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| Momentum grew strongly with core clients including Verizon and Nike and brought on a number of new clients, notably John Deere |
| We had very strong global growth at our media businesses |
| So clearly an amazing job this year in terms of protecting the margin |
| So health, as you know, a very, very strong performer for us over a long period of time |
| And as you could see, a number of them, quite a few of them, whether it's media, health, a lot of the experiential PR businesses are performing well for us |
| We're very strong in that regard |
| It's also worth highlighting that in the quarter we continue to see growth in areas of the business that have been key drivers of success for us over a number of years |
| Namely our media offerings, which performed very strongly and the healthcare sector |
| In addition we had solid growth in sports and entertainment marketing, public relations, and our experiential offerings |
| So that's a strength in terms of our asset and business mix |
| That said, we had anticipated that the puts and takes in Q3 would have netted to better revenue performance than reflected in our results today |
| The strength and strategic relevance of our offerings is evident in our new business wins year-to-date and our long-term record of organic growth |
| Notwithstanding these challenges, it's worth noting that we did see progressively better performance from month-to-month during the third quarter with growth in September |
| Our SC&E solution segment, as we mentioned, saw growth across all disciplines following a strong new business track record year-to-date in Q3, following one new business including Eve Air Mobility, Tapestry, the luxury brand holding company that owns Coach and Kate Spade, as well as Neutrogena, the Kenvue skincare brand |
| We had strong growth at our media offerings followed by increases at our sports and entertainment, exponential and public relations disciplines |
| We continue to see very strong growth in our media offerings |
| One, was accelerating growth of our media business, which did materialize with notably stronger performance in the third quarter than we've seen earlier in the year |
| In summary, on slide 12, our strong financial discipline continues and the strength of our balance sheet and liquidity mean that we remain well positioned both financially, as well as commercially |
| So we do see the ability to continue to increase our margins |
| We continue to be in market with relevant and compelling offerings that are helping marketers accelerate growth and deliver business outcomes and that has translated to new business success year-to-date |
| Within the MD&E segment, we had very strong growth at our media offerings, but that continued to be largely offset by challenges within the digital specialty agencies |
| We were led in the quarter by the strong growth of auto and transportation, followed by our other sector of diversified industrials and public sector clients, the financial services and healthcare sectors |
| The growth was pretty strong this quarter |
| And an important additional area for value creation is our longstanding and continued commitment to capital returns, which has been underscored by the execution of our share repurchase plan and consistent dividend growth over time |
| The result was adjusted EBITDA margin of 17.2%, an increase of 170 basis points from a year ago |
| And as was announced yesterday, we were pleased to see General Mills tap UM as their global media agency of record |
| Our media, data, and engagement solutions segment grew organically by 50 basis points |
| Turning to an overview of expenses and margin, operating discipline continued to be a strength and was fully in evidence during the quarter |
| I think notably during the quarter we brought three distinct media brand companies, KINESSO, Matterkind, and Reprise, under the KINESSO banner and brand to create a unified sector-driven performance unit that enhances the effectiveness, efficiency, and simplicity of media activation that is end-to-end across that values chain |
| And also to reiterate, we remain committed to our margin target for the year of 16.7%, 10 basis points ahead of last year |
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| These are in order of magnitude, the decrease in client activity in the tech and telecom client sector, which has been evident across our industry this year, and the underperformance of our digital specialist agencies |
| Lower revenue from clients in the tech and telecom sector and a more challenging macro environment was felt broadly across our more traditional consumer facing agency |
| Another key factor negatively impacting our results is the broad concern about marketers related to macroeconomic conditions, which we've identified on our previous call this year |
| Economic concerns have translated into what is now an unmistakably more cautious tone in the business |
| Decreases among tech and telecom sector clients and a more cautious macroeconomic environment continued to weigh on our performance |
| Our segment of integrated advertising creativity-led solutions decreased 4.1% organically, as the tech and telecom client sector and a more cautious spending climate weighed on our more traditional consumer advertising agencies |
| We saw those headwinds take several forms, including pauses in certain planned activities, fewer and generally smaller project opportunities, and a slower than anticipated pace in conversion and onboarding of new business |
| The tech and telecom sector decreased in the high-teens, the percentage basis, and this is not only due to the larger trend in the sector, but also in the significant client loss at McCann |
| Lower revenue in the U.S |
| Over the first nine months of the year our organic revenue decrease was 80 basis points |
| But as I did call out, we had a significant loss at McCann in the telco space, which is then going to extend that into next year |
| And this year is going to struggle, we know that |
| And I think that the incremental drag in Q3 was really there and to a much lesser extent, that some of the larger new business did not ramp at the pace that we anticipated |
| So I guess my question is what has changed most from your perspective over the last three months? It seems like the business did deteriorate in some ways versus your prior expectations |
| If you look at the balance of the year, the geopolitical situation in the Middle East does add a degree of uncertainty to our business |
| The same factors we've discussed as having impacted the first-half of the year continue to weigh on the third quarter |
| Our integrated advertising and creatively-led solutions segment decreased organically by 4.1% |
| Without question, organic revenue performance to-date this year is not consistent with our expectations or our long-term track record |
| was predominantly due to the sector and agency-specific challenges we've called out |
| Our organic decrease was 5%, compared to 5.6% growth a year ago, due to decreases in Japan and China |
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