Breaking Silos: The Key to Effective Cross-Agency Teamwork
How Brand Advertisers Can Foster Collaboration, Enhance Communication, and Drive Collective Success! The largest brands in the world rely on a web of agencies across several advertising and marketing disciplines. Some brands have dozens, even hundreds, of agency partners working on their behalf. The ability of their agencies to seamlessly collaborate and work together […]
Roster Tool Adoption
Request a white paper on successfully designing and deploying a roster of approved suppliers within a large organization: A well-organized and accessible database of approved suppliers is crucial for large organizations as marketing teams often struggle to search, find, and align the most qualified vendors to their projects. Having an approved roster of agencies […]
Discovering Pearls: How To Find The Perfect Agency Partner
A natural pearl in an oyster is one of nature’s most remarkable and rare achievements. In the turbulent waters of the brand world, an ideal agency partnership can be similarly hard to find—but very rewarding. The chances of finding a natural pearl in an oyster are very low. It is estimated that one in […]
Unlocking Efficiency: 4 Steps to Powerful Agency Management and How to Handle Roadblocks
Advertiser relationships are under greater scrutiny to do more with less. Brands must implement a step-by-step approach to a more automated, streamlined, and smarter way to engage with agencies and deliver organizational value. “Do more with less” has become a corporate mantra for most brand advertisers and the agency ecosystem that brands rely on […]
Rethinking ‘AI’ in a Partnership World: Advice for Advertisers and Agencies
What if “AI” meant something more than artificial intelligence? Discover 6 surprising and effective ways this popular abbreviation can improve agency partnerships. Members of the Association of National Advertisers selected AI as the Marketing Word of the Year for 2023. No surprise there. The AI phenomenon is indisputable: The abbreviation appears to be in every agency presentation, […]
A CMO’s Wake-up Call: not Who but How
Why CMOs must shift their mindset and focus from “Which agencies should I hire?” to “How can I operate to embolden agencies to succeed?” —no matter whom a brand partners with. A recent article by Ad Age predicts an increase in account reviews as a result of agency layoffs, corporate restructuring, leadership changes, and […]
Getting Stuff Done – Better, Faster, Smarter
Improving the output of client–agency collaboration to drive cost efficiencies and bulletproof your business in turbulent times. In the cacophony of business life and a new year full of promises, when the demands of work, team commitments, and the ever-present allure of conflicting priorities create a symphony of chaos, the quest to get things […]
2023 Year in Review of Client/Agency Industry Updates
Industry Updates: Looking ahead to 2024 How the trends & news of 2023 will impact us this year. At AMS, we approach the agency management discipline as four distinct but complementary practice areas – Talent, Work and Performance, Financials, and Agency Reviews & Roster Changes – which is how we categorized our booklet. This thoughtfully […]
RosterDeliver™
This Roster Management Software enables users improved internal compliance and governance, rich agency profiles and a single destination for agency/vendor contact list.
2022 Year in Review of Client/Agency Industry Updates
Looking back at 2022: Trends, news, and future thinking— and how they will impact 2023. Newsworthy Reports and Recent Developments At AMS, we approach the agency management discipline as four distinct but complementary practice areas – Talent, Work and Performance, Financials, and Agency Reviews and Roster Changes – which is how we categorize the following developments. […]
RosterDeliver™ capabilities explained
RosterDeliver™ is a flexible one-stop agency roster solution, a sort of user-friendly, online supplier database specifically designed to provide sourcing and marketing professionals detailed and easy access to up-to-date information about advertising/marketing agencies and suppliers in the company’s roster. Learn more: https://agencymania.com/solutions/rosterdeliver/
Volume 66
Executive Summary – Monthly recap We are experiencing tremendous change across talent, agency capabilities and the way work is being produced. It’s clear that the path is forward, with little appetite to reverse to prior industry practices in the way we pitch for work, conduct reviews, onboard manage our relationships. For example, our industry needs […]
