After spending a couple of days digesting this news I'm still not entirely sure what I think about it so excuse the brain dump. I do think it fits into the viral subject however as Ideas Bounty is surely a viral exercise in itself but can this really work as a sustainable model across a brand's...
Many of us in agencies, record labels, music publishers and music consultancies are looking to answer this question. There are many issues to consider, most of which concern how one interest group is changing its relationship with another: * Brand & agency relationships * Music talent & music...
I’ve recently come back from a couple of days in the north, where I had breakfast, lunch and dinner with most of our agency partners in that part of the world. As ever, leaving the London smog and arriving in Manchester, I get a real buzz from the sense of community you get when talking to media agencies...
This week I was at an industry event chatting with a couple of old mates – one from a traditional media background who now works on the client side, and one from a media agency – about the use of data in our industry. While my agency friend, perhaps unsurprisingly, was up to speed with most of the huge...
The obvious thought is a sector that has a passionate following such as sports, travel or consumer electronics, but our experience has proven that it can work for all sectors including the public, finance and insurance sectors. As long as brands add value in communities and behave in an ethical and useful...
I have just caught up with an interesting research report from the US into value-based pricing – the latest candidate to break the default setting of people/hours fees. In August the ANA (ISBA equivalent) and AAAA (America’s IPA) jointly published something called the Agency-Advertiser Value...
If a global client satisfaction survey had just been published (which to the best of my knowledge it hasn’t) I can confidently predict that its shock finding would be that standards of client service in creative agencies have significantly dropped. Client-on-agency evaluations routinely show numerous...
