What exactly is the Summit?

The AdForum Worldwide Summit is a program for search consultants and global agencies.

For over 20 years, the AdForum Summit event has bridged the gap between marketers and advertising agencies in a continually evolving marketing landscape, allowing some of the leading influencers in the industry to evaluate and connect with one another on a creative & strategic partnership level.

It is a unique and highly focused event gathering the leading agency management & search consultants drawn from markets around the world with agency network CEOs and leadership teams from all disciplines, including creative, media, social, content, digital, PR, direct and other marketing services.

It is an invitation-only event that brings top players in the industry together and offers them the chance to grow their business, network, and experience how they are shaping the future.

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Meetings of CEOs & leadership teams from networks and specialized agencies

Agencies

Participating agencies have private meetings with search consultants from around the world in order to share their insights about industry trends, discuss agency goals, strategies, and key corporate messages.

In other words, they can share their “view from the top” during these closed-doors meetings to this important and highly influential new business community.

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Agency Search Consultants from around the globe handling thousands pitches/year

Consultants

In the fast changing advertising world, the event provides the consultants with the opportunity to assess and forecast global advertising industry trends, meet Advertising global leaders and, with up-to-date information constantly being exchanged, an exclusive forum to share ideas, challenges and opportunities. In short, it is a very efficient of on top of agencies strategies and get a fresh view of latest trends.

Held twice a year virtually or at global centers such as New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam or Shanghai, the agency meetings providing the Ad Industry leaders and the world New Business movers a unique opportunity to share their perspectives and assess and forecast global advertising industry trends.

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Testimonials

Debra Wurzel - Consultant

External View Consulting Group

AdForum Summit 2012 was my second summit and I have to say they just keep getting better! There is simply no better opportunity for search consultants to meet – and really get to know – so many agencies in such a short period of time. Yes, it's definitely a busy week, packed full of agency presentations – and some great meals! – but as a consultant, my clients rely on me to have a thorough understanding of agencies who have expertise in a wide range of areas, from multi–national network agencies...

Arthur Sadoun - CEO

Publicis Groupe

I consider we are partners in an industry that is being transformed. So, I am trying to use the brain of the consultants to understand if I am at the right place and get challenged as I am everytime by them. 

Dan Pearlman - CEO/Managing Partner

bob wolf partners/ TPG

Adforum has been terrific. Being headquartered in Los Angeles, I use it to bone up on what is going up in New York, Chicago, Europe, in terms of top agencies, best practices, and it keeps me fresh about new ideas, new resources to call upon for certain kind of reviews. 

Mark Read - CEO

WPP

Having a close partnership with the consultants is critically important. The better they know us, the better are their recommendation to the clients. 

Zahn Rossouw - Senior Consultant

Yardstick

This was my first AdForum and I arrived in NY with ill-defined expectations. Be that as it may, I left AdForum with a wealth of knowledge and a much stronger network of friends and peers. It was worth the long and exhausting flight and the cost.

Troy Ruhanen -

TBWA

We are getting a lot of invitations to clients that we would not normally have met and quite frankly it has been very productive for us. It has been one of the best thing we have invested into. I don’t understand why people would’nt do it more often.

Johanna McDowell - Founder

IAS

The IAS has attended the Ad Forum summits in New York and various cities in Europe for the past four years. WE have found these summits to e excellent as sources of information and latest trends in leading agencies, an excellent method to reach the global CEO’s of some of the leading advertising agencies in the world and a unique opportunity to network with other consultants from other countries. The Summits encourage sharing of best practice in our industry and have proved invaluable to the IAS...

César Vacchiano de la Concepción - Presidente & CEO

Grupo Consultores

AdForum Summits are the unique point of encounter of all agency consultants in the World. Twice a year, all consultants meet the leading agencies’ CEOs and get an update on the news and visions of their agencies, capabilities, people, client wins and new campaigns. At the same time the consultants leave competition behind them and work together sharing insights and processes to improve the industry profile and together develop best practices. 

Andrew Robertson -

BBDO

It is a good opportunity to meet all the consultants in one place at the same time. It is pretty efficient. 

Sir Martin Sorrell - Founder and CEO

S4Capital

Having a strong relationship with Consultants is really important, they are important stakeholders in our industry and indeed for our clients. 

Debbie Morrison - Managing Director Global Partnerships & Events

Ebiquity, Inc

I learn more in one week than I would learn in a year meeting agencies. And Adforum open doors of CEO that we would not be able to reach on our own.

Will Hamilton - Owner

Hamilton Associates

For the last five years I have worked as an Intermediary in the UK, this was the first time I had attended Adforum in New York.A great success on all fronts: from a knowledge perspective we gained a perspective from every agency as to how they were shaping the future.For the consultants it allowed us to share our individual experiences, and for the agencies it gave them a chance to showcase their expertise and vision for the future.With access to the most senior personnel It was a bounding succe...

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Search Consultants at AdForum Summit

In the fast changing advertising world, the event provides the consultants with the opportunity to assess and forecast global advertising industry trends, meet Advertising global leaders and, with up-to-date information constantly being exchanged, an exclusive forum to share ideas, challenges and opportunities. In short, it is a very efficient of on top of agencies strategies and get a fresh view of latest trends.

In the fast changing advertising world, the event provides the consultants with the opportunity to assess and forecast global advertising industry trends, meet Advertising global leaders and, with up-to-date information constantly being exchanged, an exclusive forum to share ideas, challenges and opportunities. In short, it is a very efficient of on top of agencies strategies and get a fresh view of latest trends.