Author: Sara Guaglione

Publishing execs aren’t convinced if — or when — Google Zero will happen, but they’re preparing for the worst anyway: a future where Google search stops driving traffic to their sites, and becomes a destination for information.

The threat of this zero-click future feels more real after Google’s last developer conference, where execs announced sweeping, AI-powered changes to search designed to keep users on the search page. 

Publishers including Condé Nast and Time are strategizing for Google referral traffic tanking. Naturally, approaches vary depending on the publisher and how Google-dependent they are. Digiday spoke to six execs at large publishers about how they’re modeling for less Google traffic.

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Dentsu has undergone a shift in top management on a global scale, with new global CEO Takeshi Sano in charge of an agency holding company that sits just under the Big Three — Publicis, Omnicom and WPP — but has taken its lumps over the last few years as it tries to stay ahead of Havas and a raft of smaller holdco and independents clamoring to grow their businesses. 

Although the company has seen some executive turnover in the Americas, Beth Ann Kaminkow has now been in place as the CEO for the entire region for more than a year. She’s also charged with leading client service as global chief client officer. Meantime, at her side on the media end of Dentsu is a longtime Dentsu vet, Will Swayne, who’s global practice president of media and integrated solutions but has a long tenure within media agency Carat. 

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