Bill Duggan

ANA recently released the report, “Procurement 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The work measures the perception of marketing procurement among three constituents: procurement, marketing, and agencies.

Over the past six months I've had the pleasure of working with industry colleagues on guidelines to help buyers (agencies and marketers) and diverse media suppliers improve their ways of working together.

ANA recently released the report, “Procurement 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The work measures the perception of marketing procurement among three constituents: procurement, marketing, and agencies. While procurement has a positive perception of itself, agencies generally do not. Marketing, meanwhile, has a better perception than agencies yet it’s clear they believe there is much room for procurement’s improvement.

Last week ANA released the report, “Procurement 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” One of the most fundamental debates about procurement is their definition of value. Is it lowest cost or maximum growth and impact? In the new report we asked procurement, as well as marketing and agencies, “Please indicate where on the continuum below the marketing procurement group stands in terms of its definition of what constitutes value.”

In 2010, the ANA published a landmark report, “Procure¬ment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The work took the pulse of the industry on the state of marketing procurement at that time, and measured practices and perceptions among professionals in three functional areas: procurement/sourcing, marketing/marketing services, and agencies. In 2022, we repeated and built upon that prior research to track progress (or lack thereof). Results were just released!

ANA just ran a virtual conference dedicated to attention metrics. I learned so much — and want to share that learning.

ANA just wrapped up our Advertising Financial Management Conference, our annual event for client-side procurement, agency finance, and other interested parties. The following provides great quotes and insights from some of the conference speakers (in order of appearance).

ANA just concluded our 2022 In-House Conference. The following provides great quotes and insights from some of the conference speakers (in order of appearance).

ANA just concluded our 2022 Media Conference presented by our good friends at the A+E Networks. The following provides great quotes and insights from some of the conference speakers (in order of appearance).

Former ANA Chairman Tony Pace died earlier this week in a snowmobiling accident in Montana.

It’s an absolute landslide! Diversity has been chosen by ANA members as the ANA 2021 Marketing Word of the Year.