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Media Agency Performance Evaluation Best Practices

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These checklists, provided by Richard Benyon, partner, Decideware, cover best practices for evaluating media agencies and handling evaluation findings.

Best Practices for Media Agency Evaluations:

  • Fully engage your agency. Consider holding 360° evaluations.
  • Limit the number of questions. Fifteen to 25 questions is a good guide.
  • Involve multiple evaluators in order to get a balanced view of the relationship.
  • Keep the evaluation window as short as possible (e.g. 3 weeks) and provide reports to your stakeholders quickly.
  • Hold a mandatory client/agency meeting that includes formalized action planning once the evaluation is complete.

Best Practices for Analyzing Evaluation Findings:

  • Use the scores to identify issues. Read the comments to understand why issues have occurred and what to do about them.
  • Look at the individual evaluators' feedback. Sometimes the aggregate score can hide deeper problems.
  • Benchmark and trend agency performance. Compare one agency's score to relationships with other agencies of the same type
  • Look at whether or not an agency has improved since the last evaluation.
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"Media Agency Performance Evaluation Best Practices." Reprinted with Permission from Richard Benyon, Partner, Decideware. ANA Marketing Toolkits.

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