He served as suffect consul in 18 with Gaius Rubellius Blandus as his colleague.
[2] His relative (perhaps brother) Lucius Vipstanus Gallus served as praetor and died in 17.
[4] Marcus’s suffect consulship in 18 may have begun in August or October, possibly replacing Gaius Annius Pollio who abdicated before the year’s end.
[2][6] His son, Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola, became an ordinary consul in 48, and another son, Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus, served as suffect consul in the same year.
[7] Some genealogies also link him with Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus, consul in 59, suggesting a possible connection to the gens Apronia.