Hey folks. I’m a reporter at ADWEEK working on 2 deeply important Stagwell stories:

Internal response to Stagwell’s reported work with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the leak of the reputation research deck (via DropSite).
The agency network’s new partnership with Palantir and any concerns raised internally about employee values, privacy, or client ethics.

I'd like to hear directly from staff if you have any intel. Your identity will be protected. Please DM me. Thank you!

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Adweek reporter busyyyyy

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I am! Message me - lots of stuff to uncover :)

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It's not. If you want, we can chat privately on Signal. I'm trying to build sources beyond PRs and execs.

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I appreciate you working on this. Please don’t stop covering it.

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@OP not going to go on the record, but if you want to do some investigative reporting you should ask some retired agency leads what it meant if they/their holdco took on clients like this. It almost never happens unless it’s desperation.

In almost every case there’s a bigger story about the poor financial health of the company or one of the officers is messing with the accounting.

If I were a betting woman, I’d say Stagwell’s financials are not clean.

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Also you may want to look into details around the VML merge when that happened.

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This will go well, quoting anonymous people. 2025 quality.

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If you'd like to chat, we can go through Signal. I confirm identities privately but protect sources' identities publicly. Just trying to build sources.

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Yikessss!

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