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Procter & Gamble has selected independent ad server Flashtalking as its ad serving platform of record outside of the U.S.
It's a big client: P&G spends about $7 billion per year on advertising and Flashtalking will be responsible for holdings in 50 markets across the Americas, Europe and APAC. To note, that doesn't include the U.S., China or Russia.
The pairing could indicate a shift in P&G's marketing strategy, which operates more than 60 brands, reported my colleague Ronan Shields, into functioning as a portfolio of brands.
"So it’s not just about a brand that wants to sell you hair color, but maybe, the more they interact with you digitally, the more they understand that maybe they should position these other products that are also under our umbrella," Ana Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers, told him.
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