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A common problem for planners moving markets is understanding the best agencies to work for. With a great list of international planners in the Planning Dirty newsletter group I thought I would ask the planners who they thought was the best agency to work for.
I compiled the first 10 agencies for the shortlist by analyzing the planning (IPA, Effies, Jay Chiats) and creative awards (Gunn Report) from the last three year looking at the agencies that consistently perform well.
I am making a shortlist of 20, so would love to get recommendations on agencies that you think should make the list.
Next week on the newsletter through an anonymous vote, I’ll put out the poll and report back the results. Sign up to the Planning Dirty newsletter to vote and get the best planning tools and resources fortnightly. bit.ly/PlanningDirty
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
Julian Cole, Head of Communications Planning at BBH, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 23rd at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
Here are 17 of the best free online tools for Digital Strategists to help cultivate killer insights on consumers, competitors and the industry. In this toolbox we you will find how to use each tool with an example insight drawn for the client, as well as each of their benefits and limitations.
The tools helps to conduct Consumer Research, Category Research, Discourse Analysis and Environmental analysis.
This is a presentation from the online course 'Crash Course to Digital Strategy' that you can sign up to on Skillshare for $20 http://skl.sh/VOj2ol
Writing a Digital Creative Brief and a Communications Framework is a key role of a great Digital Strategist. In this presentation I cover the most important parts of writing a brief and communications framework. Using examples of stand out work from the past five years.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
Rick James Model for selling innovative ideasJulian Cole
This is a model that should be helpful in selling in innovative/non-traditional ideas that are usually quite hard to sell to clients/bosses.
@juliancole
Lovemarks Presentation - Brand Pioneers April 9 2013Panelteam
Lovemarks
Arjan Kapteijns – CEO Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is the Lovemarks company. Arjan looked closely at the question: What makes some brands inspirational, while others struggle? With inspiring case studies he will explain what Lovemarks are and how they deliver beyond their expectations of great performance.
Effectiveness is at the heart of everything we do. David Ogilvy himself wrote a series of full-page ads in the New York Times in the 1960s with headlines such as "How To Create Advertising That Sells." His most famous book, Ogilvy on Advertising, is packed with guidance on the success factors of effective campaigns.
However, the marketing landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past fifty years. We are delighted to share our latest publication, The Ogilvy & Mather guide to effectiveness. In it, Worldwide Effectiveness Director, Tim Broadbent, deals with one of the most central questions in marketing: how to increase the effectiveness of our campaigns.
As marketing budgets come under increasing pressure in response to economic uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, effectiveness is rising higher on clients' agendas. The message is timely.
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
We’ve been drawing on Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute to help explain how brands can grow to become market leaders. Let's break down the difference between differentiation and distinctiveness, and which of the two unlocks the potential for true brand innovation.
This is a fantastic presentation from Marty Neumeier from his book Zag. If you are short of time skip to slides 63 - 68 to see the evolution from marketing to branding. Love it.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
*Disclaimer this is just my imaginary example of a Comms Plan for the Puma work and not the actual strategy that was created by Droga5 for Puma. I had nothing to do with that plan and am just a fan of their work.
What is Comms Planning? is a presentation that provides a clear answer of the role of the Comms Planner within an Advertising Agency. I use the example of the Puma Social campaign to prove the point.
Julian Cole, Head of Communications Planning at BBH, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 23rd at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
Here are 17 of the best free online tools for Digital Strategists to help cultivate killer insights on consumers, competitors and the industry. In this toolbox we you will find how to use each tool with an example insight drawn for the client, as well as each of their benefits and limitations.
The tools helps to conduct Consumer Research, Category Research, Discourse Analysis and Environmental analysis.
This is a presentation from the online course 'Crash Course to Digital Strategy' that you can sign up to on Skillshare for $20 http://skl.sh/VOj2ol
Writing a Digital Creative Brief and a Communications Framework is a key role of a great Digital Strategist. In this presentation I cover the most important parts of writing a brief and communications framework. Using examples of stand out work from the past five years.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
Rick James Model for selling innovative ideasJulian Cole
This is a model that should be helpful in selling in innovative/non-traditional ideas that are usually quite hard to sell to clients/bosses.
@juliancole
Lovemarks Presentation - Brand Pioneers April 9 2013Panelteam
Lovemarks
Arjan Kapteijns – CEO Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is the Lovemarks company. Arjan looked closely at the question: What makes some brands inspirational, while others struggle? With inspiring case studies he will explain what Lovemarks are and how they deliver beyond their expectations of great performance.
Effectiveness is at the heart of everything we do. David Ogilvy himself wrote a series of full-page ads in the New York Times in the 1960s with headlines such as "How To Create Advertising That Sells." His most famous book, Ogilvy on Advertising, is packed with guidance on the success factors of effective campaigns.
However, the marketing landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past fifty years. We are delighted to share our latest publication, The Ogilvy & Mather guide to effectiveness. In it, Worldwide Effectiveness Director, Tim Broadbent, deals with one of the most central questions in marketing: how to increase the effectiveness of our campaigns.
