Marketing Organization and Agency Management
Structure and organization represent some of the most important decisions senior marketers can make when looking to optimize the overall marketing function.
The ANA has partnered with industry leaders in ongoing research to define the future of organizing for an optimal business performance that improves budget priorities, roles and responsibilities, agencies, and both in-house and external support functions.
The Challenge
Creating a marketing structure to deliver a constant level of quality while leveraging internal brand ambassadors and allowing for an adaptive agency management program can be tricky and foster inefficient trial-and-error processes to strike the right balance.
The ANA’s Response
Our research reports, including last year's "Payment Terms: Current Practices for Marketing Services," can give you and your brands the information — and the leg up — needed to organize effectively.
Latest Content
Articles, insights, research, and more to advance your marketing and advertising.
Webinar Rewinds
Considering Gen AI in Agency Partnerships, Fees, and Contracts: Application and Best Practice
AI is transforming how marketers drive creative effectiveness. In this webinar, learn about the Creative Effectiveness Flywheel — a new approach that puts AI at the center of a dynamic process, enabling agile teams to create, analyze, and optimize content with greater speed and effectiveness.
Partner Content
Nurturing Culture in In-House Agencies
Effective in-house leaders create an environment where trust, transparency, and open communication are the norm. At the same time, leaders must stay on top of issues such as burnout, which can drain creativity and cause disengagement. Encouraging balance and introducing fresh perspectives helps keep the energy high, ensuring the agency remains a creative powerhouse.
Event Recaps
Level Up the Planning Process with Marketing Operations at the Center
In a world where many marketing departments merely reuse last year’s plan, marketing operations teams can bring a fresh perspective. From consistent templates to streamlined communications, data insights and clear governance strategies, marketing operations teams can uplift the entire organization.
Featured Events
National, regional, and online events to help you learn and grow throughout the year.
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Training
Equipping marketers with the skills they need to advance their careers, their brands, and the industry.
- Aligning Marketing to Sales (Full Day)
- Aligning Marketing to Sales (Half Day)
- Aligning Marketing to Sales (Virtual Open Enrollment)
1-Day Conferences
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Webinars
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Committees
Bringing marketers together to learn from each other and debate new approaches and solutions to industry hurdles.
A benefit of ANA membership, committee meetings feature a mix of member case studies, perspective from outside experts, and benchmarking/best-practice sharing that drive thought leadership on key industry issues. Each ANA committee meets three to four times per year and can be attended in person or remotely. Depending on the committee, 10 to 30 participants may attend — big enough for diversity of opinion, yet small enough for more intimate exchanges.
- In-House Agency Committee
- Advertising Financial Management Committee
- Agency Relations Committee
- Email Excellence Center Committee
- Marketing Operations and Transformation Forum
- Production Management Committee