Marketing Procurement

McDonald’s Corporation approaches global agency networks for creative solution

McDonald’s Corporation announced on April 25 it had started the search for a new creative agency solution and that it had invited three global agency networks to prepare proposals. Flock.

Consciously Decoupling: ‘Should I Use a Production Agency?’

The agency landscape is constantly shifting along with the requirements and demands of advertisers. There is a growing trend to ‘decouple’ production from creative agencies as  production functions are going.

How to Design The Best KPIs for a High-Performing Ecosystem

Using Key Performance Indicators – KPIs – To Connect the Dots in Your Marketing Operation “The Numbers Never Lie.” Never has this adage been more relevant than in today’s marketing.

Procurement vs marketing – does it always have to be that way?

  The relationship between marketing and procurement is a crucial one. But it can often be tense and sometimes organisationally divisive. So in those companies where the two departments work.

Ten Marketing Pitches, Ten Top Pitch Tips

At Flock, as part of our work transforming advertisers’ marketing ecosystems, we do a lot of marketing procurement work sourcing marketing agencies for advertisers. From our last ten pitches we.

Marketing Transformation – ‘Working’ and ‘Non-Working’ spend.

The marketing industry is a hotbed of terminology – phrases and words specifically coined to describe digital or social phenomena. While each addition to the marketing vocabulary has its purpose,.

Integrating Marketing Procurement

Lisa was a good marketing procurement director. She worked with marketing to get a good specification of work, she set strong but achievable KPIs that were well benchmarked, she ran good processes, she.

Flock Associates is recognised by the Irish Institute of Advertising Practitioners as an accredited Pitch Consultant.

Flock Associates is proud to have been recognised this morning by the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI). The IAPI along with the AAI makes sure that not everybody.

Media Pitch and Media Consolidation Timing and Management

Is there a ‘right time’ to pitch your media? Over the past year there have been some pretty big media pitches and media consolidations announced – Vodafone, Heinz, Microsoft and.

The Client Agency Relationship – Making Integrated Marketing Love Blossom

The quality of the relationship between marketing and procurement clients and their agencies, determines the quality of the work the clients will receive. But it is not only down to.

Dixons agency pitch resolves in new appointment

In September 2013 it was revealed that Dixons Retail plc had decided to review their UK, lead advertising communications agency and had called a pitch. As one of the largest.

Flock’s Integrated Pitches delight Marketing, Procurement and Agencies

To drive marketing integration it is sometimes necessary to press “restart” on an agency relationship or to find a new agency resource. A pitch is an imperfect process but they.