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Evaluating board performance: Assessing effectiveness to strengthen governance

Wadds Inc.

supports creative agencies with company direction and differentiated propositions. It’s a common governance risk found in organisations of all sizes. This recommends alignment between corporate culture, purpose, values and business strategy and promotes integrity and diversity in business. Ian Davidson is chairman of Wadds Inc.

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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? Here are five areas in which I’m helping my agency clients work through the current business environment. But there’s plenty of opportunity.

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Structuring effective board meetings: A blueprint for creative agencies

Wadds Inc.

supports creative agencies with company direction and differentiated propositions. Busy creative agency owners have many competing priorities, and sometimes, regular board meetings can be the (wrong) thing to drop off the list.

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How agencies can benefit from R&D tax relief to drive innovation

Stephen Waddington

Sophie Smith Agencies can claim a proportion of research and development investment costs against their Corporation Tax. This is a government incentive aimed at encouraging innovation among UK companies. This is likely to be most applicable to agencies in the creative and professional services sector.

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United we Brand? Top Reads on Corporate Activism

Flack's Revenge

It was a more innocent time and easier for businesses to step up to the plate when government was not doing its job. This NY Times story reports that an employee revolt led a PR agency to drop a contract they’d just won for a private company that runs border detention centers. Should brands take a stand? Today it’s more complicated.

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Notes on the UK public relations agency market

Wadds Inc.

Some observations and suggestions for public relations agency managers from our wheelhouse. Public relations agencies have either narrowly hit Q1 business targets or missed them by a small margin. The agency market has switched from being relatively buoyant at the end of Q3 2022 to a slowdown. The slowdown is impacting payments.

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PR Agency Search: Priorities in a PR Expanded World

Deirdre Breakenridge

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. That’s a lot of new agencies being hired, but it also means other agencies will be dropped.

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