Bill Duggan

ORLANDO—It started with “low-hanging fruit” like collateral and point-of-sale materials and package design then progressed to social media. Now more marketers are expected to bring some of their media activity in-house—one reason being to protect their first-party data, according to Bill Duggan of the Association of National Advertisers. “Currently, there’s much more creative done in […]

It is now more than a year since the Association of National Advertisers’s media transparency report helped blow the lid off practices in which US advertising agencies were accused of keeping up to 20% of clients’ media budgets for themselves after engaging in “pervasive” kick-backs and rebates. That report kickstarted a cacophony of “transparency” talk, […]