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 […]
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. […]
We don’t talk about… no no no
Three major roadblocks to highly effective marketing and collaborative client/agency partnerships… and why brand advertisers should talk about them. — Read our article posted on Producers & Procurers iQ — — Read our article posted on LBB Online — Unless you live under a rock, by now you probably heard the most popular of the […]
Partnership in 2021 – An Inconvenient Truth
Raising awareness of the increased tension in client/agency relationships amid COVID – The case for why 2021 will be the year of renewed partnerships: — Read the published article on 4A’s — The 2006 Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” featuring former United States Vice President Al Gore reenergized the environmental movement after making a dire […]
Five Inconvenient Truths About Client-Agency Partnerships in 2021 and How to Fix Them
Featured on WARC: This article examines the increased tension in client–agency relationships amid the COVID-induced recession, and how to make 2021 an opportunity to renew and refresh these partnerships. — Read the published article on WARC — Read the quick summary: The agency industry has been shaken by the pandemic, with the associated budget cuts […]
Turning Agencies Into Growth Agents
Featured on The ANA Marketing Maestros, 4A’s and Adforum: How brand advertisers enable agency partners to drive business and brand growth through process automation. — Read the article published by ANA Maestros — — Read the article published by 4A’s — — Read the article published by Adforum — GROWTH. If there is one word […]
The Domino Effect
Featured on AdExchanger: Anticipating the cascading impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the advertising industry and client/agency relationships. — Read the published AdExchanger article — We are all too familiar with the chain reaction produced when one event sets off a series of inevitable events. Today’s economic crisis and COVID-19 pandemic has also set […]
Anticipating the Cascading Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on the Advertising Industry and Client/Agency Relationships
The Domino Effect: Bracing for Impact In 2009, at the “The World in Domino – The Show with the Flow” event held in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 4,491,863 dominos toppled. This represented the highest ever documented number of consecutive falling domino stones, setting a new world record. The concept has encouraged many aficionados to break world records […]
A Guide to Agency Management in 2020
Featured on ANA Marketing Maestros — Read the ANA’s published article — Advertising has evolved into a complex, multi-faceted discipline requiring skills borrowed from business strategy, finance, information technology, human resources and almost every other corporate function. So, it’s no surprise that the list of activities on marketers’ desks increasingly runs long and deep. Too […]
Predicting a New Era of Energized Partnerships, Fierce Growth, Drastic Changes, and New Ways for Clients and Their Agencies to Collaborate
Advertisers and Agencies: Are You Ready For 2020? FORGET ABOUT 2019 PREDICTIONS. The year 2020 is glowing on the horizon, fueled by opportunities, innovation, transformative forces, and yes, the fear of the unknown. There have been many attempts to get a glimpse into the future and predict what 2020 would look like for the marketing […]
Amazon’s Advertising Phenomenon Fuels a Seattle Talent Boom
Featured on Puget Sound Business Journal & Yahoo! Finance: — Read the PSBJ published article — Seattle is on its way to becoming the next advertising industry nerve center, mostly fueled by Amazon’s rapid and powerful entry into the advertising business. With such a large share of e-commerce transactions going through Amazon, it’s hard for […]
Waste is the Next Battleground for Real and Sustained Marketing Efficiency
Wasted! The New Marketing Battlefront: Reducing Waste. By: Bruno Gralpois Author/Speaker, Thought-provocateur, Client/Agency Guru, Entrepreneur, Innovator Download a PDF Version Here Waste is not just a dirty word, no pun intended. It’s a source of great anxiety for those who encounter it, no matter what it is or where it originates from. A recent Forbes […]
