ECI Media Management | Top 10 Media Predictions for 2026
Discover the ten trends that will define media investment in 2026, from consolidation and AI to evolving measurement, retail media and the increasingly urgent need for transparency.
How SaaS and proprietary platforms are reshaping the media agency model
- How media agencies are building SaaS and proprietary platforms, what it means for advertisers, and the risks and safeguards to evaluate before adopting them.
Omnicom and IPG: Scale, consolidation and the impact on advertisers
- What the Omnicom–IPG merger means for advertisers, from scale and AI capabilities to competition, fees, and transparency.
The Warner Bros. Discovery bidding war reshaping Hollywood - and what it means for advertisers
- Warner Bros. Discovery is in play, with Netflix and Paramount competing to acquire it. What would a deal mean for advertisers?
Global overall media inflation set to fall to lowest level in over a decade
- Global overall media inflation forecast to fall to its lowest level since 2014. ECI's 2026 Media Inflation Report is out now.
The importance of women's groups in the advertising industry
- Women are an increasingly prominent force in the ad industry; the groups they form are leading the advancement of disciplines such as marketing procurement