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How to Find the Right Production Capability
August 01, 2022
2022 has been the perfect storm for marketers. There’s been a collision of new expectations and requirements within the industry. Inflation is reducing available budgets. Economic pressures are making markets nervous. Sustainability is top-of-mind in every boardroom. And frugality has moved up the …
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Measuring the Value of Creative Operations
October 04, 2021
Over half of creative leaders are now measuring the value of creative operations. Metrics are no longer a nice-to-have for the creative team of 2021, they are a must.
Every year for the past four years, Screendragon has surveyed creative leaders to examine the current state of creative operations. …
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Producing Work at the Highest Level—Is Your In-House Agency Ready?
August 05, 2019
Most brand teams are eager to create tier-one content. And, as top creatives from the best agencies move to the corporate side, brands with in-house agencies now have the strategic and creative chops to successfully craft this type of work.
What about actually producing it? All levels of …
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Getting It Right: Process & Positioning
June 03, 2019
Navigating the operational challenges inherent in running an internal agency can feel like an endless series of twists and turns. While there are ways to overlook certain obstacles for the sake of getting the job done, there are also ways to enhance your team’s problem-solving capabilities to …
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Buy-In on Briefs & Briefings
April 08, 2019
Crafting a new creative brief goes hand in hand with crafting a new creative campaign. Doing a good job on one increases your chance of doing a great job on the other. Yet, some in-house agency teams are resistant to leveraging creative briefs to full effect. Why?
This month’s IHAF webinar is all …
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A Must-Have for Producing Great Content
February 18, 2019
After attending the 2018 IHAF Conference & Awards Show, we noticed that all of the keynote speakers had one thing in common—good work. Each presented their own game-changing video content and we loved it. Great content is what we all aspire to create, so, why is it so rare?
Sure, you’ve got a good …
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Internal Agencies Are On the Rise
September 10, 2018
IHAF recently revealed top trends and business challenges among in-house agencies in its 2018 benchmarking study, fielded in partnership with Forrester Research and featured in the Wall Street Journal. The report details the functional competencies, service offerings, project composition and …
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How Brand’s Got Your Back
February 12, 2018
One of the leading challenges internal and external agencies face is effectively influencing clients. No matter how big your client’s line of business or product set might be, getting them to adhere to corporate brand standards is essential—though not all clients understand why.
In this week’s …
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The Importance of “Universal Levels of Creativity” in Production
December 18, 2017
Creative teams receive briefs from a variety of sources every day, and each carries an assumption that it will quickly deliver the desired outcome that is intended by the requestor. While this sounds simple in principle, it is rarely possible in practice.
The Purpose of a Brief. The writer and/or …
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Resource Management: The Ultimate Balancing Act
October 16, 2017
The IHAF team recently partnered with Workfront to conduct a resource management survey for the in-house community. Over 100 unique companies responded, providing insight into their scheduling and planning habits as well as how they forecast, resource, and track their work.
The study includes …
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