Launch of the Kingston Smith Annual Survey 2017

Now in its 27th year, Kingston Smith’s annual survey on the financial performance of marketing services companies is regarded as the most comprehensive and authoritative financial survey of the UK’s marketing services industry.

We would like to invite you to the launch, being held on Tuesday 28 November.

The seminar will cover the key findings of the survey, analysing identified KPIs and trends within the advertising, digital, branding and design, PR, media buying and marketing and sales promotion sectors. Such areas include profit ratios, productivity ratios and staff costs and numbers, giving you unparalleled benchmarking insights.

In addition, while good profit margins become even harder to achieve, our panel will discuss the pressures that the media and marcomms industry find themselves under. The pace of change within machine learning and Artificial Intelligence keeps agencies continually on their toes bringing new challenges as well as opportunities. The big consultancies continue to make acquisitions in the creative space threatening to finally start eating our lunch. At the same time, consumer attitudes towards advertising continue to shift and become ever more cynical. These are just a few of the pressures that the industry continues to deal with that our panellists will discuss.

Event details

Date Tuesday 28 November 2017

Timing
5.30pm – Registration

6.00pm – Introduction – Esther Carder
Presentation of survey results – Ian Graham
Panel discussion, chaired by Esther Carder, with panel members including: 

Ed Bussey, Founder & CEO, Quill
David Golding, Founder & Group Chief Strategy Officer, adam&eveDDB

Natalie Graeme, Founder, Uncommon Creative Studio
Laura Liram, Partner, Bow & Arrow

Jing Han Ong, Commercial Director, CrowdEmotion
8.00pm – Canapés and refreshments

Venue – 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE

Cost
For Kingston Smith clients:
The survey and seminar are FREE to all Kingston Smith clients (booking required)
RSVP: https://www.kingstonsmith.co.uk/annual-survey-2017-booking-form/

For non-clients:
Seminar attendance alone – £96 per person
Survey £324. Each survey purchase will come with two complimentary tickets to the launch seminar
RSVP: https://www.kingstonsmith.co.uk/annual-survey-2017-payment-form/

BIMA member discount: please email hgill@kingstonsmith.co.uk.