04 Jul 2007
| by David Tiltman
LONDON - Marketing magazine publishes its annual league table of top design agencies....Marketing magazine Design League table Rank Agency Fee income Fee income % change Turnover 2006 ( ) 2005 ( ) 206 ( ) 1 Imagination Group 31,248,000 29,818,000 5 ...
for agencies affected by Sarbanes-Oxley Act ...
17 Jun 2008
| by Nicola Clark
of categories,' she says. These categories are limited - thankfully, say agencies - and there will be no repeat ...
highlighted by some of the agencies surveyed. In addition, a number of companies also cited recruitment as a ...
of insulation from short-term cuts in marketing budgets. However, some agencies claim that if the economic ...
22 Jan 2010
| by Mandy Merron
, but struggled to convert this into operating profits. Gross income across the Top 30 agencies increased by 18...reporting operating losses. Between them, the losses posted by DM Europe, Asia Digital Holdings and Agency.com wiped out any increases in profits from other agencies. Despite this, there were some good individual ...
, it was the increase in other overheads that helped to significantly decrease the margin. It's clear that agencies need ...
22 Jan 2010
| by Mandy Merron
per cent, which 21 of the Top 30 media buying companies achieved. All but three agencies achieved ...
. Independently owned agencies are, on the whole, smaller than group-owned ones as they cannot benefit from the sheer economy of output from well-backed group-owned agencies. They do, however, represent a 14 per cent ...
22 Jan 2010
| by Mandy Merron
The Top 50 advertising agencies' accounts reviewed here are likely to be the last set of promising results before the full effects of the recession are felt. Looking mostly at results from 2008, agencies ...
50. Only two agencies recorded an operating loss, although there were a number whose results had ...
22 Oct 2009
| by Becky Charles
While other disciplines struggle in the tough economy, digital agencies are reaping the rewards....2% to 23.5%.
In this context, it should come as no surprise that several agencies, including AKQA ...
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The downturn has also led marketers to reassess their agency arrangements, many shifting digital work to their ad agency.
However, Juliet Blackburn, head of digital at the AAR, has observed that, in some cases ...
07 Oct 2009
| by Ed Kemp
Sponsorship has become distinctly unfashionable; today, most brands, rights-holders and agencies would rather ...
executive at sponsorship agency Synergy. 'Now rights-holders are thinking more like marketers ...
their lives trying to make themselves more trusted,' says Adam Wylie, managing partner at integrated agency 23 ...
07 Dec 2010
| by Gemma Charles
Adam & Eve has won Marketing's coveted Agency of the Year award in the creative category, seeing.... The agency also secured Kraft Foods' consolidated 50m media planning and buying account, following its takeover of Cadbury.
Dare was named top digital agency for the second year in a row, while Billington ...
agency MEC Access and customer publisher Fitzgerald Shurey Tarbuck were first-time winners ...
20 May 2010
| by Ian Darby
dissatisfaction with agencies over costs and transparency, and a continued downward trend in the average rates...The report points out that though ad agency fee rates are down, their profit margins "remain ...
time in 13 years, net payment rates to media agencies have risen. Debbie Morrison, ISBA's director ...
incorporated into mainstream agency deals and the higher fee levels they command". The report also reveals ...
01 Jul 2009
| by Scott Billings
Design agencies are being called on to demonstrate their adaptability as the tough economy...marketing budgets and put projects on hold, agency margins are squeezed. There is no denying it has been a tough year so far, but the picture for design agencies appears to be mixed: some agency heads ...
consultancy Honey, design agencies need more business acumen to remain profitable and successful. 'It's about ...