This year’s 2022 New Year Outlook Report appears to be all about the contrasts – particularly in some areas of spending expectations. Last year brought an unwelcome helping of gloom and doom from marketers, as only 41% expected to see...

Agencies have to always be on their game. They have to always be on the hunt to find new business from you, the marketer, and they always need to be pleasing you, the marketer, when they engage with you.  It’s...

The following is a quick reference guide of top Ad Agency Search Consultants for North America. Check out our compiled list of top search consultants, including information on how to reach them. All of the agency search consultants on this...

We recently ran an agency search for a large Texas-based health system looking for special project work help – wanting to still maintain their long-standing (and happy) relationship with their marketing agency. The search wasn’t to replace the existing agency....

As we roll out of another fun-filled year, there are at least 3 things we can all be thankful for. As we all know, the world of finding best-in-class agencies is one of constant change and, ideally, improvement. Marketers like...

Key to a successful agency search is focus. Unfortunately, it’s easy to get distracted in today’s “always on” world. And it’s equally as easy to not keep your agency search focused when there are so many possibilities out there. Search...

We’ve been conducting agency searches for over a decade, and a few times, we’ve seen marketers try to, for lack of a better phrase, “figure it out as they go” when they search for an agency. They use the initial...

There’s a new trend in vogue for some of marketing’s biggest brands – the bespoke agency. Just within the last few weeks, both Mercedes-Benz and Planet Fitness have moved to handcrafted agencies built by marketing networks Omnicom and Publicis, respectively....

The In-house Conversation – Minus The Glitz Most of the conversation around marketing trends centers on the “flashier” parts of the industry: let’s be honest, big-budget Super Bowl ads with all their glitz are going to draw a couple more...

Having played in the Agency-Client Relationship space now for the past 16 years, I’ve seen it all. We work with 50+ different agencies across the nation and talk to 1000’s every month.  I’ve seen agency principals sing the praises of...