Insights
How To Mitigate The Revolving Door Of CMOs
Marketing Mag – Often overlooked during a CMO transition period is the agency on record. The brands’ agency partner can be a valuable repository of information, ...
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How the Middle East Became the Latest ‘Gold Rush’ in Marketing
Wall Street Journal – Four years ago, Saudi Arabia made up a small proportion of business at Lightblue, a creative experience and tech agency based in ...
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Why Marketers are Taking Over Reviews from Consultants – And How Agencies Can Adapt
AdAge – Under economic pressure, more and more marketers are skipping search consultants and taking agency reviews into their own hands. Search consultants operate on a ...
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Will the Fractional CMO Wave Hit the HK Marketing Industry? CMOs Weigh In
Marketing Interactive – The term “fractional CMO” – FCMO – has been gaining traction in the marketing industry. Simply put, a fractional CMO, or FCMO, is ...
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Unraveling the AI Dilemma in Media Agencies: Cost Savings or Revenue Shake-up?
Digiday – As media agencies tout the potential of AI efficiencies, marketers are probing: Will this translate to cost savings, and if so, will those savings ...
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Inside Cannes Lions 2024 Costs for Brands and Agencies — Measuring the ROI of Activations
AdAge – Branded presence at the festival can cost anywhere from $108,000 for a brunch to $4 million for a blowout concert, per a sales deck ...
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An 8.4% Increase in Creative Investment Throws Light on A Relatively Muted 2023 Global New Business Landscape
The Global Creative and Media new business landscape for 2023 proved to be relatively muted despite marque accounts like Pfizer, Uber, and Kimberly-Clark put under ...
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Marketing Briefing: Agencies See More RFPs for Brand Building Amid ‘Recalibration’ of Marketers’ Priorities
Digiday – In recent years, marketers have been putting more emphasis on performance marketing, proving efficiencies of ad budgets and retooling creative to tout value amid ...
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Improving on Paying for Performance
Regardless of economic climate, cutting cost is always easier than getting more value from your spend. As businesses bow to inflationary pressures, a looming recession, ...
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Marketer Mindsets on In-housing vs. Agencies Needs to Change
Digiday – It’s no longer us against them. Last week, the ANA released its latest report on in-housing, authored by ANA Group EVP Bill Duggan, which ...
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Agency In-housing Debate Resurfaces, With Fresh Shades of Nuance
Marketing Dive – In-housing has found itself back in the spotlight in the early months of 2023. With influential companies recently claiming they’ve saved tens of ...
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Vive Le Pitch: French Holding Groups Dominate 2022 New Business
2022 was the year of growth for French holding companies, with Publicis Groupe and Havas leading R3’s New Business League. Publicis Groupe was holding company ...
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