Can agencies really expect to recruit, retain and incentivise their people without a rise in baseline salaries, asks Nick Manning.
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It’s easy to get carried away by the popularity of streaming platforms but they are no match for our domestic broadcasters in appealing to UK audiences.
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Nick Manning discusses his recent column in which he argues advertisers can no longer be passive observers as their spending funds a media ecosystem which is suffering from a “crisis of trust”.
A raft of recent company earnings reports demonstrates that we have reached the end of an era where advertising supported the exponential growth in online channels.
There is a lot of discussion about ‘purpose’ in advertising, but less about the purpose of advertising. And that purpose is to be effective.
‘Truth decay’ is irreversible and we have to learn to deal with it. Advertisers, whose money funds the lion’s share of commercial media, can do a lot more.
Chief media officer is a big job and somebody has to do it for advertisers, argues Nick Manning.
Focussing on media cost over investment and audience delivery is damaging advertising effectiveness.