Bill Duggan
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Six Conclusions About In-House Agencies
Industry Insights June 2, 2023ANA’s Bill Duggan provides six key conclusions from a new report, The Continued Rise of the In-House Agency: 2023 Edition.
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Co-Chairs Named for ANA Advertising Financial Management Conference
Industry Insights February 2, 2023It’s become a bit of a tradition for ANA to announce the chair(s) for our annual Advertising Financial Management Conference and I am delighted to now make that announcement for 2023.
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How J&J's Social Responsibility Agenda Translates to Media Decisions
Industry Insights January 9, 2023Adam Benaroya is director, global media capabilities + operations at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health. He will be a speaker at the Association of National Advertisers Media Conference in February. ANA Group Executive Vice President Bill Duggan recently sat down with Benaroya for a pre-conference interview.
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Ford's Marla Skiko on Inclusion, Diversity, and Gaming
Industry Insights January 6, 2023Marla Skiko is Global Head of Consumer Connections, Marketing at the Ford Motor Company. She will be a speaker at the ANA Media Conference in February. Bill Duggan, Group Executive Vice President at ANA, sat down with Marla for this interview.
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The Procurement Opportunity: Media
Industry Insights September 7, 2022ANA 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.
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Trade Groups Collaborate on Guidelines to Help Buyers and Diverse Media Suppliers Strengthen Partnerships
Industry Insights August 18, 2022Over 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.
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The Procurement Opportunity: Process Improvements
Industry Insights August 17, 2022ANA 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.
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Procurement’s Definition of Value Must Be Maximum Growth and Impact
Industry Insights August 3, 2022Last 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.”
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Procurement 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Industry Insights July 29, 2022In 2010, the ANA published a landmark report, “Procurement: 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!
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Attention Metrics Are More Important Than Ever
Industry Insights June 30, 2022ANA just ran a virtual conference dedicated to attention metrics. I learned so much — and want to share that learning.
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'What They Said' at the ANA Advertising Financial Management Conference
Industry Insights May 5, 2022ANA 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).
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