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Reconsidering The Advertising Industry: Future
Reconsidering The Advertising Industry: Future
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Management Centre Europe.
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Wachovia: - 0.8%
BMO Capital Markets: - 1.9%
Collins Stewart LLC: - 2.0%
GroupM: - 3.2%
Citi Investment Research: - 3.6%
MAGNA: - 4.5%
Morgan Stanley: - 5.0%
ThinkPanmure LLC: - 5.0%
UBS: - 6.0%
ZenithOptimedia: - 6.2%
Myers Publishing LLC: - 6.7%
Barclays Capital: -10.0%
Source:
Seven Predictions for 2009, eMarketer, January 2009
Prelude: How will Agency’s Fare in a Market Where Clients are Dissatisfied?
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The Net Promoter Score ™ is a registered trademark of Bain, Satmetrix and Fred Reichheld
Prelude: Are Marketers Held Hostage by the Advertising Industry?
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Hostages Loyalists
Likelihood to repurchase
Defectors Mercenaries
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Low Likelihood to recommend High
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Prelude: Do Agencies Overestimate Their Impact on the Client’s Success?
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Table of Contents
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Chapter One
Situational Analysis: Agency Challenges 2009
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Chapter One
Situational Analysis
4 gaps in agency
authenticity
Client Need #1: 75% of clients want a truly tailored approach to their business
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Agency Response #1: Services that Happen to Fit the Agency Model
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Client Need #2: Show Me the Return on My Marketing Investments
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Agency Response #2: We Are Very Creative ... And Big ... And have Big Clients
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Of the 50 largest advertisers in the world ...
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Continued Underperformance The Occasional
Intransparency and “creative math”” Scandal
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What marketing leaders want from their agencies when it comes to digital
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Agency Response #7: Look How Cool and Fun We Are ... And Creative Too!
4 gaps in agency
authenticity
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Agencies have optimised their business for themselves. Not for their customers.
Kris Hoet, EMEA Digital Media Communications Manager, Microsoft
Production Management
Account
Mgmt
Planning
Disconnect 2: Most Agencies are Multi-Local with High Levels of Duplication ...
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... While Today’s World is Global and Highly Interconnected
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Disconnect 3: Agencies Compete within “Their Crowd” ...
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Chapter One
Situational Analysis
4 gaps in agency
authenticity
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If a client thinks a brand is great, but you find out his consumers
disagree, you’d only tell him if you’d get more business out it.
Otherwise, best to leave these things untouched.
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1. Become a solution house ...
2. ... Or Not
3. Talk Money
4. Media Neutrality & Transparency
5. Replace Noise by Engagement
6. Be Digital
7. Think of the Shopper
8. Get a Makeover
9. Synch to Global Reality
10. Establish A Clear & Differentiated Position
11. Align Good Apples, Get Rid of Bad Ones
12. Take a Moment of Self-Reflection
Chapter Two
12 Remedies to Set Things Right FUTURELAB
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#2 ... or not
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#4 Media Neutrality and Transparency
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#7 Think of the Shopper
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#8 Get a Makeover
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#10 Establish A Clear and Differentiated Position
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Customer
Proposition
Strategy Behaviour of
Culture
Commitment Leaders
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Chapter Three
10 Formats: Agency Models of the Future
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#1 The Factory
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If you want more information on this report or would like to discuss the
pursuit of any of the strategies discussed in your agency, get in touch For a conversation on aligning the people in
with us on info@futurelab.net: your agency to your strategy, get in touch
with Management Centre Europe who have
International: + 32 2 733 8332 Alain Thys/Stefan Kolle acted as co-sponsor to this report:
Athens: +30 210 6101240 Milton Papadakis
Bucharest: +40 751 229 217 Ramona Patrascanu Mr. Patrick Faniel
Hamburg: +49 40 2780 6223 Anne Marx Customer Specific Solutions Director
Kiev: +38 067 502 99 41 Olga Vaganova Tel.: +32/2/543.21.20
Moscow: +7 905 500 5856 Marina Natanova Email: pfaniel@mce-ama.com
Shanghai: +86 136 2179 9450 Jan Van den Bergh
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