28 Nov MEDIA COMPANIES HAVE HAD THE DNA TO BE AN AGENCY FOR DECADES, WE JUST DIDN’T KNOW IT
media companies as agencies: Almost everything a brand needs to create campaigns exists in media companies in spades
What makes a successful agency?
• Knowledge of the desired audience
• Knowledge of the brand’s customers
• Access to, and a relationship with, the desired audience
• An audience database second to none
• Exquisite storytellers.
• Expert videographers
• Media tech expertise
• Proven, sophisticated design capabilities
• Multimedia, multi-platform, multi-channel expertise
• Proven marketing expertise
• A nuanced understanding of how to build sophisticated multi-platform campaigns
Does that list sound like a media company to you?
Sure sounds like a media company to me.
The expertise inside media companies is looking like an agency to more and more brands around the world. Many have given up trying to create branded content and media campaigns on their own, or even with traditional legacy agencies.
As a result, many media companies that have created in-house agencies are seeing results that have come to represent from five to 60% of total revenue! Consider this example: