Atomic 212 wins tender to become Spirit of Tasmania’s media agency
Following a competitive tender process, Atomic 212 has been named as the media agency for Spirit of Tasmania, an account formerly held by Wavemaker.
From 1 July, the agency will be responsible for media strategy, planning and booking across all channels for three years.
Man the lifeboats.
In decent sea … I believe.
Is the Titanic one of theirs?
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Any port in a storm.
Its a good come back from losing Destination NSW last year. Better suited to the smaller, less strategic accounts.
More exciting wins to come on soon I’m sure.
Well done guys.
I guess focusing less on digital and outsourcing thinking and strategy to the chapel gives atomic more time to focus on their heartland – above the line media deals that are financially beneficial to their bottom line.
The outsourcing model definitely works and we can see evidence of this in how easy it has been for the traditional management consultancies to enter the arena and take the high intellectual ground from many agencies.
It’s more of a transactional relationship with media agencies these days but the value equation needs consideration by clients. For example the typical client via the agency buyer receives the 10% agency/media owner discount. So it makes sense to use the agency for this part, right? But actually no in most cases as the agency then in turn does deals with the media owners where the media not only give the agency the discount for clients but also give the agency further discounts which are not passed to the client as a reward or incentive for buying from them. Outcome: it costs the client circa 20-50% to save 10% so a significant loss.
The management consultancies can help here and will leverage this to ultimately shut down media agencies. Why? Because you are never going to see PWC, E&Y or Deloitte discretely keeping money from deals clients don’t know about.
If the consultancies were smart they wouldn’t highlight this practise to clients but instead just return the full discounts and naturally appear to be the much better buyers.
So in the end honesty wins I guess.
It would be great to see a Mumbrella evaluation of strategic thinking across agencies and consultancies at some stage.
“Why? Because you are never going to see PWC, E&Y or Deloitte discretely keeping money from deals clients don’t know about.”
Are you sure about that?