Ad Agencies are Complex Businesses. New Metrics are Needed for Improved Management
Agencies have developed hyper-targeted digital executions and ROI tools for clients. But they need to manage their own businesses better. Here's how.
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Global Marketing
Management Consultants
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Global Marketing
Management Consultants
Management Consultants
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Forget ‘The Agency of the Future.’ Fix ‘The Agency of Today’
The agency of the future gets a lot of attention in the press and at industry conferences. But is it just a wonderful dream? How can it be realised?
Managing Marketing: The Trials Of The Pitch Consultant
In this podcast Stephan Argent talks about his role as a pitch consultant and adviser to CMOs and CEOs for Canada’s largest corporations. Get the insights.
Will agencies absorb their advertiser budget reductions again?
In 2007 most agencies absorbed the significant cuts in their client’s advertising budgets. With Covid-19 damaging the economy, will they do the same again?
Managing Marketing: The Power Of Experience
Meredith Cranmer tries to clarify the confusions that often arise in the space between Public Relations, Events, Sponsorship and Experiential. Listen here.
Perspective on the digital supply chain debate
Last month, ISBA released the findings of their Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency study. We unpack the findings here. Find out what has been achieved.
Questions to ask and answer when an agency loses a pitch
No matter where or when in the pitch process an agency drops out, the big question is, “Why”? Here is a list of questions agencies can use to find out.
Is there an Advertising Industry ‘Normal’ to Return to after this Disruption?
The industry is certain to be in a worse situation post COVID-19 unless agency CEOs and advertiser CMOs redefine their priorities. What must change?
Managing Marketing: The Motivation Behind Starting an Advertising Agency
Chiquita King is the Managing Director and Ant Melder is the Creative Partner in the new agency Coffee Cocoa Gunpowder. Learn about their motivations in this podcast.
Managing Marketing Costs for 2020
Post Covid Marketing budgets are not just going to be smaller. They are going to be far more important. So here are the 3 steps a marketing team must take
The Next Big Thing in Media & Advertising: Simplification
Complexity has replaced simplicity and has grown without bounds. Excess complexity is a disaster. It's time to eliminate it. Learn how to simplify here.
Covid-19: Will it change Marketing?
Most businesses have come around to tossing their 2020 plans out the window as they adjust to the new Covid-19 situation. What will this mean for marketing?
The hidden cost of marketers’ lack of commitment
Advertisers may think a casual approach to their agency relationships means they avoid commitment, but they are overlooking these significant hidden costs.
Creative Agencies: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
If creative agencies really believed in the quality of their creative work and its positive effect on client brands, they'd fight for premium prices right?
The advertising industry is stuck in the 1960s – thinking ‘small’
It's time to take the advertising industry to its next stage of evolution. Who will say enough is enough and stand out like Bill Bernbach did back in 1959?