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ID Comms Perspective

The latest news from ID Comms together with regular media industry insights and updates.

How We Renegotiate With Agencies

Coca-Cola’s Media Pivot: Lessons For CMOs From Pepsi’s Power Play

Mediapalooza: How CMOs Should Play The Media Agency Game

MediaPalooza 2027: Your Ultimate Media Pitch Brief

Media Operating Model Playbook for the Next MediaPalooza

ID Comms In the News: Media Palooza in MediaPost

ID Comms In the News: Navigating Mediapalooza

Media Palooza 2027: The Smart CMO’s Media Pitch Timeline

Media Palooza 2027: How Smart CMOs Will Win the Next Pitch Wave

Media Buying Briefing: Why Omnicom merged Mediahub and Hearts & Science (In The News)

Trust but Verify: Modern Media Agency Governance

CMO: "Can Agencies Be Trusted?"

WPP IN A CORNER: Adidas Leaves. Execs Jailed. What Now?

Publicis, Dentsu and the AI Red Ocean: What CMOs Must Know

Agency Pitches: Staffing, Fees & Commercial Proposals (Pitch Week Day 4)

Agency Pitches: RFIs, RFPs and Pitch Meetings (Pitch Week Day 3)

Agency Pitches: Preparation, Evaluation & Scorecards (Pitch Week Day Two)

Agency Pitches: Planning, Stakeholders & Communications (Pitch Week Day One)

ID Comms in the News: Pitch Week

ANA Media Transparency: 10 Years On, What Now?

Ranking: The 10 Reasons Pitches Go Wrong

10 Things Every Pitch Gets Wrong! | New ANA & 4A Pitch Principles

Agency Brief: The fallout from Publicis’s $2.2bn LiveRamp deal (In The News)

Outcome-Based Pricing vs Value: What CMOs Must Protect

3 Priorities for Marketing Procurement: The ANA AFM Post-Game Analysis

The 3 Big Themes for Marketing Procurement in 2026 | #MediaSnack LIVE

Brand Safety, Brand Care, and AI Media Bets

3 Ways to #GetGoodAtMedia in 2026

Agency Brief: Dept hires WPP Open exec Roy Armale (In The News)

Media Transparency After The Trade Desk Audits

Trade Desk Faces New Audit, This Time By Omnicom (In The News)

Farmers Insurance Puts US Creative and Media in Review (In The News)

Bet365 Wagers On VML (In The News)

Inside Accenture Song: Media Ambitions, New Leadership (In The News)

Publicis vs The Trade Desk: What CMOs Must Do Now

Media Buying Briefing: Is ad marketplace uncertainty the new normal? (In The News)

Stagwell, Omnicom and a World on Edge: What CMOs Must Do Now

What Makes a Winning Media Pitch (In The News)

4 tactics marketers are using to police media agency spend (In The News)

Which agency holdco will end 2026 in the best shape? (In The News)

Red Ocean Agencies & WPP Open: A CMO Survival Playbook

3 Things Marketers Must Do After the WPP Disclosures

Beyond the Black Box: Why the Information Asymmetry of 2023 is Today’s Confidence Crisis

Beyond the Audit: Why Media Governance is the Transparency Priority for 2026

Is Your Agency Future-Proof? Why 2026 Demands a New Standard of Capability

Media Pitch Consultant New York: Leading the Madison Avenue Search

A Confidence Gap: Why Media Leaders Are Guessing in a Data-Rich World

The Media Spend Benchmark: The Single Metric That Changes Everything

Agency Red Ocean: The Future of Agencies and the Race for Survival by 2030

The New Vibe: Cannes 2025 and the Evolving Landscape of Agency & AI

What’s Next for Marketing Procurement? Key Takeaways and Actions from the ANA Advertising and Financial Management Conference

The Media Merger Matrix: How Advertisers Can Turn Omnicom’s Disruption Into Opportunity

The High Cost of Cheap Media: Why Outdated Audits Could Be Holding Brands Back

Why ISBA’s Media Services Framework Deserves More Attention

Winning the Digital Pitch: How to Choose the Right Agency for a Future-Proof Partnership

