IPA director General Paul Bainsfair on why the collateral damage of left-brain thinking will damage advertising’s long-term health and how advertisers and agencies must safeguard the future as we head into 2020 In Paul Feldwick’s entertaining and informative book on ...
Read More »IPA Bellwether survey shows UK ad budgets up with further rises expected from 2014 onwards
The Q4 2013 IPA Bellwether Report shows a strong upwards revision to marketing budgets, marking the fifth quarter of consecutive growth and the second-highest rate of growth in the survey’s history. The report, which has been conducted on a quarterly ...
Read More »IPA Bellwether survey paints rosy ad picture for UK
Boom times are back in UK advertising and marketing according to the latest IPA Bellwether survey carried out by Markit. The report, which has been conducted on a quarterly basis since Q1 2000, revealed a net balance of 12.3 per ...
Read More »IPA slams government procurement e-auctions
The UK IPA Council, which consists of representatives of leading creative and media agencies, has passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the Government Procurement Service, which has replaced the COI as the body that selects agencies for over ...
Read More »New IPA Bellwether survey paints picture of higher adspend in an improving UK economy
As we suspected, the IK IPA’s new Bellwether survey of marketing expenditure shows that marketing budgets in the UK were revised sharply higher during the second quarter of 2013 as companies reacted to improving economic conditions by supporting sales efforts ...
Read More »IPA’s UK Bellwether Survey: the good news is that things aren’t quite as bad as they were
Ed Balls cals it ‘flatlining,’ others say the UK economy is bumping along the bottom – and clearly advertising is not immune from this stasis. That’s the message from the IPA’s latest quarterly Bellwether survey of the UK industry anyway. ...
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