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Something so integral to the success of a brand when acquiring a new agency — the pitch process — is notoriously flawed. Long lead times, long pitch lists, layers of consensus needed to select a ...

It's time to ditch the pitch. Agency reviews and the dysfunctional process that accompany them cost agencies and (by proxy) their clients a whopping $12.5 billion per year. That amount nearly equals ...

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Every agency knows the email. A brand reaches out asking for a proposal and a budget. Within hours, teams are pulling together ideas, strategies and plans in the hope of winning the work. This first ...

When it comes to the process of handling RFPs (requests for proposals) for advertising account pitches, advertisers and agencies often seem far apart. Except on one thing: a majority of both ...

The Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it has streamlined the process by which agencies seek authorization to establish senior executive and some technical positions, shifting the ...