What are the most common causes of waste in the client/agency relationship?  Find out in the latest from Agency Mania Solutions.  

Marketing leaders must build the right Agency Management competencies to enable their organization to do more.  Find out how in this piece from Agency Mania Solutions    

Marsha Appel, SVP, 4A’s Research Services, explores identity marketing and the implications for ad agencies.

Find out how industry leaders are securing top digital talent through acquisitions in this report from Agency Mania Solutions.

CreativeBrief explores the state of agency working culture today.

Tim Williams of Ignition Consulting provides suggestions to help agencies better understand and define scope.

A global survey of CMOs and senior-level marketers by Dentsu Aegis provides insight into their perspectives on marketing budgets, digital media, management consultancies, data usage, data breaches, GDPR, working with agencies, how to capitalize on consumer attention, and strategies to stay relevant.

Creativebrief surveyed agency CEOs and CMOs to gauge their thoughts on the traditional pitch. The results are surprising!

Learn how to detect the early signs of trouble in agency/client relationships.

Take a look at how voice required new skills and agency competencies,and what brand advertisers are doing to take advantage in this recent piece from Agency Mania Solutions.

Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions explores the reasons behind the Campbell’s switch to Publicis from BBDO and how to prevent the excessive wave of agency reviews.

While it is easy for marketers to get distracted by the power of data and technology, a new report reminds us what really drives business decisions: feelings. “The Business Feeling Index: The Feelings that Move Business Forward” report, conducted by the Financial Times Commercial Insight Group in collaboration with leading global business-to-business advertising agency gyro, asked FT readers across the globe to express what feelings are crucial for creating successful business relationships.

This comprehensive report from Extreme Reach, based on research commissioned with Advertiser Perceptions™, illuminates just how cumbersome and inefficient it is for ad ops teams to find and prepare creative assets for video campaigns.

Hubspot provides a guide to writing the great creative brief for ad agencies.

In the latest piece from Agency Mania Solutions, Bruno Gralpois discusses  how advertisers can realize substantial gains by implementing rigorous scope of work and briefing practices.

Agency Mania Solutions explores five ways for advertisers and agencies to overcome common relationship struggles that get in the way of effective collaboration.

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

There are no current reliable quantitative studies on this subject. Here’s a compilation from 4A’s Research Services of opinions from consultants on this topic.

Facebook IQ shares a hypothesis-driven insights approach that will help marketers better process and use data to inform their marketing decisions and write a stellar creative brief.

  Just in time for Valentines’ Day, advertising love doctor Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions looks at what went wrong and what could have been done to save the relationship between an advertiser and an agency.

Use the science of love! Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania solutions shows how clients and agencies can deepen their love for each other and have better, more aligned relationships.

Conductor surveys marketing executives to learn the top marketing trends and challenges for 2019.

What should advertisers and their agencies expect from each other in 2018? Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions explores major trends.      

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.