On this episode, we sit down with Richard Exon, Co-Founder at Joint, to talk about why independent agencies are having a moment. We cover what independence actually unlocks—from faster decision-making to tighter collaboration—how talent and clients are rethinking what they want from agency partners, and why new tech is making it easier than ever to compete without the traditional scale of a network.
In recent decisions involving companies in different industries, NAD has sketched out a practical roadmap for how advertisers should (and shouldn’t) talk about AI. Here are four lessons from those cases.
Consumers already have more information than they know what to do with, so adding another marketing message rarely solves the problem.
AI as a tool versus agentic AI, looking at it like a Pixar movie, and embracing the culture shift that comes with it all.