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Pernod Ricard becomes Paris Saint-Germain’s official partner
Mumbai: Pernod Ricard has announced its official partnership with Paris Saint-Germain. This new global partnership, the first of its kind for Pernod Ricard, will feature the entire portfolio of the group’s premium brands. The four-year agreement is set to begin this 24/25 season and will span across PSG’s professional teams; men’s and women’s football as the official partner and handball, as an official provider.
Pernod Ricard has been the official wine and spirits provider for PSG’s hospitality program for over a decade. With more than 218 million followers worldwide, PSG is a global club and iconic brand, ranked third in Deloitte’s Money League. Pernod Ricard is now a worldwide official partner and will exclusively supply champagne and spirits for the club, gaining dedicated visibility, communications rights, and the opportunity to create tailored experiences.
This partnership brings together two globally recognized brands with a shared mission to celebrate victories, sportsmanship, and human connections. Together, they will create on-the-ground experiences that reflect the values of French savoir-faire and culture on a global scale.
Pernod Ricard EVP global brands Philippe Guettat said, “In recent weeks the whole world has observed how sport is about audacity, passion, and coming together; values that fully resonate with Pernod Ricard’s purpose of being Créateurs de Convivialité. Through this partnership with Paris Saint-Germain, we want to celebrate the beauty of togetherness and achievement, through the magic of sport. We will be cheering on PSG and their great ambitions for the upcoming seasons.
Paris Saint-Germain director of partnerships and sponsorships Nicola Ibbetson said, “We are delighted to collaborate with Pernod Ricard, a prestigious partner that embodies the same passion for excellence, conviviality, and elegance as Paris Saint-Germain. This partnership is a perfect synergy, where each brand enhances the other, and together, we will elevate the PSG and Pernod Ricard experience to new heights on the international stage.”
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Stagwell expands Trade Desk tie up to deploy Koa Agents globally
AI agents to automate planning buying optimisation and measurement.
MUMBAI: Media buying may soon need fewer hands on keyboards and more prompts on screens. Stagwell has expanded its global partnership with The Trade Desk, becoming the first global marketing network to adopt Koa Agents, an alpha-stage, agentic AI system designed to overhaul how digital advertising campaigns are run.
At its core, Koa Agents flips the traditional workflow. Instead of manually configuring campaigns step by step, marketers can simply describe their objectives, with AI agents executing, optimising and refining campaigns in real time. Tasks that once took days from audience segmentation to performance analysis are now automated and continuously adjusted as conditions shift.
The integration will connect Koa Agents with Stagwell’s proprietary media ecosystem through The Trade Desk’s Open Agentic Kit, effectively stitching together planning, activation, measurement and optimisation into a single, automated loop.
The first phase of deployment will focus on two key areas. For audience planning, traders can define target segments while Koa Agents identify high-value consumers, activate campaigns across premium inventory and optimise performance dynamically. On the supply side, the system introduces deeper transparency, using quality signals such as ad-to-content ratios and refresh rates to prioritise inventory, while offering clearer visibility into pricing and margins during live campaigns.
The rollout will also introduce a conversational interface, allowing traders to query campaign performance in plain language, why it is underperforming, what is driving results, and what to change receiving real-time, actionable recommendations.
Stagwell plans to make these capabilities available to select clients in a closed beta later this summer, with a broader roadmap aimed at automating the full campaign lifecycle, including setup, troubleshooting and predictive optimisation.
The move builds on an existing partnership between the two companies, including Stagwell’s adoption of Unified ID 2.0, The Trade Desk’s privacy-focused identity framework. Combined with Koa Agents, this is expected to sharpen audience targeting, streamline cross-channel activation and improve measurement accuracy.
As advertising grows more complex behind the scenes, both companies are betting that the front end can become radically simpler where campaigns are less about clicks and controls, and more about outcomes and intent.
