In what it claims to be an industry-first, WPP Media this morning unveiled what it calls a "Large Marketing Model" capable of turning "trillions of data signals into predictive actionable intelligence, so you can perform in every channel, every market and with every consumer globally."
Or at least, that's what a freshly YouTube-posted sizzle reel (see above and below) claims.
The new "LMM" is named "Open Intelligence," and the reel, press release and press contacts assert it is -- to their knowledge -- an industry-first data platform capable of what sounds like Singularity-level omniscience: "It’s always-on, predictive intelligence, active everywhere, refined in real-time by the results it drives, creating the world’s most sophisticated feedback loop."
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The announcement says the platform/model enables that capability by combining "your data, WPP data, and the data of 350-plus global partners and platforms -- even walled gardens."
WPP Media disclosed nearly a dozen of Open Intelligence's partners, including FreeWheel, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap, TikTok, Adelaide, Adstra, Circana, Experian and Lumen Research, but did not state explicitly how they are integrated.
Asked what Open Intelligence enables WPP Media clients to do that they couldn't do before, a spokesperson bulleted five industry breakthroughs:
It even has a tag line: "This is intelligence beyond ID."
Not to mention a unique selling proposition: "The intelligence covers every part of your marketing mix: owned, earned, shared and paid."
Well I certainly wish WPP Media success with its new model--or models. It reminds me of those bygone days when BBDO and the other large agencies competed with computerized "media selection models". Once BBDO broke the lid on this idea, everyone simply had to develop their own model, which in a way was a good thing as it prompted me and a few other like minded folks to revolutionize the media audience studies, including Nielsen, creating a ton of useful marketing data for advertisers as well as covering many more bases for the media--demographics, cross platform reach and even attentiveness, which I pioneered.
I wonder how long it will take before we see similar announcements from the other large agency media consortiums. Can they afford to sit idly by and let WPP Media rule the roost with this very interesting initiative?