New Podcast: Agency Business

This week has already been a busy one for the advertising agency industry. Madison and Wall corporate subscribers can read our takes on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger here and here, but for everyone we are excited to announce a new podcast, Agency Business.

Hosted by media analysts Brian Wieser of Madison and Wall and Olivia Morley of FusionFront Media, every Monday as we will explain the week's most relevant agency news and give you the context you need to navigate the industry. Through our interviews with agency CEOs and industry experts, we examine the latest business trends and how they're evolving. Check it out on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

With our guest Paul Woolmington, CEO of Canvas Worldwide, we talk about his experiences as a leader in the agency industry. We discuss a significant amount of history given his foundational role establishing media agencies as stand-alone businesses (at Y&R and The Media Kitchen) and co-founding Naked, which pioneered communications planning.

Although the podcast was recorded prior to the weekend’s M&A news, in our conversation we review agency industry news from the first week of December, last week’s industry news including IPG's sale of Huge and layoffs at Edelman, with a conversation focusing on the bigger picture impacting both of those businesses.

We hope you enjoy it! A link to the debut episode is below.