As marketing budgets come under increasing pressure in response to economic uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, effectiveness is rising higher on clients' agendas. The message is timely.
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
We’ve been drawing on Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute to help explain how brands can grow to become market leaders. Let's break down the difference between differentiation and distinctiveness, and which of the two unlocks the potential for true brand innovation.
This is a fantastic presentation from Marty Neumeier from his book Zag. If you are short of time skip to slides 63 - 68 to see the evolution from marketing to branding. Love it.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
*Disclaimer this is just my imaginary example of a Comms Plan for the Puma work and not the actual strategy that was created by Droga5 for Puma. I had nothing to do with that plan and am just a fan of their work.
What is Comms Planning? is a presentation that provides a clear answer of the role of the Comms Planner within an Advertising Agency. I use the example of the Puma Social campaign to prove the point.
European Planners Conference 2014: Building Social Currency requires Agile Th...Kris Hoet
My presentation for the European Planner Conference 2014 in Prague about how we try to integrate agile thinking into our strategic process at Duval Guillaume.
6 steps to creating a Social Media StrategyJulian Cole
Pay with a tweet to download the presentation - goo.gl/5Jw21
This presentation is part of the Skillshare class I taught on 'Creating a great Social Media Strategy'. I am teaching 'A crash course in Digital Strategy' on February 11th. You can sign up to the online course for $20 - http://skl.sh/VOj2ol
Why Growth Hacking is the Next Big Thing for MarketingAna Andjelic
Presentation I've given at the Golden Drum Conference in Slovenia. I shared with the audience how the growth hacking mindset and methodology inspires new marketing approach, and its tools and tactics. Lessons from startups like Airbnb, Uber, Seamless and Farfetch are analyzed and applied to the legacy brands. Hopefully, the deck will give you ideas in your own work!
To truly practice what we preach, we have decided to begin measuring how we score on our own rubric. We're looking for other orgs to help us validate this as a product and help us define some benchmarks. More details at Responsive.org.
How I learned to stop worrying about the brandGareth Kay
My slides (that make even less sense without v/o) from Planningness 2016. Marketers and the folks who advise them obsess over the brand. But what if our obsession is wrong? What if how we think about a brand is ill defined? What if we need to rethink what we do to focus on the end result, not the means? This session will lay out my misgivings with how we obsess over the brand and give practical advice about how we might do things that are more valuable to people and businesses. (Also hit presentation gold getting Dr Strangelove, Bob Mould and David Bowie into one presentation).
Future of advertising: Agency as a platformAjinkya Pawar
Advertising is dead. Long live Advertising.
Advertising agency business model as we know it, is dead. Dwindling margins, frequent pitches, FB, Google & consultancies stealing growth from WPP, Publicis and other holding companies... The business is obviously broken.
Here's my idea to fix it.
Earlier, I had written about this idea here - https://truthaboutbranding.com/2016/12/14/the-advertising-agencies-of-future-will-be-open-sourced/
for which I won the WPP Atticus Award 2016.
Here is a roundup of 2017 Cannes Lions facts, stats, & notable news, our take on four key trends from work that won (including case studies of the winning work), and thought leadership from DigitasLBi attendees.
I recently gave a presentation at the Leading Social Academy on my favourite campaigns that made waves in Cannes 2018. It features excerpts from a fantastic website called www.LoveTheWork.com as well as my own takes on why the campaigns were successful.
The featured campaigns include:
JFK Unsilenced
It's a Tide Ad
Savlon Healthy Hands Chalk Sticks
Ladbible's Trash Aisles
Apple's Welcome Home
Just to reiterate - I don't own the content of the ads and some of the analysis - this is the property of the agencies, brands and LoveTheWork.com.
The Holmes Report's 2014 Global Creative Index again analyses entries and winners from more than 25 PR award programmes from around the world, to determine the best performing campaigns and agencies.
The Holmes Report's Global Creative Index analyses entries and winners from more than 25 PR award programmes from around the world, to determine the most creative campaigns and agencies in the PR world.
BAV & Kantar @ Cannes: The Power of PurposeBAV Group
During day three of the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival, Y&R Global CEO David Sable and Laura Jones, Executive Strategy Director of Y&R’s BAV Group, joined Kantar during a session focused on brands and the power of purpose. They examined the ways in which brand purpose can drive staying power and longevity in the market—as well as the many pitfalls to achieving these goals.
The 2016 New Business League report looks at the creative, digital and media agencies business wins (and losses) over 2016, both globally and in several major markets.
The Good Report celebrates creativity that promotes sustainability and social responsibility, and this year BBDO was awarded as the #1 Network for Good.
Get Advertising Smart - Creativity and your business' bottom lineemmersons1
The relationship between creativity and business success is well-established; this week, we look at the Cannes Lions Creative Effectiveness winners, who provide fresh evidence of this powerful relationship.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
How to Use AI to Write a High-Quality Article that Ranksminatamang0021
In the world of content creation, many AI bloggers have drifted away from their original vision, resulting in low-quality articles that search engines overlook. Don't let that happen to you! Join us to discover how to leverage AI tools effectively to craft high-quality content that not only captures your audience's attention but also ranks well on search engines.
