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Mercedes-Benz elevates Pradeep Srinivas as marketing head
MUMBAI: German premium carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday rejigged its sales and marketing unit and brought in Pradeep Srinivas as head of the marketing and customer services, replacing Amit Thete.
Srinivas will be taking the responsibility of marketing and customer journey from 17 May, Mercedes-Benz India said in a statement.
He was earlier helming the company’s e-commerce, data management and system functions. In his new position, he will be responsible for managing Mercedes-Benz India’s vehicle preparation centre (VPC), outbound logistics and dealer stock management, it said.
Thete will be moving to head the sales operations, the luxury carmaker said, adding that the new role of sales operations will be a significant catalyst for Mercedes-Benz’s future growth and customer centricity.
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WPP and Adobe deepen AI partnership for marketing
Expanded tie-up integrates Firefly into WPP Open for agentic workflows across creative and media.
MUMBAI: WPP and Adobe just teamed up to give marketing a brain transplant because when AI agents start calling the creative shots, even the toughest briefs might finally get solved. WPP and Adobe announced on 24 February 2026 a deepened global partnership aimed at untangling the chaos of modern marketing through a tightly integrated suite of AI tools. The collaboration fuses Adobe’s generative AI models, content platforms, and data orchestration capabilities with WPP’s strategic, creative, and media expertise, creating what the companies call a unified end-to-end marketing solution.
At the core is WPP Open, the agency group’s agentic marketing platform which will now embed Adobe Firefly Foundry. This allows brands to train generative AI models on their own cleared intellectual property, ensuring brand-safe content from the outset. Adobe agents will handle content creation and adaptation, while WPP agents optimise media spend and activate campaigns across channels.
The move addresses a mounting industry pain point: brands must churn out more content, across more platforms, for narrower audiences, all while keeping consistency intact. Fragmented tools and siloed workflows often slow production and dilute impact. The partnership promises to automate complex, multistep tasks planning, creation, production, and activation into a single AI-enabled flow, freeing human teams for higher-level creativity.
WPP chief technology officer Stephan Pretorius said, “For years, we’ve watched brilliant creative ideas get stuck in production queues… With Adobe, we’re shattering the barriers between ideation and impact, building agentic content systems that handle the complexity so human creativity can soar.”
Adobe president of customer experience orchestration business Anil Chakravarthy added, “Marketing and creative teams today understand the high bar consumers have set for personalisation… Bringing together capabilities across Adobe and WPP provides a seamless way for brands to address this challenge, activating AI agents to drive customer experience orchestration and unlock personalisation at scale.”
Both companies emphasised the continued centrality of human talent. They plan to train and deploy creative AI forward-deployed engineers in the coming years to help clients maximise AI-driven workflows and prepare marketers to collaborate with agentic systems.
For an industry drowning in content demands and tool sprawl, this alliance could be the life raft turning fragmented chaos into coordinated firepower, one AI agent at a time. Whether it truly unshackles creativity or just adds another layer of tech remains the real test, but the pitch is clear: let machines sweat the complexity, so humans can shine at what they do best.
