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A view from Omar Oakes: Don’t leave it to media shops to ‘do creative’

Why have ad agencies let media agencies increasingly take on the creative role?

Context is key in language, but one must always watch out for subtext – the hidden data that lurks behind what people say.
This came to mind after WPP chief executive Mark Read told Campaign in March: “We spend a tremendous amount of time worrying about media targeting… [but] not nearly enough to think about how to personalise the creative messaging.” Was he thinking about the launch of MediaCom Creative Systems, revealed a month later? The UK’s biggest media agency has launched a global division offering “addressable creative” and “creative analytics”, led by Mother co-founder and former Den


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