Category: Agency Contracts

Agencies must stand firm on protecting their pitch IP from being abused. But advertisers can do so much just by taking an ethical stance, as discussed here.

‘Brain-rape’ is when advertising agencies have the ideas they use in a pitch, stolen after they lose. Does it happen and can agencies protect themselves?

Contracts are not the most exciting of documents. But when you consider they set the terms and conditions for possibly millions of dollars in spend you cannot disagree they are important. But often they are overlooked. The fact is that the scope of these relationships are becoming increasingly complex. In media alone, few contracts drafted three years ago would have the clauses to cover programmatic buying and trading desk arrangements. Likewise many agency contracts still struggle with defining a copyright clause that is workable for all involved when it comes to digital programming.

Wikipedia says an SLA is a formally negotiated agreement between two parties. It is a contract that exists between customers and their […]