{"id":69317,"date":"2026-05-20T21:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/69317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:44:46","slug":"switzerland-is-no-longer-neutral-liveramp-faces-risk-of-client-pullback-under-publicis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/69317\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Switzerland Is No Longer Neutral&#8217;: LiveRamp Faces Risk of Client Pullback Under Publicis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>    &#8216;Switzerland Is No Longer Neutral&#8217;: LiveRamp Faces Risk of Client Pullback Under Publicis<\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Hero-Publicist-LiveRamp.png\" class=\"image w-100 rounded-0\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hero-Publicist-LiveRamp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Will agencies defect in the wake of the $2.2 billion acquisition? Many believe so.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a key=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/contributor\/robert-klara\/\" class=\"author d-flex justify-content-center  position-static\" style=\"top: 0px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img width=\"500\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Robert-Klara.jpg\" class=\"contributor-img img-fluid object-fit-cover image image--avatar lazyload rounded-circle\" alt=\"Robert Klara\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/event.adweek.com\/awh-cannes-2026?itm_source=articletop&amp;ref=articlebox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes Lions<\/a> is where the biggest ideas take center stage. <a href=\"https:\/\/event.adweek.com\/awh-cannes-2026?itm_source=articletop&amp;ref=articlebox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join ADWEEK<\/a> for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Publicis Groupe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/agencies\/publicis-to-acquire-liveramp-for-22-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$2.2 billion acquisition<\/a> of LiveRamp this week, the biggest question the industry is asking is whether the data onboarding and collaboration platform can maintain its neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Scott Howe often refers to LiveRamp as the industry\u2019s \u201cSwitzerland\u201d when it comes to its agnosticism. The company plugs into the data stacks of thousands of tech platforms, publishers, and agencies, often who compete with one another. <\/p>\n<p>But in the days since the acquisition, agencies are questioning whether they want to keep working with a company that\u2019s now owned by one of their biggest competitors.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/contributor\/robert-klara\/\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"500\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Robert-Klara.jpg\" class=\"contributor-img img-fluid object-fit-cover image image--avatar lazyload rounded-circle\" alt=\"Robert Klara\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"text-decoration-none fw-bold text-uppercase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/contributor\/robert-klara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Klara<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center text-sm-start font-body mb-0\">Robert Klara is the senior editor of brands at Adweek, specializing in the evolution and impact of brands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#8216;Switzerland Is No Longer Neutral&#8217;: LiveRamp Faces Risk of Client Pullback Under Publicis Will agencies defect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[37230,37231,37232,2262,17],"class_list":["post-69317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-ad-tech-industry-news","tag-agencies","tag-merger-acquisition-news","tag-premium","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116609093920457947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}