17 Feb 2011
| by Matt Williams
Westfield, the UK shopping-centre owner, is looking for an agency to handle its customer...The company has a shortlist of agencies in contention for the accout and is thought to be close to making an appointment.
Westfield does not currently retain a CRM agency but is thought to be keen ...
to handle its advertising. However, the agency, which created work using the "Shopping in a new light" line ...
12 Aug 2010
| by Kunal Dutta
tender that asks agencies for a number of case-studies as well as their above-the-line and direct marketing credentials.
JD Williams is approaching ad agencies just four months after it retained the Principles Agency to its integrated business with a focus on customer recruitment and retention ...
14 Jul 2010
| by Joe Thomas
My-wardrobe.com, the online fashion retailer, is on the hunt for international digital agencies...The retailer's UK marketing will continue to be handled in-house, but the brand has confirmed it is looking to appoint international agencies in the next 12 months, to ensure that campaigns in overseas markets are 'culturally specific'.
It is unclear at present what the retailer's marketing budget ...
28 Jun 2010
| by Suzanne Bidlake
With agencies still having to prove the effectiveness of digital to clients, there is a growing focus on data ...
of ROI: "It has to be about engagement and emotion. Agencies and publishers have to prove to clients ...
for the "digital" sector is that the descriptor is almost a devalued currency as most agencies now claim some ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Giles Hedger and Marc Giusti, Leo Burnett
Clients need agencies that can see the broadest answers to problems...by clients through budgets and agency relationships denoting not a technical difference, but a tribal one. And, whereas 15 years ago, agency brands were clearly imprinted in the work they produced and were the basis by which agency selection was made, now clients are forced to take agencies apart in search ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Ivan Skoric, TSL Digital
agency specialisations. Print, pre-press, TV and online specialist agencies no longer apply in the digital world, replaced instead by a raft of multi-purpose agencies that all "do digital". And how hard can it be?
In truth, agencies are overwhelmed with digital opportunity. So much more reach ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Martin Bailie, glue Isobar
joining the dots between a business' activities and the audiences it seeks. Both client side and agency ...
. Agencies know what they should provide, but they too are poorly structured to create it. Every agency ...
marketing director as its CEO.
Agencies and marketers alike will be forced to forge relationships ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Jim Moffatt and James Temple, R/GA London
to be able to spark and then manage conversations, rather than just spark them.
And a new breed of agency ...
have to say to me?" but "What can you do for me?"
- The successful agency will listen and learn ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Annette King and Emma de la Fosse, OgilvyOne London
every day?
We thought: "What if we all did?"
What if we created a wiki to store all of our agency ...
with one agency?"
Most of this stuff is far less valuable when proprietary than when open. It ...
25 Jun 2010
| by Damian Ferrar and Katie Streten, Imagination
and concierge while you become editor.
As an agency, we are constantly working with our clients, striving ...
as the product or service the brand offers.
Brands and agencies that are enthusiastic about embracing ...