Ipsos (IPSOF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good morning from Paris and welcome to the half-yearly results for Ipsos. I am Ben Page, the Director General. I'm joined by my colleague Dan Levy, our CFO. And before we dig into these numbers that you've just seen in the video, I just wanted to comment on public opinion globally because, of course, we are Ipsos and that's one thing that we look at constantly. And I think what's important to remember is just the way in which inflation has for years now been the number one concern of the public globally. When we ask them what their biggest problem is, you can see one in four say it is their key problem and half are mentioning it as an overall issue, along with their own finances. And that's well ahead of any of the geopolitical tensions that bothered us in business or the march of technology. So it's very important to remember that because we're still facing consumers all over the world who despite inflation having fallen can remember of course what prices were just a few years ago and of course you can see here the overall proportion of people who say that they feel at high risk of from inflation. And in the last year, of course, we've seen inflation coming down, but the proportion of the public who are thinking about it as a key problem hasn't really changed at all, 32% to 31%. And so that's really important, I think, to remember when you're thinking about the general challenges facing many sectors of the economy who depend on consumer spending. Of course geopolitics is always with us and last time we spoke when I was presenting the Q1 results of course we remarked on the fact that for the first time ever in our tracking of different countries' reputations we had more people saying that China was a force for good in the world than the United States. This month you ...