February 28, 2012
Our Business Director in Melbourne, Tony Quail, sent me this article from CFO.com with the headline: Finance vs. Marketing - Why they still don’t see eye to eye on measures of return. I have always been interested in the perception of misalignment between the CFO and the CMO or between… read more
February 26, 2012
I was having a coffee with a friend who was a recently-redundant creative director at one of the larger agencies around town. He had decided to now go out on his own, funded by the redundancy package from the agency. And while in the past he would rib me about “lowering the quality and… read more
February 23, 2012
It is constantly amazing the industry media frenzy that is associated with an advertiser reviewing their business. I am sure many marketers wish that their new product launch or their campaign results attracted the same level of media interest that a pitch does. But this is why running a rev… read more
February 21, 2012
No matter if it is TV, cinema, radio, online, print or digital, we invariably notice that budget over-runs, blowouts and increases are caused by changes in the specification of the task during or after the production process rather than in the concept or pre-production stage. In one case we… read more
February 19, 2012
No one wants to be paying too much for their advertising. But likewise, there are downsides to paying too little. We see it all the time, advertisers call us in because they are unhappy with the performance and service levels provided by their agency. When we benchmark the agency remuneratio… read more