TrinityP3’s agency fee modelling is dedicated to helping businesses understand the different ways in which marketing agencies charge for their services. With a range of fee models available, from hourly rates and fixed fees to commission-based models and performance-based pricing, it can be difficult for businesses to know which model is right for them.
The page provides a range of resources to help businesses navigate this complex landscape, whether you are looking to better understand the pros and cons of different fee models, or you are considering changing your agency fee structure. Our resources cover a range of topics including how different models work, which models are most commonly used, and how to choose the right model for your business.
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When it comes to paying your agencies, you need to follow the money.
Marketing teams can be broadly divided into two groups. There are some who think their agency is paid too much ...
The limitations of input cost over output and outcome value for advertising agencies
Talking with a media agency today, they were sharing the struggle they had with a client getting a fair fee ...
Advertising Agency Fees – The Move from Static Inputs to Valuable Outputs
This is an edited version of the guide "Advertising Agency Fees – A Comprehensive Guide for Marketing". To access the ...
The traps and pitfalls of developing an output-based agency fee model
Since 2004 we have been working with a workload agency fee model, used to calculate agency resources based on work ...
Value-based, cost-based, pricing-based, and performance-based agency fees – bring it on
At the Mumbrella360 Reconnect last year, I was moderating the thought-provoking session by Kathryn Williams, Managing Director at KMint, titled ...
Are advertising agencies the next big subscription-based model?
Let’s be honest, no one is happy with the current advertising agency fee models. Advertisers struggle with identifying the value ...
Deciding on the right agency fee model is now easier
How are you paying your agencies? Is it a retainer? Or project fees? And why did you use that particular ...
Retained AOR or project fees? Which one is best?
I received an email today from my friend and industry colleague, Francisco Escobar, who said “Just looked through your newsletter ...
The challenges in measuring the value your agencies contribute to your marketing
How do you calculate or assess the value of your marketing spend? In the past three years we have had ...
Why performance based payments need to be an incentive not a disincentive
This is the eighth in a series of one minute videos that address one of the many complex challenges facing marketing, media ...
What is the best agency remuneration model for every advertiser?
It is interesting that according to the ANA the most common agency compensation model is still the resource retainer approach ...
7 essential considerations when moving from agency retainer to project fees
There is a distinct market trend occurring in the way marketers and advertisers are compensating their agencies and suppliers. Along ...
The latest trends in agency remuneration
This is the first in the series of TrinityP3 Webinars. Today we're talking about the latest trends in agency remuneration and ...
5 issues you need to overcome to make agency incentive payments work
For the past ten years we have been working with advertisers to move their agency compensation from the popular cost-based ...
What should my advertising agency cost be?
We have been benchmarking advertising agency costs for more than a decade. This is usually undertaken with an historical focus, looking ...
How to develop a price based remuneration model for your agencies
We have been working with value based remuneration (VBR) or compensation (VBC) models since 2007 and have implemented these in ...
Why paying your agency for being nice to you is flawed
It is fairly common for Agency Relationship consultants to recommend that agency fees, and especially performance fees should be linked to the ...
Risk vs reward in value and performance based agency compensation
The current resource based model is low risk for both agencies and advertisers, which is possibly why it is so ...
How many KPIs are optimal to drive agency performance?
The concept of performance based remuneration or payment by results appears to me to be universally embraced. After all, according ...
Why marketers should stop paying agencies for ideas
As more people are jumping on the bandwagon and declaring the current agency remuneration model broken, there are those who ...
A step by step approach to calculating ad agency resource rates and head hour costs
With the increased application of AI in generativing content and automating workflows, and the corresponding call for the application of ...
Balancing risk and reward in value based advertising agency compensation
Last week in NYC I was speaking at the WFA COMPAG group about Value Based Compensation (VBC). During the discussion ...
Defining Value Based Agency Compensation
A few weeks ago in NYC I presented the results on a survey undertaken by the WFA on Value Based ...
How your agency compensation method can add value
I was recently participating in a discussion in the ANA Advertising Financial Conference LinkedIn Group when Bob Cauley from Beekman ...
Reasons why performance based remuneration or payment by results often fail
Performance based remuneration or payment by results (PBR) is a component of many agency remuneration deals, but the fact is ...
What is value based remuneration for advertising and media agencies?
Retainers are still the most common form of remuneration for advertising agencies in the major markets. These retainers are based ...
Rate cards versus retainers: evaluating the best model for advertising
With media commissions becoming virtually non-existent, the two main remuneration models for advertising service providers is either retainers or project ...
How many billable hours are there in a year?
Since this post was last updated at the end of 2018, the world has gone through a significant upheaval in ...