• Top-Notch Partners for Your Top-Performing Team

    February 06, 2023

    • by Olivia Brown, IHAF

    Just because you’re in house, doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. In fact, many of today’s most successful internal agencies collaborate with external providers to support their initiatives. By working as an extension of your team, trusted partners and suppliers can add immense value to your in- …

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  • How Mature is Your Marketing Work Management Model?

    January 23, 2023

    What’s the status of your in-house agency tech stack? How are your people, processes, and technologies performing? How intentional and customer-focused is your organization?

    Whether you’re mired in manual minutia, contemplating Adobe Workfront, or have a work management solution in place, a long- …

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  • Escape the Commodity Trap—Become a Trusted Advisor

    December 07, 2022

    When the marketing organization and key stakeholders view the in-house agency as task-oriented order takers, it creates the commodity trap–a cycle where uninspired assignments create uninspired results. When people are treated like a commodity, they often begin to think like one. As a result, in- …

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  • The Latest Trends in Teams & Talent

    November 28, 2022

    If you’re a fan of Broadway, you know about the saga surrounding the recent revival of Funny Girl. The casting controversy reads like a tale of aptitude and ambition, happiness and heartache. A similar story plays out in IHAF’s latest research—all about people and the prospects they face with three …

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  • Getting to Yes: One Team’s Success Story

    November 14, 2022

    • by Bonny Block and Ray Samuels, Wripple

    Ah, 2020…a year to remember. Most of us endured significant changes in how we work. But what if your business became almost unrecognizable? More than almost any other, the restaurant industry faced a moment where quick thinking and innovation were the only paths to survival. 

    IHAF supplier member, …

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  • Great Briefs Lead to Great Work

    October 24, 2022

    A solid creative brief is essential for an agency to deliver excellent work. Whether your campaign connects with the audience and drives results or misses the mark, largely depends on the creative brief. At The Studio, which is the in-house agency for the brands of Anywhere Real Estate, we’ve found …

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  • If Your WX Is Broken, Your CX Is Too

    October 17, 2022

    For many in-house agencies, the intent is to support the brand’s goal. This means, doing everything possible to enable personalized customer experiences at scale. To do this, teams count on applications like Adobe Workfront® and others to help them organize their work and bring it to market most …

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  • United and Uncensored

    September 26, 2022

    • by Olivia Brown, IHAF

    We’re eight weeks from getting down to the nitty-gritty of what’s really going on in house—embracing what unites us by sharing our common experiences at the 2022 IHAF Conference & Awards. This year’s event is all about keeping it real; that’s what makes it UNCENSORED. Here’s what you can expect …

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  • In-House Agencies Tell It Like It Is

    August 22, 2022

    • by IHAF Staff

    Despite the popularity, success and even acceptance of the in-house model, there’s still a lot that these teams grapple with every single day. There’s also no one-size-fits-all when it comes to in-house agencies—they’re as varied as the industries and brands they serve.

    Our 2021 year-end member …

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  • Trends in Offshore Creative Production

    August 15, 2022

    The so-called Great Resignation and current talent shortages across the US and Europe have accelerated changes already underway industrywide as brands look toward new models of creative production.

    We Are Amnet’s 2022 Benchmark Report for Offshore Creative Production sheds intriguing light on the …

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