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Quote unquote: How agencies get creative with choosing suppliers

Read my lips: ‘I will always obtain multiple quotations for any production or post-production work done on behalf of…

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Taming alligators: Creative Agency Exit Audits

Erika Blomerus, our new Global Audit Manager, has spent a good deal of time auditing creative agencies. She likens the…

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WFA survey report: Achieving greater financial transparency with your media and marketing agencies

Financial Progression has been working with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) on a key piece of peer research:…

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Production Transparency – should advertisers outside the US be concerned?

Fourteen months after its landmark report on media transparency, the ANA has delivered another paper that raises…

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Agency FD left battered and sore? The reality may surprise you…

When you commission a financial audit of one of your agencies, is it inevitably going to destroy the trust in the…

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‘If one of our agencies is overcharging us, could they all be doing it?’

We are often asked 'is agency A better than agency B when it comes to overcharging?'. The surprising answer: 'how your…

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