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Should agencies get paid to pitch? Hear 4 industry leaders give their opinions

Posted on November 16, 2020November 17, 2020 by Terver

A few days ago, I had a heated conversation with a friend.

The argument? Pitch fees or more simply, fees that advertising or creative agencies desire that clients pay as compensation for time spent developing creative concepts in a bid to acquire a project or account.

That debate filled me with curiosity: why are pitch fees such a contentious topic? does every agency that pitches for an account deserve to be paid for their time and efforts, even when they are unsuccessful? Or do clients not get any real value from these unsuccessful pitches and there is no actual business case to justify paying pitch fees?

To get a better sense of the answers, I asked four industry leaders in marketing (split across the client’s side and the agency) about their thoughts on pitch fees:

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John Boyega and the burden of black leadership

On John Boyega and the burden of black leadership

Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 by Terver

Last week, news broke about John Boyega stepping down as brand ambassador for fragrance company, Joe Malone London, after the company reshot and recast an advert he conceived, directed and starred in with a Chinese influencer for use in Asian markets.

While Nigerian Twitter had a good laugh over how the Nigerian in Boyega jumped out in the concluding part of his statement with the sentence “I don’t have time for nonsense,” across the world, public sentiment was split.

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How “me-too” marketing could be killing your brand

“Me too!! Me too! I do that too!” – Why “Me-too” marketing could be killing your brand

Posted on August 17, 2020August 18, 2020 by Terver

As kids, we’re obsessed with fitting in. Our deepest fears are centred around being left out and we make behavioural, fashion and even lifestyle choices to gain the approval of our peers. This continues well into our teenage years no matter how many times we hear the words “just because your friends are doing it, does not mean you should too.”

And then as we approach adulthood, almost overnight, the script flips and the most backhanded compliment you can give an adult is implying that they’re not special.

I like to think that brands are like people. At inception brands are happy just for the chance to play in the category, fulfilling the same needs that the competition does. However, as they reach maturity, in an ideal world the best brands shed their “me-too” skins in pursuit of unique brand personas.

But a quick look across industries will show you that far too many brands are failing to grow out of “me-too” marketing. Colloquially termed ‘copycat’ marketing, the “me too” strategy is as big a problem for green horn brands as it is for even the most established brand names.

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Can an advert be so bad, it’s good?

Posted on August 10, 2020August 11, 2020 by Terver

Last week, there was a viral tweet about the “poor” quality of ads airing on Big Brother Nigeria. According to the poster, with all the money spent buying media placement, the brands would have done well to invest in better quality advertising.

As a marketing person with an advertising agency background, my first instinct was to strongly agree. As a conscious “anti-hearder”, my next instinct was to think “but an ad can be so bad that it becomes a cult classic and ends up actually being really good!”

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Marketing in Nigeria

What it means to be in Marketing in Nigeria

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 by Terver

To be in marketing in Nigeria is to surrender to an infinite loop of using the words “Not sales, marketing…”

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Outside the fog…the unsolicited blog

Posted on July 5, 2020December 7, 2020 by Terver

This year feels like it’s happening in a fog. If a fog had a virus in it and pockets of protests. There are many times where writing about marketing (even in context of the pandemic) has seemed like it’s besides the point. Perfectly irrelevant. But what other choices do I have? In my first year…

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