We are wellcom – a creative content shop and integrated production agency where creative, strategy, technology and production work in perfect sync to deliver advertising that is effective, engaging and measurable across all channels and mediums at scale.
With all disciplines working together, our approach ensures seamless collaboration from start to finish, solving complex challenges efficiently by breaking down silos and avoiding any roadblocks along the way.
We believe that transparency, honesty and open communication are the foundation to build meaningful long term relationships both with our internal teams and client partners.
