procurement

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A (Pro)cure For What Ails You Agencies and brand marketers are split over their view of procurement. Which is to say, marketers collaborate well with their own procurement departments while agencies begrudge the procurement folks.  At least, that’s the message in a new ANA […]

If marketing is the creative visionary of a big brand, procurement is its practical, strict counterpart. Marketing wants to spend big on the big idea, and procurement wants to save as much as possible. The two often can’t see eye to eye – and marketing budgets suffer. At the ANA’s Financial Management Conference in Boca […]

The relationship between procurement and marketing has always been dicey, but things may be turning a corner. New survey results previewed Wednesday at Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Advertising Financial Management Conference show that while procurement and marketing professionals may not always see eye to eye, both parties are starting to collaborate better to achieve more […]

David Bell, the chairman emeritus for Interpublic Group, offered his take on some barriers to growth in digital advertising today at Aol’s Thought Leadership Summit on programmatic advertising. Number one on his hit list was the clutter of ad tech startups. He also took aim at the power wielded by procurement officers and bashed the ad industry for […]