View Fuel Lines, a blog by Michael Gass, for ideas on the use of social media, content, and inbound marketing strategies to fuel agency new business.

Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs release their first report examining how ad agencies use content marketing to promote their services. 

Agency Spotter’s annual report highlights agency search trends.

Strategy tracks and tallies the awards won by agencies, advertisers and creatives in Canada, and identifies the winners in this report. Rankings are provided for agencies, brands, creative directors, art directors, copywriters, planners, and designers.

Learn how DTC brands are changing the ad agency model in this insights piece from Marsha Appel, SVP, 4A’s Research.

Read agency executives’ thoughts on new business practices from pitches to new business staffing structures in this RSW/US report.

The 4A’s will host the biennial Agency Communications Summit on October 30 at Convene at 32 Old Slip in New York City. This year’s conference will offer communications and public relations professionals the opportunity to meet leading journalists covering the advertising, marketing and media industries, as well as connect with industry leaders to discuss the critical topics influencing how agencies tell their stories.

The following presentations took place at the Ad Age 2018 Small Agency Conference, July 17th and 18th, in Marina Del Rey, Calif.  

Agencies around the world share their growth challenges in this report from Hubspot.

This presentation was delivered to the 4A’s Large Agency & Media Finance Committees on October 26, 2017 by Rick Brook, SVP, Global Client Operations at WPP. 

Michael Gass, a business development consultant, explores why positioning is the foundation of any agency’s new business program.

Don Beehler of ABC&D Communications discusses ways ad agencies can develop a PR plan that generates awareness, compliments new business initiatives, and enhances new business opportunities.

Become the most interesting person at your next agency happy hour by reading this short history of agency names from Marsha Appel, SVP Research Services.

Fern Miller of DigitasLBi provides pointers on how to differentiate an agency brand. The key takeaways are: “Be useful. Be different. Be consistent.”

Connelly Partners announces Joel Idelson has been named Chief Marketing Officer.

4A’s Management Practitioners Forum (Monday, March 21, 2016) – Agency Case Story – Meet 22Squared by Richard Ward, President/CEO, 22squared.

4A’s Management Practitioners Forum (Monday, March 21, 2016) – Nurturing Bohan’s Award-Winning Culture by David Bohan, Chairman, Bohan Advertising.

The Martz Parsons Agency has officially been renamed BIG YAM, The Parsons Agency.

SHS named one of the area’s 2015 Top Small Businesses by The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Havas has implemented a unique business model placing digital at the core of all its activities and agencies, unifying creative and media assets and strengthening the visibility of its global brand by renaming its largest network.

The 4A’s is challenging the industry it represents to come up with a big creative idea that promotes the advertising industry to a broader audience.

Crowley Webb will work for 25 hours straight to create a campaign that will strengthen You and Who’s brand presence in their current markets, as well as help the company expand into new cities.

Since 1959, the Silver Medal has been awarded to a distinguished member of the Chicago advertising community for his/her contributions to the local ad scene as well as for his/her personal accomplishments.

Heide Harrell of Little Rock has joined Arkansas advertising agency Mangan Holcomb Partners as a public relations account executive.