Event in Review | Ad Agency Contracts: Key Negotiating Points, Leverage, and Getting to Win-Win

Advertising agency agreements require careful balancing of legal risk, commercial realities, and long-term working relationships. In a recent webinar, Venable partner Barry M. Benjamin discussed how brands and agencies can structure agreements that support collaboration while addressing the unique issues that arise in creative services, media buying, influencer marketing, and promotions administration.

Whether you are negotiating an agency agreement for creative services, media buying, influencer marketing, or promotions administration, each area has particular concerns. Because difficult initial contract negotiations may … Read the rest

GETTING REAL ABOUT THE FISCAL CHALLENGES AHEAD

The source for this is a website called U.S. Debtclock.org. It allows you to look at the picture of America’s economy in 1980 and today. To add drama, it does it much as the other debt clocks you can find on line where the debt we owe as a nation expands by millions every hour. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the data but as I analyzed it with other statistics I have seen it “feels” accurate.

We take … Read the rest