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After lockdown: the creative agency market

Stephen Waddington

The agency market is in flux as the economy reinflates. Agencies are facing the following opportunities. What’s your take on the industry and what are other agencies doing? By comparison, during the 2008 recession GDP shrunk by no more than 2.1% It is also creating opportunities for smart, assertive agencies.

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From start-up to PR powerhouse: Looking back at 15 years of Presspage

Presspage

In 2008, Bart, Sébastien and Tim were working with a PR agency to promote their first young company, Viddix. “We Sébastien adds that the agency had never seen a platform quite like their press page: "Next thing we knew, they asked if we'd be interested in offering it as a product to some of their clients", he says.

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Communicating with Creativity not C.R.A.P. with Beth Nyland on Growing Social Now with Barbara Rozgonyi

wiredPRworks

This was an interview I was so looking forward to – after all, Beth and I go way, way, way back to the early days when corporate communications was just making the transition to the first evolution of social media: the intranet. ” says Beth Nyland, the Corporate Poet & Cutter of C.R.A.P. “Do you offer solutions?

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

As HubSpot’s first agency partner back in 2008 , we’ve built our firm on the back of automation and have witnessed it transform the industry over the last decade. We’ve decided to accelerate the transformation to drive efficiency and performance for our agency and our clients. Are you ready? Is your company ready?

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By Then the economy changed.

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Behind the Headlines With Kim Spear

Cision

Kim Spear, director at Newgate Communications, has helped her clients build brands in China and also worked with sponsors during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What was it like to work with sponsors during the 2008 Beijing Olympics? But if you don’t understand how your brand fits into its specific market, you won’t be able to stand out.

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Exploring Best Practices in Global Communications

PRSay

So many of the best and brightest journalists, executives, diplomats and PR folk descended on Beijing as part of the buildup to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. My two-year assignment in Beijing extended to 11 years in China where I also led corporate communications for Ford Asia Pacific.