The Advertising Age article, The Ad Agency of the Future Is Coming. Are You Ready?, is one that you may have seen. If you haven’t, set aside some time to read it. As industry leaders from Procter & Gamble, Wunderman, PepsiCo, Omincom and others describe their views of the “Ad Agency of the Future”… how […]
…it would be worth peeling back a layer. A data point that stood out in the RSW/US 2016 New Year Outlook Survey was 34% of Marketers indicating plans to increase spending somewhat or significantly in traditional media. It was noteworthy for two reasons: This is the first time in recent years that Marketers indicated […]
Brad Jakeman, the President of Pepsi’s Global Beverage Group, had a pretty tough message to send to the 2,700 attendees at this year’s ANA Masters of Marketing Conference: Stop Calling It Advertising! Jakeman, in an impassioned speech given on Thursday at the event, suggested that agencies have not kept pace with the changes that have […]
A survey that we run continuously with Marketers individually establishes benchmarks on how their current agency is performing. One of the questions asks Marketers to rate how reliable their agency is in consistently doing an excellent job on a 10-point scale. This goes beyond creative, media planning and buying; it includes the agency’s ability to […]
“When we are planning for a conversation or meeting, typically we think about the task and objectives. But how much time do we plan the relationship?…how can we connect at a deeper level…?” These lines jumped out at me as I recently read excerpts of an interview conducted by the Center for Creative […]
A new business director at an agency asked me this week if we had any posts on qualifying prospects. And while we touch on the subject often, short answer was, interestingly, no. It is a particularly important agency new business question, and one you should define within your own firm. You might be surprised to […]
One feature I particularly like about our surveys are the open-ended comments we include from marketers, and in our most recent report, we included 4 pages of comments from Marketers, all of which highlighted the ever fickle Marketer-Agency relationship. in the survey, Adweek provided us with the following question: What amount of an agency’s business must be focused […]
