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marketing management consultants
The latest trends in agency remuneration
TrinityP3 Webinar Series
Presented by Darren Woolley
26 August 2015

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marketing management consultants
What we will discuss today
• Remuneration considerations
• Remuneration or compensation
• The various models:
• Models
• Strengths & Weaknesses
• Trends
• Applications
• Questions
• Next sessions

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marketing management consultants
Considerations
Simple to understand and easy to administer.
Fair to both advertiser and agency.
Aligning advertiser and agency interests and priorities.
Finalised before agency resources are committed.
Recorded in a ratified advertiser / agency contract.
Flexible enough to accommodate changes in the future.
Involving senior management, with principles clearly
communicated to the teams on both sides.
Capable of standing the test of time and being
understood by any future Marketing Director.
Based on agreed and understood terms and definitions.
Inclusive of specified tracking and review dates.

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Remunerate or Compensate
Compensation: – noun
1. the act or state of compensating.
2. the state of being compensated.
3. something given or received as an equivalent for
services, debt, loss, injury, suffering, lack, etc.
Remuneration: – noun
1. the act of remunerating.
2. something that remunerates; reward; pay.

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marketing management consultants
Remuneration Models
• Most common remuneration models:
• Commission & Service Fees
• Resource Package Fees (Retainer)
• Variable fees based on actual hours
• Project Fees
• Hybrids
• Latest Trends:
• Move from cost to value based
• Return of the commission
• Incentive based models

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marketing management consultants
Commission & Service Fee
Advantages
• Simple in the case of media
advertising.
• Easy to calculate and
administer.
• Parties focused on quality not
cost.
• A crude form of PBR with a
higher Media spend leading to
greater agency earning.
Disadvantages
• Based on volume of Media
spend, not scope of work.
• Inappropriate were Media is not
a major component of the
output.
• Does not encourage Media
neutral solutions.
• Cancellations of spend has a
severe effect on agency income.
• Based on the traditional media commission paid by
the media proprietor
• Making a come back in digital media
• Or used in combination with other models.

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marketing management consultants
Resource Package Fees (Retainers)
Advantages
• Agency knows its income and
can resource appropriately.
• Advertiser knows cost and
can budget appropriately.
• Encourages more Media
neutral solutions.
Disadvantages
• Requires the scope of work to
be accurately defined.
• Does not allow for major
changes in scope of work.
• Input based and therefore less
accountable.
• Often time consuming to
negotiate and administer.
• Ideally based on an agreed scope of work.
• Based on salary costs of required resources at % of
their annual billable hours by an overhead factor and
the agreed profit margin.
• Most common remuneration model in the market.

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marketing management consultants
Variable Fees based on Actual Hours
Advantages
• Relatively easy to administer,
provided agencies maintain
accurate timesheets.
• Reflects advertiser needs and
agency activity.
• Allows flexibility should scope
of work changes.
• Allows agency return based
on clearly defined process
and actual deliverables.
Disadvantages
• Difficult for advertiser to budget.
• Difficult for agency to resource.
• Requires accurate time sheet
process and requires audit in
disputes.
• Lack of accountability with no
incentive for efficiency.
• Fees are based on actual time spent using an hourly
rate for individual staff.
• Charge out rates either calculated or ‘market’.
• More common in marketing services contracts

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Project Fees
Advantages
• Easy to control expenditure.
• Often used to top up retainers
for work outside the agreed
scope.
• Reflects specific advertiser
needs.
• Suits integrated or niche
services.
Disadvantages
• Inclined to encourage a short
term focus rather than longer
term relationships.
• Agency does not have the same
level of confidence in
remuneration unless scope of
work defined up front.
• Tends to come at a higher cost
compared to the retainer.
• Project fees alternative to fixed annual fees,
determined and paid on an individual project basis.
• Often used for ad hoc projects, paid either on
completion of the individual project or for projects
completed in the month, quarter or year.

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marketing management consultants
Input/Costs to Outcome/Value
• Most of the existing models are input / cost based
that reward volume of work and not effectiveness.
• The current best practice is to move to an output
based / pricing model that fixes the value based on
output.
• The leading trend is for a value based
remuneration model where the reward is based on
the value created or contributed.
Input / Cost
Output /
Price
Outcome /
Value

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marketing management consultants
Inputs vs Outputs vs Outcomes
Model Positives Negatives
Inputs /
Costs
• Resource / Head hour
based
• No direct link to volume
or scope of work
• Simple to implement
• Multiple points of
negotiation including
salary cost, overhead
and profit
• Rewards increased
volume rather than
effectiveness
• Based on head hours /
timesheets which are
unreliable
Outputs /
Price
• Based on scope of
work / outputs /
deliverables
• Price agreed and set
on historical basis
• Values the output
rather than the cost
• Makes budgeting
easier
• Adjusting
remuneration easier
• Rewards increased
volume rather than
effectiveness
• Issues arise when work
commissioned then
cancelled
Outcomes /
Value
• Based on the value
created by the activity
• Either all or the bulk of
remuneration / profit
• More like profit sharing
than bonus
• Links agency
remuneration to
outcomes / value
• Brings alignment
between suppliers
and marketers if
correctly
implemented
• Requires measurement
of marketing
effectiveness
• Difficult to get many
agencies to agree on
measures

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marketing management consultants
Performance or Incentive
Benefits:
• Improved agency performance.
• Improved advertiser performance.
• Goal alignment and congruence.
Types:
• Bonus - additional to the agreed profit margin.
• Cost recovery - represents all profit.
• Shared risk and reward - agency puts % of margin
at risk and advertiser meets that % in pool.
• Earn back - agency puts % of margin at risk to be
paid in results.

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marketing management consultants
Performance Criteria
Business Performance (Hard)
• EG. sales, traffic, profit, market share, volume growth, etc. These can
be measured by the same criteria that the advertiser uses for their
internal bonus systems.
Advertising Performance (Medium)
• EG: product awareness, ad awareness measures, consumer
measures, attitude ratings, persuasion, purchase intent, awards,
brand equity, image, effectiveness awards, etc.
Agency Performance (Soft)
• Relates to the evaluation of agency functional areas: account
services, creative and media in terms of: performance, service,
relationship, cost efficiencies, etc.

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marketing management consultants
Performance Criteria
Business Performance
• Sales Volume
• Volume Growth
• Relative Brand
Performance
• Composite
Performance
• Market/brand share
• Customer loyalty
• Brand equity
• Brand profitability
Advertising Performance
• Advertising Awareness
• Brand Image Shifts
• Attitude Ratings
• Ad enjoyment
• Brand personality
• Predisposition to buy
• Ad scores
• Persuasion index
Agency Performance
• Agency Service
delivery*
• Relationship
Management*
• Functional
competencies*
• Contribution to
‘branding’
• Project management*
• Administration*
• Cost Efficiency*
• Pro-activity*
• Collaboration*
* Can be measured, managed and maximised using Evalu8ing. Find out more at www.evalu8ing.com

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marketing management consultants
In Summary
• The market continues to evolve looking for more
effective remuneration models
• There are popular models but no perfect models
• There is a trend from cost/input based to value/output
models
• Important to match the model to the situation
QUESTIONS?

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