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 ...
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 ...
16 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Agency salaries have increased 7.7% year on year with planners seeing the biggest percentage...saw last year.
"Agencies are investing more in specialists, strategic planning and having senior ...
salaries have barely kept pace with inflation. Agencies have also seen fees decrease over the years while ...
insurance, with 83.8% of agencies offering it, laptops (81.1%), mobile phones (81.1%), childcare vouchers ...
24 Nov 2011
| by Ian Darby
The profitability of UK marketing services agencies nose-dived by more than 50 per cent during...compared with the same period in 2010, according to the latest figures from the Marketing Agencies Association.
The body, which represents a range of integrated and below-the-line agencies, including Iris ...
at MAA member agencies, compared with 56 per cent last year. Effective cost-cutting by agencies has led ...
22 Jan 2010
| by Mandy Merron
The Top 40 DMSP agencies reported modest total growth in gross income of 3.7 per cent in their most...The slowdown does at least appear to have been relatively controlled, with most agencies that have ...
believe a well-run DMSP agency should be able to achieve an operating profit margin of between 15-20 per ...
for DMSP agencies and controlling these is key to profitability. On average, staff costs consumed 61.2 per ...
26 Mar 2012
Agency Gratterpalm remains in the top spot with clients including Asda, DFS and Greggs....Read Campaign's analysis of the full figures alongside the creative agency league table. ...
09 Jan 2007
| by Staff
The top 300 agencies by 2007 billings, using figures from Nielsen Media Research....This top 300 table, first published in Campaign , ranks the UK's biggest agencies by the combined adspend (billings) of their clients. ...
02 Apr 2012
| by Claire Beale, editor, Campaign
an introduction from editor Claire Beale as well as individual reports for each agency featured and full league...been a disheartening task.
Not because 2011 was a dire year for the ad industry. Fewer agencies were ...
, for many advertising and media agencies, a frustratingly inert year.
The determination with which agencies went about reshaping their businesses when recession hit gave way to a stultifying game of "wait ...