To Pitch or Not to Pitch: Choosing Between a Media Agency Pitch or Renegotiation

Three Media Trends to Watch in 2025

What the Omnicom-IPG Merger Means for Advertisers

ID Comms in the News: Omnicom-IPG Merger

ID Comms in the News: Marketing Procurement Executives to Know

ID Comms in the News: How Brands Can Retain Their Data When Switching Agencies

ID Comms in the News: How to Protect Brands in Media Agency Contracts

ID Comms in the News: Lego Considers Bringing More Media In-House

ID Comms in the News: Agency rosters on the rise

ID Comms in the News: The Cookie is Still Over

ID Comms #JOMO Days

Media Buying is Changing, So Must Media Auditing

ID Comms Names First-Ever Head of Growth

The Universal Truth of Success in Marketing Procurement

International Women's Day: Celebrating and Empowering Women in Media

10 Tips For Building a Thriving Advertiser/Agency Partnership

Programmatic Control: Addressing Information Asymmetry

Programmatic Control: Unlocking $22 Billion

Pitch Perfect: The 4 Killer Pitch Questions

Pitch Perfect: Inspiring the Best Agencies to Compete

Pitch Perfect: The Feedback Flywheel

Pitch Perfect: A Race to the Top in Agency Selection

Quiz Time! How good ARE you at programmatic?

Pitching in a Programmatic World - Part 2

Life at ID Comms: Mark Andrews, Digital Lead

Pitching in a Programmatic World

What's inside the programmatic black box?

"Whoever holds the gold makes the rules."

Opening the Black Box of Programmatic

The (Actual) Future of Programmatic

ID Comms Ranked #1 UK Best Workplace™ for Women - Why Does it Matter?

ID Comms #JOMO Days

No Surprise, Programmatic is Still a Mess

"I wish all pitches were run like this."

Pitching to Perfection

ID Comms in the News: Constellation Brands Names Initiative for US Media

Where are the customers' yachts?

Cannes I skip it? Yes, you can!

Better Media Investments

Celebrate Better

Media Capabilities: Adapting to Change

6 Steps to Achieving Success in Media Investment Management

Media Capabilities: More Moving In-House

"We didn't trust them, they didn't trust us."

ID Comms in the News: Metro by T-Mobile Selects OKRP

Why Are Media Investments Becoming Less Effective?

Cheap is Good, but Good is Better

All Eyes Are on Marketing Procurement

ID Comms in the News: EasyJet Splits EMEA Duties

3 Priorities for Procurement in 2023

Who Wins the 'Better Media' Award for 2023?

Agencies Must Always Reflect Marketing and Procurement

ID Comms in the News: FanDuel Retains Horizon Next As Media Agency

Life at ID Comms: Victoria Potter, Global Director of Investment

The 5 Ways You Need to be More Ethical in Media

But how good ARE we at media?

'Get the job done. Take care of your people.' - My 4 Big Themes of the 2023 ANA Media Conference

ID Comms In the News: Why #MediaSnack Matters

Pressure on Margins = Pressure on Marketing

ID Comms Ranks #4 in Top 100 Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing

5 Paths to 'Better Media' - For the Brands We Serve

ID Comms In the News: On Truth Social Ads

"Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay."

For Collective Action, First Collective Understanding

Reminder: We Are All in Service of Brands

ID Comms In the News: Why the Industry Can't Pause Action on Cookies

ID Comms Third Annual #JOMO

ID Comms in the News: 2022 Global Media Training Report

Are Agency Pitches Broken?

How to Select a Media Agency Pitch Consultant

ID Comms In the News: Audible Global Pitch Appoints Wavemaker

How Do You Evaluate Agencies During A Pitch?

Preparing for Your Next Media Agency Pitch

How Will You Excite Agencies with Your Pitch?

Seven Reasons To Call A Media Agency Pitch

How Should You Manage Incumbent Agencies in a Pitch?

2022 Global Media Talent Report: Results and Analysis

ID Comms In the News: Burger King Announces Results of Media and Creative Pitches

What Drives Advantage in Programmatic?

