Knowledge Centre – The Blog

Knowledge Centre – The Blog

Collection of the important insights, trends and issues we have encountered in our work with our clients.

Unlike a blog, this is not a collection of musings or things that caught our attention today.

Instead, it is a collection of the important insights, trends and issues we have encountered in our work with our clients and the solutions we have developed.

This why we call it our Knowledge Centre. It is where we share the collective knowledge of TrinityP3. We add to this regularly. We update it when and where needed. We recommend bookmarking this page and be sure to visit regularly when looking for inspiration, insight and knowledge on the world of marketing management.

Advertising Carbon Offset Calculation - Case study

Advertising Carbon Offset Calculation – Case study

Company Category: Major International FMCG Issue: This company was claiming to have measured then offset all the carbon emissions in the production and distribution of a new ‘Green’ product. Challenging Problem: Under the watchful eye of the Government Authority there ...
Agency Remuneration and Scope of Work Benchmarking

Agency Remuneration and Scope of Work Benchmarking

Client Category: Tourism Challenging Problem: Client needed to confirm its remuneration arrangements were delivering value and which would allow the Agency to be reappointed without a costly and disruptive pitch process. Creative Solution: Agency Remuneration Benchmarking and subsequent SOW benchmarking ...
Television Production Supplier Negotiation

Television Production Supplier Negotiation

Company Category: Tourism Challenging Problem: The Tourism Board had brokered a deal to ‘piggy- back’ an major new film about the country by having the film’s director shoot a TVC in the same style. As competitive costs were logistically unavailable ...
Marketing Carbon Reduction Assessment

Marketing Carbon Reduction Assessment

Company Category: Government Issue: Environmental Legislation was demanding all departments to fully understand there carbon emissions. This included marketing spend. Challenging Problem: With all other business divisions being able to measure their carbon footprint marketing were required to gain an ...
Television Production Review

Television Production Review

Company Category: Restaurant Chain Challenging Problem: With over 50 TVC’s being produced each year the client engaged TP3 to review the current TVC buying costs and processes to ensure they were receiving fair value from their agencies. Creative Solution: TP3 ...
Creative Agency Search & Selection

Creative Agency Search & Selection

Company Category: Global Telecommunications Brand or Issues: Entire organization e.g. brand communications, retail network, sponsorships, digital and direct response, direct and CRM, consumer and business proposition communications. Challenging Problem: Client engaged TP3 to facilitate a full service creative agency search ...
Remuneration Benchmarking & Modelling

Remuneration Benchmarking & Modelling

Company Category: Global FMCG Challenging Problem: TP3 were asked to review the remuneration arrangements with its two creative Agencies. These relationships had been in place for many years however there was a sense that the rates may have been above ...
Retainers: good to better, better to best

Retainers: good to better, better to best

Many marketers have moved from media commissions and service fees to retainer-based remuneration models. Yet although retainers often provide a minimum of management during the course of the agreement, they can become problematic at renewal or review time, especially if ...
Steps to Maximize Marketing Value

Steps to Maximize Marketing Value

Nowadays, everyone's trying to squeeze more out of their marketing budget than ever. From reviewing agencies to evaluating internal relationships, there's plenty of scope for improvement in all areas of the marketing communication mix. So we look at the ten ...
The four essential stages of the pitch process

The four essential stages of the pitch process

In any pitch process for marketing services providers, whether it be for a full-service agency scope of work or a specific media, creative, digital, data-driven, technology, social or PR agency scope of work, there are four essential stages. Often, marketers ...
The difference between paying consultants on percentage of savings and success fees

The difference between paying consultants on percentage of savings and success fees

It is a common practice in procurement to reward procurement consultants by paying a percent of the savings they have identified. But in the marketing space this is a practice that is fraught with danger for the client, while highly ...
The power of competitive pressure on advertising agency fees

The power of competitive pressure on advertising agency fees

We are all aware of the direction the world wide economy is heading. But in the past two months it appears that agency fees are going the same way during the pitch process. But the same cannot be said for ...

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Managing Marketing: The State Of The Pitch In Australian Advertising

Managing Marketing: The State Of The Pitch In Australian Advertising

Since the pandemic, agencies worldwide have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces claiming it is broken and even dead. As Australia’s and APAC’s leading pitch consultancy, we noticed that while there were plenty of opinions, there was very little data ...