The Marketing Procurement Renaissance: Redefining Value and Innovation in a New Era of Relationship Capital

Industry leaders prepare for a transformative year of client and agency partnerships Leaders in marketing procurement gather every year at events to anticipate, explore, dissect, and debate the trends that are shaping the industry today and for years to come. The advertising industry has entered a transformative phase, its most profound in decades, as […]
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 […]
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 […]
Creating Agency KPIs

Engaging and motivating agency partners is more than a numbers game. We all have implemented Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure progress against our work. Agency KPIs are essential for any organization to measure its progress against predetermined agency objectives and priorities. KPIs let advertisers focus on what matters most, align relevant resources towards achieving […]
Achieving superior supplier value – Collaboration and focus

Featured on Producers & Procurers iQ: Putting greater emphasis on driving incremental value from the partnership, while maintaining traditional cost management and resource utilization. — Read the published Producers & Procurers iQ article — We are all familiar with the concept of asset management. This is something we intuitively practice when we manage a retirement […]
10 Best Advertising Quotes of April 2021

Discover 10 most inspiring quotes about the state of advertising from industry thought-leaders such as Marla Kaplowitz (CEO 4As), Ivan Pollard (Global CMO General Mills), and Marc Pritchard (Chief Brand Officer Procter & Gamble), brought to you by Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions. Includes short comments.
What Metrics Should Advertisers Use to Make Effective Use of Their Agency Partnerships?

The Right KPIs to Manage Agency Partners: When the concept of dashboards was introduced, it mostly served to protect vehicle occupants from debris thrown or “dashed up,” by the horses’ hooves in front of the carriage, and when cars came on the scene, protection from the heat and oil of the engine. In other words, […]
Brand Advertisers Must Constantly Assess and Reflect on the Important Role They Play in Managing Their Agency Partnerships Effectively and Responsibly

CMOs: What Should You Ask Yourself and Your Organization? Self-reflection is an important part of personal development. We can’t grow and mature until we ask ourselves tough questions, reflect on what we’ve done, learn from it, and apply ourselves to improve. This is equally as true in professional settings and in our industry. If you […]