Managing Marketing: The changing role and challenges facing media agencies

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Darren Woolley
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David Angell is the General Manager and Head of Media at TrinityP3 and here he chats with Darren on the increasingly complex role played by media agencies and the challenges they face in meeting the needs and demands of their advertiser clients. As intermediaries between advertisers and the media providers they are increasingly challenged with not just managing this complex relationship but also contributing to overall marketing performance too. Continue reading →

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Marketers and Procurement Who Want to Talk Turkey With Their Agencies Can Learn A Lot From Chickens

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Stephan Argent
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OK, what the heck have chickens got to do with marketing and procurement teams negotiating with their agencies? The answer is: Everything. It goes like this: If you’d been craving some Kentucky Fried Chicken in the United Kingdom a few weeks ago you’d have been out of luck and perhaps crossing the street to Burger King instead. Why? Because at the end of last year, KFC chose to change to DHL, a lower cost distributor, which, as it turned out, provided a poorer quality of service with little or no contingency planning. Continue reading →

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How “Broken” Is Marketing at Major Advertisers?

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Michael Farmer
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Marketing is not fully represented by the career-stressed Chief Marketing Officer. Marketing is not the digital/social specialist or the advertising manager. Marketing is not the head of promotions or the brand manager. Marketing is the network of corporate executives, loosely connected by money, expertise and objectives to achieve improvements in shareholder value, presumably from higher product growth rates. Marketing is the CMO, the heads of Business Profit Centers, the head of Indirect Procurement, the CFO, the CEO and their media, creative and other ad agencies. Continue reading →

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Marc Prichard, the low creative ratio at your agencies is not their fault, it’s yours

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Darren Woolley
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Okay, perhaps not yours Marc, but when you recently stated that you would like three quarters of your agencies to be creative, it made me reflect on the literally hundreds of agency remuneration deals we have benchmarked, negotiated and managed over the past 18 years and the fact that in every case the agency resources required were directly related to the requirements and expectations of the marketers. Continue reading →

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Agile Marketing delivery – Become an instant expert

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Anton Buchner
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It’s a term that came from the software development industry back in the 1950s, whereby solutions were developed and evolved with cross-functional team collaboration. Agile software development was designed to have all aspects of planning, analysis, design, coding, and testing included together to have working prototypes and products developed and presented to stakeholders for fast approval and implementation throughout defined release cycles. Continue reading →

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Have It Your Way: A Marketing Award for a Commercial Mess

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Michael Farmer
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Once upon a time, we learned that marketing had something to do with creating, keeping and satisfying customers.  Marketing success created growth and profitability. Chief Marketing Officers had this responsibility and they spent gads of money with their media and creative agencies to make it happen. When economies were growing, especially in the decades after the Second World War, marketing was a straightforward activity and CMOs were successful.  Recent times have been more troublesome, with e-commerce, digital/social and those pesky Millennials killing brand growth. Continue reading →

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Enabling Data in Creative, to pull the final lever for digital success

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Richard Knott
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There are 3 main levers to drive results in digital advertising – media, data and creative. The media lever, typically controlled by a DSP, enables you to optimise media schedules and placements based upon audience, environment, response and price. The data lever is currently managed by DMPs, linking data and knowledge to audiences and outcomes. Continue reading →

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Who’s In Charge? Marketing or Procurement?

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Stephan Argent
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Whether you’re a client looking for marketing services, or an agency pitching your wares, the question of who’s really calling the shots can be a pivotal one. On the one hand, the organisational perspective might be that marketing teams are evaluated on and are seeking things like improved performance, chemistry harmony between teams and agencies, creative brilliance and / or strategic smarts. Continue reading →

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Digital and Technology alignment – Become an instant expert

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Anton Buchner
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Firstly, we should preface by saying that the digital and technology world has been normal for you, as you were born into it. So for many of you, you may be leading your marketing team on initiatives and ideas. But as you know what is normal now, won’t be normal in the future. The rate of change is getting faster and faster, as we enter the 4th industrial revolution with the advent of robotics, autonomous transport, artificial intelligence, infinite computing, and nanotechnology. Continue reading →

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The Creative may be Digital, but the process is analog

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Peter Bray
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Let’s be clear, no matter how good an ad format or placement is, no matter how accurate the media targeting is – an irrelevant ad, is still an irrelevant ad. As Marketers are now living in an omnichannel world with increasing internal and external ‘CXpectations’,  they are expected to do more with less. Digital continues to deliver shattered fragments of consumer touchpoints which has resulted in working and non-working dollars becoming blurred as technology intertwines context (media) and content (creative). Continue reading →

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Has “Digital/Social” Become the Dollar Menu of the Advertising World?

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Michael Farmer
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The new McDonald’s Dollar Menu, which includes a sausage burrito for $1, a Bacon McDouble at $2 and the Classic Chicken Sandwich for $3 is designed to boost same-store sales. While this represents the company’s best shot at traffic increases for 2018, the chain will need more than $1-$2-$3 discounted items to maintain margins and stock market price.  Wendy’s and Taco Bell have responded with their own discounts, and the prospect of an industry price war looms. Continue reading →

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Managing Marketing: Navigating digital transformation

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Darren Woolley
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Adam Good is the Chief Digital Officer at Dentsu Aegis Network in APAC and in this podcast he is talking with Darren and reflecting on his career on both the marketing and agency side as the industry navigates the digital transformation and the impact of organisational alignment, innovation, collaboration, trust and a shift to Agile Marketing. Continue reading →

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Plan B: Turning the Madison Avenue Manslaughter into a much needed makeover – Part 3

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Michael Farmer
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On Tuesday December 4, 2017 Michael Farmer, author of the award winning marketing business book Madison Avenue Manslaughter presented his Plan B for the industry to turn the manslaughter into a make over that would get brands and agencies moving again. This is the transcript and video of the final of three parts of that presentation where he delivers Plan B to the industry. Continue reading →

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Plan B: Turning the Madison Avenue Manslaughter into a much needed makeover – Part 2

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Michael Farmer
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On Tuesday December 4, 2017 Michael Farmer, author of the award winning marketing business book Madison Avenue Manslaughter presented his Plan B for the industry to turn the manslaughter into a make over that would get brands and agencies moving again. This is the transcript and video of the second of three parts of that presentation where he defines the issues that Plan B must address to be successful. What is Plan B? Before you decide what Plan B is, decide what kind of Plan A problems have to be solved. I think a lot of people are getting this wrong because you hear people say, ‘our real problem is there is no talent’ or ‘we are not digital enough’ or ‘there are too many pitches’ or ‘the bench markers’. Continue reading →

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Yes, advertising agencies exaggerate their award entries – Poll result

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Darren Woolley
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Recent reports in the trade media have raised questions over the accuracy of the award entries of a particular multi-award winning agency. In fact it appears that this agency has continued to win awards overseas with questionable and inaccurate claims. Now the agency CEO has stepped aside it is time to discuss the implications this has for agencies, the industry and their clients. Accusations of behaviour like this undermines trust, not only in the agency involved, but the award process and the industry at large.Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts. Continue reading →

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