Ad agencies often specialize in a particular type of business or focus on a special market and/or
Question:
Ad agencies often specialize in a particular type of business or focus on a special market and/or consumer. Visit the Web sites for the following agencies:
■ Bates/Lee: www.bates-lee.com
■ BBDO: www.bbdo.com
■ Crispin Porter 1 Bogusky: www.cpbgroup.com
■ DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc.: www.ddb.com
■ Fallon: www.fallon.com
■ Foote, Cone & Belding: www.fcb.com
■ GroundZero: www.groundzero.com
■ JWT: www.jwtworks.com
■ Kirshenbaum Bond 1 Partners: www.kb.com
■ Leo Burnett: www.leoburnett.com
■ McCann-Erickson: www.mccann.com
■ Modem Media: www.modemmedia.com
■ Muse Communications: www.museusa.com
■ Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide: www.ogilvy.com
■ RPA: www.rpa.com
■ Saatchi & Saatchi: www.saatchi-saatchi.com
■ TBWA Chiat/Day: www.tbwachiat.com
■ TeamOne Advertising: www.teamoneadv.com
■ The Phelps Group: www.phelpsgroup.com
■ Webfactory Ltd.: www.webfactory.ie
■ Y1R: www.yr.com
Answer the following questions for each:
a. What is the focus of the agency’s work (e.g., consumer, business-to-business, ethnic, general market)?
b. What are the scope and size of the agency’s business? Who makes up its clientele?
c. What is the agency’s mission statement or philosophy? How does that affect its client base?
d. What is the agency’s positioning (e.g., creative-driven, strategy [account]-driven, media-driven)?
e. What is your overall impression of the agency and its work?
Step by Step Answer:
Contemporary Advertising And Integrated Marketing Communications
ISBN: 9780073530031
13th Edition
Authors: William Arens, Michael Weigold, Christian Arens