What is “in-house” and is it right for me?
Will Ashton
Managing Director,
EMEA
19 June 2014
MARKETING MONEYBALL:
Why In-House Advertising
Changes Everything
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The rise of marketing automation
The Internet has fundamentally changed how businesses reach
consumers.
Marketing automation platforms have enabled businesses to
bring everything from outbound email marketing to inbound
content marketing in-house.
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Ad automation following marketing
Databases
CRM
Marketing
Automation
Advertising
Automation
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The normal pace at which businesses develop
and plot out learning and assignments will not
suffice. Speed, nimbleness, and imagination
are crucial.
Partha Iyengar
Vice President
Gartner
In-house: A growing trend
58%
of marketers currently
utilize in-house teams, a
16% increase from 2008
56%
52%
of marketers have moved
of marketers are assigning
Brandingdigital,Direct
established business from
social & mobile
an agency to in-house
functions in-house
40.9% 59.1%
Response
Association of National Advertisers
September 2013
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Programmatic on the rise
2/3
Almost two-thirds of marketers plan to double their
programmatic ad spend over the next 12 months
1/4
One-fourth of marketers plan to spend at least 80%
of their budgets programmatically
AdExchanger’s State of Programmatic Media Report
2014
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Why are companies taking advertising
in-house?
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Benefits of in-house advertising
Taking advertising in-house means freedom.
Freedom to react quickly to market shifts, spend more time on
strategy, and focus on the metrics that matter most.
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In-house can bring large cost savings
A company spending £1,000,000 annually on digital
advertising can save £200,000 by taking their
advertising in-house.
Through a 3rd Party
Annual digital advertising budget
Using Software In-House
£1,000,000
£1,000,000
Average managed services premium of
third party (30% of spend)
£300,000
£0
Cost of in house performance marketer
£0
£50,000
Annual software subscription (5%)
£0
£50,000
£700,000
£900,000
Annual budget for actual ad placements
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Apple is driven not by a desire for more
efficiency, but one to keep intellectual property
within its walls and retain more ownership
over its creative work.
Ann-Christine Diaz
Advertising Age
September 2013
In-house gives you greater control
In-house advertisers benefit from having total
control over how their products are marketed.
Ad Creation
Ad Testing
Campaign Optimization
Campaign Reporting
Marketing teams that control digital advertising inhouse across multiple channels benefit from crosschannel learnings and performance gains.
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Develop expertise in internal teams
Make the most of your in-house knowledge.
The vast majority of CMOs (94%)
plan to accelerate the introduction
of advanced (predictive) analytics
and mobile apps into their
business in the next 3-5 years.
94%
IBM Global C-Suite Study
2013
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Make changes on the fly
React quickly and autonomously.
71%
of marketers cite faster
turnaround time as an
advantage of the in-house
approach
Association of National Advertisers
September 2013
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Avoid unnecessary downtime
If a marketer runs a planned promotion over the
weekend and inventory runs out, campaign
adjustments must happen fast.
STOP
Stop the Campaign
Reroute to Another Sale
Danger of outsourcing
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It’s been very clear for quite some time that
agencies need to be much more agile and
faster to respond, and that’s what real-time
marketing has pushed us all toward.
Nancy Hill
President and CEO
4A’s
Know where your money is being spent
Keep your digital media budget in plain sight.
40%
of advertisers believe that a tool that
provides transparency is ideal for better
managing digital media spend
AudienceScience
November 2013
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In house isn’t always the right solution
A channel should be established before it is
brought in house
You need to be running enough volume to
justify hiring
Simpler, safer approaches may be better
executed by an agency
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How do I build my team?
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Get the right team. And keep them.
All strong teams need a strong leader
Specialism is preferable to generalism
Skills must be kept current
Buy/build the right tools
Empower your team
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Anatomy of an in-house marketer
In-house teams can consist of one or more skilled operators
focused on user acquisition and retention.
In-house marketers should be:
Highly numerate
Analytical, technical ad comfortable
with large data sets
Creative problem solvers
Strong communicators able to interact
with other internal teams
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Conclusion
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Benefits of in-house advertising
Marketers who leverage in-house ad automation software to
purchase media directly from publishers as opposed to through
agencies or ad networks can benefit from:
Launching far more
cost effective ad
campaigns
Unmatched in-house
knowledge of customers,
products, and market
environment
Ownership and
transparency of data
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If you bring that team in-house, you have an
opportunity to share cross-channel findings, be
agile, to do more with programmatic. That’s an
amazing opportunity to take advantage of.
Kathy O’Dowd
Programmatic Buying
Netflix
We believe
in the in-house advertiser.
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