Starcom pivots to become ‘return on experience’ agency, appoints national planning director and head of measurement
Starcom has made three new appointments – national planning director, national head of measurement and national commercial partnerships director – as it attempts to position itself as the ‘Return on Experience’ agency.
Earlier this year, Starcom repositioned its Media Futures report – which had traditionally been a forecasting report – with the agency telling marketers they are rating themselves twice as highly as consumers rate them when it comes to delivering great customer experiences.
The findings also said “very positive” brand experiences have 10 times the impact on consumer brand choice.

… to hearing about the value that media planners can add to the design of experiences that matter to customers and have the potential to drive advocacy and long term brand value – and the business model that will underpin that within Starcom. Seems like a job for insights specialists and service designers.
Literally couldn’t agree more.
Just another shamelessly transparent example of media agency wanton buzz-trend appropriation and bandwagon-jumping.
I offered up chocolate bars to anyone in our agency who could tell me what Starcom were actually going to do now…