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Some advertising agencies and their marketing clients have traditionally invested in long term relationships that were greatly valued. Recent economic imperatives have prompted many clients to break such long term bonds and re-define relationships. For example, in the auto industry, some client-agency relationships forged over one hundred years ago have recently been terminated during the search for new agency partners and creativity. Consumer packaged goods marketers like Proctor and Gamble and Unilever also tend to remain with their full service agency of record partners, even when switching account teams and resources globally.
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Sasser, S., Koslow, S. (2012). When Bad is Good: The Creative Conundrum of Agency- Client Relationships. In: Eisend, M., Langner, T., Okazaki, S. (eds) Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. III). European Advertising Academy. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-4291-3_28
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