Why Programmatic Media Management Needs a Playbook

The 4 Most Important Questions in Any Pitch

Every $ Accountable: The Dos and Don’ts of Programmatic KPI Setting

Can Programmatic Spend Be Audited?

Hands On Pitches

An Increasingly Privacy Centric World

Simplify Programmatic Complexity: How to Protect Your Investment

What Makes an Amazing Agency Pitch Brief?

What Happened to Pool Auditing?

What Makes the Best Agencies Compete for Your Pitch?

What Makes a Winning Client/Agency Relationship?

What is the Media Director's Priority for Q1?

Media Transparency: Trading Worries Now Eclipsed By Ecosystem Issues

What Are Fair Payment Terms?

What Does Media Procurement Do?

What Do Internal Media Councils Do?

Why Brands Can’t Be Silent On The Talent Crisis Facing Agencies

What Capabilities Do Media Departments Need?

What's Going On With Agency Talent?

Are Remote Agency Pitches Here To Stay?

5-Point Renegotiation Preparation Checklist

Bill Duggan, Global EVP, ANA: ANA Media Transparency Report Anniversary

Bob Liodice, CEO, ANA: ANA Media Transparency Report Anniversary

Ad Verification - DoubleVerify Latest Report

Keri Bruce, Partner, Reed Smith: ANA Media Transparency Report 5 Years On Longer version

Lou Paskalis, SVP, Bank of America: ANA Media Transparency Report 5 years on

Amy Armstrong, CEO, Intiative: ANA Media Transparency Report 5 Years On

Why A Media Operating Model Is One Of The Smartest Investments For Growth

Marla Skiko, US & Global Head of Media, Ford Motor Company: ANA Media Transparency Report 5 Years On

ID Comms Expands With New Global Assurance Director

Industry Leaders Reflect On Progress At The Fifth Year Anniversary Of ANA’s Watershed Media Transparency Report

Is Mexico The New Model For Global Media Transparency Regulations?

Media Pitch: Never Buy An Agency Off The Shelf

Media For Growth: Where Do I Start?

NatWest Group Moves £27m Media Account To Initiative

Pool Auditing – What Is It And Should I Be Doing It?

Join ID Comms and The Hershey Company at the ANA Financial Management Conference 2021

Media In-Housing Is Back

Hershey Sends US Media Duties For Confectionery Brands to Horizon

Facebook Puts $750 Million Global Media Account Up For Review

Too Flat Or Too Tall?

How Marketers Can Exploit The Past Year's Turbulence To Optimal Advantage

Online Privacy & The Death Of Third Party Cookies

"Show me the money, ROBOT!"

"I Plan Media Better Than Human" Says Robot

The Race To The Bottom Is Over. So Who Won?

Race To The Bottom On Media Pricing Is Over At Most Advertisers

Media Agency Contracts That Last

Industry Preview: What Do Brands Really Want?

The Media Director’s 5-point Checklist For 2021

"Tone Deaf"...Why Nobody Is Going To Cannes

NatWest Reviews UK Media Business

WPP, Publicis, Omnicom, IPG, Dentsu - Change Is Coming

T-Mobile Awards Initiative Its $2 Billion U.S. Media Business

Is A New Golden Age Of Media Auditing About To Dawn?

Hacking The Matrix Of MarTech

Ad Fraud, A Thorn In The Side Of Digital Advertising.

The good client in 2021

ISBA and ID Comms Launch New Guide to Media Agency Management

Media Technology Now Being Used Effectively by a Quarter of Brands, ID Comms Research

Hershey Launches US Media Agency Review

The Pandemic Has Pushed Old-Fashioned Media Auditing To The Limit

The Next Generation Audit

ID Comms Acquires Media Audit Specialist PJL Media to Boost Global Assurance Service

ID Comms sponsors ANA's Advertising Financial Management conference

Sir Martin Sorrell LIVE on #MediaSnack

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Certified Great Place to Work

BWP Women

Ranked #1 in Top 100 Best Workplaces ™ for Women

BWP Wellness

Ranked #4 in Top 100 Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing

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Ranked #1 Best Place to Work by Campaign Magazine

AdExchanger Best Programmatic Consultant 2021

AdExchanger Best Programmatic Consultant 2021