Background
WPP is the worldโs largest advertising holding company by revenue.1Eva Mathews & Sarah Young. โAdvertising group WPP to merge two major creative agencies,โ Reuters, October 17, 2023. Archived October 17, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MNmV0 Through its numerous subsidiaries, including VML and Ogilvy, WPP has worked for fossil fuel clients including Saudi Aramco2“Campaign Middle East – Saudi Arabia Report 2022,” page 32. Campaign Middle East, published on Issuu, May 31, 2022. Archived .pdf available at DeSmog., Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies.
WPP is based in London.
Funding
WPP reported revenue of ยฃ11.8 billion ($14.38 billion) with pass through costs removed for 2022; with pass through costs included, its revenue was ยฃ14.4 billion ($17.5 billion).3“Annual Report 2022,โ WPP, March 23, 2023. Archived July 14, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/nGlMH
Stance on Climate Change
WPP pledged to reach net-zero emissions from its direct operations by 2025, and across its supply chain by 2030.4“Annual Report 2022,โ WPP, March 23, 2023. Archived July 14, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/nGlMH
WPP had 55 contracts with fossil fuel clients across 2022 and 2023, more than any of the other five major holding companies in the advertising industry, according to a report by Clean Creatives.5“The F-List 2023,” Clean Creatives, September 19, 2023. Archived September 19, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.is/kCbeA
Key People
Position | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |
Roberto Quarta | Chairman | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Mark Read | CEO | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Joanne Wilson | CFO | Y | ||||
Andrew Scott | COO | Y | ||||
Angela Ahrendts DBE | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Simon Dingemans | Director | Y | Y | |||
Sandrine Dufour | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Tom Ilube CBE | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Cindy Rose OBE | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Keith Weed CBE | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Jasmine Whitbread | Director | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang | Director | Y | Y | Y |
Clients
Actions
December 2021
At the World Petroleum Congress in Houston, Texas, ExxonMobil featured an augmented reality experience, which claimed the fossil fuel corporation was developing carbon capture and storage technologies to reduce industrial emissions by up to 90 percent.214“ExxonMobil is Using An Innovative AR Experience To Showcase How Carbon Capture Storage Can Remove 90% of Industrial CO2 Emissions,” Groove Jones, January 17, 2022. Archived June 9, 2023 Group SJR, a subsidiary of WPP-owned Hill + Knowlton Strategies, partnered with Groove Jones to create the presentation.
June 19, 2020
Group SJR submitted two applications for a public relations industry award on behalf of its work for ExxonMobil.215“The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change,” House Natural Resources Committee Staff Report, September 14, 2022. Archived May 11, 2023. Archived .pdf copy available at DeSmog. The U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee later obtained the award applications and published them in a 2022 report, โThe Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change.โ
Group SJR ran the ExxonMobil website energyfactor.exxonmobil.com, which sought to โhighlight ExxonMobilโs commitment to innovation, research, and emissions-reducing technologies,โ according to the award submission.216“The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change,” Appendix 1, House Natural Resources Committee Staff Report, September 14, 2022. Archived May 11, 2023. Archived .pdf copy available at DeSmog. The site was aimed at least in part at โskeptics of the brandโ to show that the energy industry is โdeveloping safe and reliable energy sources not only for today, but for the future, while also mitigating the risks of climate change,โ Group SJR wrote. The site featured articles about algae as biofuel and carbon capture. Thirty million unique readers visited the Energy Factor website from its launch in 2016 to June 2019, according to the award submission.
The second award application Group SJR submitted focused on its โNatural Gas PB&Jโ video ads for ExxonMobil, which ran on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter.217“The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change,” Appendix 2, House Natural Resources Committee Staff Report, September 14, 2022. Archived May 11, 2023. Archived .pdf copy available at DeSmog. Group SJR styled the ads to resemble Buzzfeedโs โTastyโ videos, which were popular with young audiences. โUsing a contemporary video style to convey hot-button topics, Group SJR and ExxonMobil aimed to reach Gen Z,โ the WPP subsidiary explained in the award submission. Group SJR wrote that the ads showed how โExxonMobil is helping to keep emissions down as a leading supplier of cleaner-burning natural gas.โ
Source: X218โNatural gas and renewable energy work great on their own but better together. Kind of like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Watch how.โ @ExxonMobil X Account, December 5, 2019. Archived August 31, 2022.
2019
Group SJR, created the social media campaigns for ExxonMobil, โOpportunity Begins with Energyโ219โExxonmobil Corporate,โ Wyndham Stopford, Archived October 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UoXnE and โSoothing Science.โ220โ2020 Finalists and Winners,โ Content Marketing Awards, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Cqv3H The ads ran on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.221“About,โ Wyndham Stopford, . Archived October 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/YBmTw
May 2018
Norwegian oil and gas giant Statoil dropped โoilโ from its name and rebranded as Equinor.222“Equinor – The New North Star,” WPPed Cream, 2019. Archived October 22, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/k4lBr Superunion, a WPP subsidiary known as Design Bridge and Partners as of October 2023, led the rebranding campaign. โStatoil needed to rebrand, to reflect its transformation from an oil and gas producer to a broad energy company, committed to people and a more sustainable future,โ wrote Superunion in a campaign description for an internal WPP award.
Superunion used renewable energy and nature imagery in advertisements for the new Equinor brand.223“Greenwashing Files: Equinor,โ Client Earth. Archived June 11, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/FIaT4 In 2017, Statoil invested five percent in what it calls โnew energy solutions.โ224Joachim Dagenborg & Nerijus Adomaitis. โStatoil to rebrand as Equinor in green energy push,โ Reuters, March 15, 2018. Archived March 27, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UqQt1 In an announcement about the rebrand, Statoil said it planned to spend 15 to 20 percent of its capital spending on โnew energy solutionsโ by 2030.225“Statoil to change name to Equinor,โ Equinor, March 15, 2018. Archived July 30, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Aqgw1 In its 2018 annual report, Equinor announced that the company had increased oil and gas production and planned to continue increasing production with new oil exploration licenses around the world.226“2018 Annual report and Form 20-F,โ page 7. Equinor, March 2019. Archived .pdf available at DeSmog.
Contact & Address
London Headquarters
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18 Upper Ground London
London SE1 9GL
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Social Media
CORRECTION (12/09/2024): The profile has been updated to remove the value of the Wavemaker – Chevron contract, previously stated as 60 million USD, as this figure refers to the value of Chevronโs global media account, rather than the contract value.
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