Mindshare dominates in new business, can step up in other areas

For an agency that first lost its global CEO Nick Emery and then its APAC leader Amrita Randhawa, Mindshare’s sustained growth is remarkable. WPP’s perennial top media performer was on a business tear in 2021, winning new businesses and retaining contracts, even as it launched a bunch of new innovations and continued to work to improve its performance on DEI and sustainability. With most consumers and clients in APAC yet constrained by the pandemic,

While we’re used to Mindshare showing off many new innovations, this year, the agency was more tempered in its approach, focussing on adding muscle to previous years’ work and not really showing off many shiny new ideas.

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