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Who’s Really Bidding? When One Holdco Fills Every Seat at the Table.
Advertising agencies spent decades refusing to represent competing clients, enforced by “paper walls” between teams. Holding-company consolidation has steadily eroded that norm — and in 2026, WPP Production reportedly instructed staff to steer clients toward filling all three seats in a “competitive” bid with WPP’s own units. When every bid reports to the same Big…
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How “Fixed Price” Projects Cost You More Over Time.
A blended rate covers a mix of skill levels and locations, not a fixed team. Holdcos often pitch senior talent to win the account, then quietly shift delivery to lower-cost resources — a documented pricing-industry pattern that lets agency margin climb well past what was modeled at signing, with no contract term broken. The number…
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Everyone Rushes the RFP — and the Real Cost
Compressing an agency search to hit a deadline tends to cut the same three things: scope definition, reference diligence, and commercial-term benchmarking. None of the gaps show up on selection day — they surface as scope disputes and misaligned incentives roughly twelve to eighteen months in, forcing many clients back into a second, costly review…
Who’s Really Bidding? When One Holdco Fills Every Seat at the Table.
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