Ipsos (IPSOF) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I'm Jean-Laurent Poitou, the Chief Executive Officer of Ipsos, and I'm delighted to be joined by you in presenting our third quarter results for the year 2025. I'm joined by Dan Levy, our Chief Financial Officer. Over the next 45 minutes or so, I will start by sharing a few observations about what I've seen since joining Ipsos last month. I'll share a little bit about myself, my background, and I'll talk about a few of the beliefs on which we will ground our strategy for the next few years. Dan will present our results, and we will open up, of course, for questions and answer session. Let me start with a few observations regarding what I've seen since joining Ipsos and spending time across various geographies with our clients, with our technology and digital partners, and most importantly with our teams. First of all, Ipsos has a unique position as an independent leader in market research. One of the characteristics that struck me most is the global reach and diversity of geographies, of sectors, of services we offer. No other firm have this combination of looking at in particular the people as citizens, as patients, as clients or customers who experience the channels and products of the companies we serve. that is combined with a long history. Ipsos is actually celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, which on top of the legacy it gives us, provides us with unmatched depth, breadth, and length of data which is the fuel without which no technology, digital and particularly artificial intelligence-based solution can be trained. The other thing I've been very impressed with is the robustness and diversity of our cadre of close to 20,000 people ranging from sociologists, project managers, researchers, data engineers, data s...