Adobe and WPP: Connecting paid media intelligence with owned customer experiences and closing the loop on marketing performance

Nina Caruso

06-22-2026

Earlier this year, Adobe and WPP announced the expansion of a global partnership to deliver integrated agentic AI workflows and customer experience orchestration across WPP Open and Adobe's content, data and AI platforms. That announcement focused on collapsing the distance between creative ideation and activation. Since then, the partnership has deepened — and our latest integration is focused squarely on measurable business outcomes for the world's most ambitious brands.

For most organisations, paid advertising and owned marketing operate as separate disciplines with separate data, separate measurement and separate teams. Budgets run in parallel. Performance is attributed in silos. And the intelligence gathered in each channel almost never informs the other. The result: brands spend significantly to acquire and retain customers, then fail to use what they already know about those customers to make every subsequent dollar work harder.

Adobe and WPP are changing that. Together, we’re introducing a first-of-its-kind intelligence layer that unifies what brands spend in media with the customer experiences they own — turning two historically siloed investments into a single, compounding growth engine at enterprise scale.

How it works: a connected intelligence layer across the full customer lifecycle.

The Adobe-WPP integration, specifically between Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform Collaboration and WPP Open, will create a continuously improving loop across paid and owned channels.

Data flows bidirectionally. Adobe's first-party segments inform WPP's media activation. WPP's enrichment data deepens Adobe's audience intelligence. The result is a structural advantage that compounds with every campaign.

Adobe brings
WPP brings
  • First-party customer data and real-time segmentation
  • Behavioural signals, LTV modelling and churn prediction
  • Digital experience orchestration across owned surfaces
  • Privacy-compliant clean room data infrastructure and marketer-friendly data collaboration across trusted second-party and third-party context data
  • Agentic AI workflows for content creation and campaign execution
  • Proprietary psychographic and lifestyle audience intelligence
  • Media consumption data and transactional overlays
  • Cross-channel media planning, buying and optimisation
  • Audience overlap analysis and incremental reach tools
  • Agentic media activation across every paid channel via WPP Open
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Five high-impact use cases for global brands that drive business outcomes.

Joint Adobe-WPP clients can soon activate a connected set of capabilities spanning the full customer lifecycle — from acquisition through retention and revenue expansion — designed to turn the combined intelligence of both platforms into measurable business outcomes. The following use cases will be available soon:

Use case
What brands can do

Audience enrichment

WPP → Adobe

Enrich first-party customer profiles in Adobe with WPP's proprietary psychographic, lifestyle and media consumption data — creating highly actionable segments for personalisation and paid targeting.

Overlap analysis and budget efficiency

Bi-directional

Map Adobe's first-party audiences against WPP-managed media pools to quantify true incremental reach, surface gaps and eliminate duplicated spend on customers already active in owned channels.

Lapsed subscriber re-engagement

Adobe → WPP

Identify at-risk and lapsed subscribers through Adobe's behavioural signals, then activate co-ordinated paid re-engagement campaigns across display, video, social and CTV — before churn becomes permanent.

Upsell and cross-sell activation

Adobe → WPP

Score existing customers by product affinity and LTV trajectory, then co-ordinate paid media exposure with owned-channel offers to drive incremental revenue from the highest-probability conversion segments.

Lookalike prospecting

Adobe → WPP

Seed WPP's lookalike models from Adobe's highest-LTV customer segments to build prospecting audiences that convert at higher rates and lower cost-per-acquisition than traditional demographic targeting.
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Privacy and data architecture: designed for the enterprise.

All data collaboration between Adobe and WPP operates within a privacy-first, consent-compliant framework. Customer data is matched and activated through clean-room environments that prevent direct data transfer while enabling the audience intelligence that powers each use case.

Neither party transfers underlying identity or customer data. Matching and enrichment occur within a secure, auditable environment, with outputs limited to aggregated audience segments and activation-ready identifiers that comply with applicable data regulations and consumer consent frameworks.

Nina Caruso is a Group Manager of Product Marketing at Adobe, where she leads messaging, strategy and positioning for the customer data platform portfolio. Over the past 12+ years at Adobe, she has held leadership roles across Real-Time CDP, Audience Manager and consulting, helping enterprise brands drive more connected and data-driven customer experiences. Prior to Adobe, Nina held roles at Operative, bringing a strong blend of strategic march expertise with an ad tech background to her work with customers and partners.

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Close the loop between paid and owned media.
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Most brands spend heavily on paid media without connecting it to what they know about customers. Adobe and WPP are changing that.
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