agency
A strong client-agency relationship - it’s all about the ‘good’ brief
How a company briefs its agency - new or old - will greatly impact the work it receives. So, in the world of web design, what does a good agency brief look like?
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In-house in-unison. A client and a creative give you a sneak peek into their in-house lives.
To in-house or not to in-house, that is, apparently, the question everyone in the industry is asking. From our perspective, the answer is simple and straightforward.
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We all knew there was a talent shortage, but this has become a talent crisis
This is a data trail that proves that the great resignation is not a media-made-up story. The middle of the industry is missing.
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How research can help to make advertising more inclusive
We explore how to not alienate minority communities by ensuring we actually base our thinking on lived experiences, and not our gut, Google and guesswork.
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How can you hook the best talent for your in-house offering?
We’ve all read enough about in-housing now to know that as well as the copious positives, there are also a few pretty tough negative elements to contend with.
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How to make advertising more inclusive
Advertising will never be properly representative of the communities it is trying to reach until every single element of the process is re-analysed and reassessed.
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Watching TV with the 85%
Most of the UK lives outside London, but most of adland is in London. This can skew understanding of normal life, says Cravens’ Mark Hadfield.
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Rethinking Programmatic
Looking back over the dramatic transformation that programmatic advertising has brought to the wider advertising community, here's what we could have done differently.
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Ditch the Script
Sadly, even today, when you brief a lot of agencies, what you get back is a 30-second script. Not an idea. A script which is, in time, forcefully re-shaped, re-sized, blown up or cut down to fit whatever hole the media plan requires.
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Do you really think charging for ideas by the hour works?
For the past 100 years we’ve been building a system like no other industry anywhere in the world. The temptation to load bodies (and hours) onto a job is too much to resist. The ‘cost-control community’ did not evolve because it wasn't needed now did it?
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