Mindshare (firm)

Mindshare Media Ltd. is a global media and marketing services company formed in 1997. As one of the world's largest media agencies, Mindshare is responsible for a large majority of GroupM/WPP's global marketing billings and campaigns.

Mindshare Media Ltd.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Advertising, Marketing
Founded	1997; 28 years ago (1997)
Headquarters	New York City, London
Key people	Adam Gerhart (CEO)
Number of employees	9,300[1]
Parent	GroupM[1]
Website	mindshareworld.com

Mindshare's achievements include the Dove Natural Women & Snapchat Hack campaigns, the first Global Media Agency to gain accredited Actions on Google channel partners status, and many others that have won global awards.^{[citation needed]}

History

The company was created by the merger of the media operations of JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, then the two big full service advertising agencies within WPP Group. The launch team comprised Mandy Pooler and Nick Emery from O&M and Ron de Pear^[2] and James Walker from JWT. Initially the business faced strong opposition to the merger from the American agency parent GroupM.^[3] The Mindshare global network consists of approximately 10,000 employees across 115 offices in 82 countries throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.^[1]

Mindshare USA LLC has 11 offices across the U.S. and Canada with billings of $9.96 billion (according to the media agency monitoring body, RECMA).^[4] Phil Cowdell has been head of North American operations since 2009.^[5]

Mindshare Media UK Ltd, founded in 1998, is based in London, where Jem Lloyd-Williams is CEO.^[6]

Mindshare Nederland was established in 1999 by Ton Schoonderbeek, now regional leader and chief executive for the company's Benelux countries (including Scandinavia).^[7]