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What’s really driving adland’s evolution in 2024? The universal quest for simplicity.

on Jan 12, 2024 | 0 comments

By Jon Cook

As of the start of 2024, newly-merged VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson are officially, simply, ‘VML’. Here, the WPP outfit’s global chief executive says that simplicity is driving more than just consolidation.

Occam’s razor in colloquial terms is this: Fewer parts are typically better than many. Simple is typically better than complex.

Most would agree that, in almost every situation, everywhere, if we can keep things simple – without leaning into our all-too-human tendencies to overcomplicate seemingly everything – we’ll be better off. Our teams. Our clients. Our calendars.

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Source: The Drum