Disclaimer: Some of the prompts mentioned here are the examples of Matt Diggity. Please use it as reference and make your own custom prompts.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
https://nidmindia.com/
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
2. METHODOLOGY
Analyzing the Gunn Report, Effies, Jay Chiat, and IPA
awards from the last 3 years these were the top
agencies from around the world.
Next week on the Planning Dirty newsletter I am
going to get an anonymous vote for the what
planners think is the best agency to work at for
planning.
3. DROGA5 NEW YORK
Droga5 New York in the last 5 years crossed over
from small independent agency to being one of
the biggest agencies in New York.
Planning has been at the center of the agency
process however they keep a low profile in the
media when it comes talking about what they do.
However the results speak for themselves they
have had a good showing at the Jay Chiat’s
winning across categories from Under Armour I
Will What I Want, Airwick ‘Home Is In The Air’,
Newcastle Brown Ale ‘If We Made It’, to the
Clinton Foundation ‘Not There’.
CSO JONNY BAUER
4. AMV BBDO LONDON
AMV consistently have a great showing in the IPA
awards which arguably are the most rigorous
planning awards globally.
Last year they were able to pick up awards at the
IPA for Snickers, Guinness, Pepsi, Sainsbury.
Equalling the number of awards with Agency of
the Year DDB Adam&Eve
JOINT CSO: BRIDGET ANGEAR & CRAIG MAWDSLEY
5. GREY LONDON
The agency was behind one of the best
performing works last year at Cannes the double
Grand Prix winner Volvo Paint.
They also consistently perform well at the IPA
awards, they were the 2014 IPA Agency of the
Year and last year they continued that good form
with awards for Sensodyne, Sixt, Volvo and
McVite’s.
This year, Grey London has also changed the
name of their agency for 100 days to Valenstein &
Fatt in a move to highlight its jewish founders and
highlight prejudice that exist in the industry.
CSO: MATT TANTER
6. CLEMENGER BBDO AUSTRALIA
The agency consistently performs well in both
creative and planning awards. In the last month
they were named most awarded agency in the
world for D&AD and they also had a clean sweep
of the APAC Effies Gold along with sister agency
BBDO Colenso.
Their iconic work for Bond’s ‘The Boys, TAC ‘Meet
Graham’ and Snickers ‘Hungerithm’ have been
global standouts for the last 12 months.
CSO: PAUL REES JONES/KIT LANSDELL
7. MCCANN NEW YORK
In terms of transformations, McCann New York
has had the biggest in North America over the last
3 years.
They have gone from another one of the big
network agencies to consistently producing the
most talked about pieces of advertising every
year. This year it is Fearless Girl, last year Field
Trip to Mars.
They have been consistently leading the network
charge on thought leadership papers under
McCann’s Truth Central.
CSO STEVE ZAROFF
8. WIEDEN & KENNEDY AMSTERDAM
Wieden and Kennedy’s Amsterdam office has
always been a strong point in their network.
Producing a lot of the iconic european Nike work.
They have one of the most thought provoking and
generous with their time CSO at the helm Martin
Weigel.
Martin blog Canalside View has been dropping
pearls of wisdom for the past 7 years. This is all
coming to head soon with Weigel about to author
his first book.
CSO: MARTIN WEIGEL
9. FP7/DXB DUBAI
Consistently one of the top two agencies in the
global Effies Index for the past three years. They
were the most effective agency in the world last
year.
They did this on the back of fully integrated
campaigns for Fanta, Coca Cola, SmartLife,
Emirates and Sony which all picked up Golds in
multiple categories at the MENA Effies.
CSO: TAHAAB RAIS
10. SANCHO BBDO COLOMBIA
In an ongoing battle with FP7 to be the most
effective agency in the world according to the
Effies Index.
They are the leaders in advertising effectiveness
in South America winning the last four years at the
Effies South America.
Last year they were able to create iconic work for
Visa, Pepsi, Pernod Ricard
CSO: ANDRES CARVAJAL
11. ADAM&EVE DDB LONDON
Adam&Eve are the planning powerhouses of the
UK. They have picked up the Grand Prix for the
IPA Effectiveness Awards for the last three times
with (John Lewis in 2016 and 2012 and Foster’s in
2014)
That is in no small part to having Les Binet
heading up effectiveness for the agency.
Les is one half of the power duo of Field and Binet
that have helped shape advertising effectiveness
over the last ten years with their pivotal IPA
papers such as ‘Long and Short of It’ and
‘Marketing in the Era of Accountability’.
CSO: ALEX HESZ
12. OGILVY & MATHER NEW YORK
Ogilvy has made a name for itself as being able to
deliver business strategy not just advertising.
Going upstream in client organisations they often
have a great showing at the planning awards
doing much more than just creative work.
New York is the hub for this thinking and it shows
in the planning awards that they pick up every
year for key clients like IBM, Kimberly Clark and
American Express.
HEAD OF PLANNING: COLIN DRUMMOND