PODCAST: What are holding companies looking for when they acquire? Plus Solving attribution using createch with Kevin Wassong
Kevin Wassong is a digital marketing guy from since it began in the early 90s. He’s worked at c-suite and board level at the likes of Wunderman Thompson, WPP, WPP.com, iAB, etc, etc. Kevin takes us through some insightful holding company acquisitions, giving us...
PODCAST: How to exit your marketing agency for the best possible price!
Here’s the latest M&A/Q&A episode with Andrew Friedlander of The Sports Presentation Company.Andy is the founder of one of the UK’s best sporting events agencies an agency he built off the back of his TV and events presenting career.The Sports...
PODCAST: How to build an agency using M&A and survive the business rollercoaster with Anton Jerges
Anton Jerges, MD of We Are Collider, has been in the experiential agency and events industry for 30 years, starting out in business development and trade shows before founding his first agency in 1997. He then moved on to his second agency, We Are Collider in 2003...
PODCAST: How to acquire multiple agencies and have multiple exits with Chris Parnham
Today we have Chris Parham, MD of Absolute Corporate Events, Director of Absolute Digital Communications and President of Site Great Britain. Chris’s career in events agencies stretches out over 25 years where he began his career as head of global events for...
Who Founded the World’s Largest Agencies?
Who founded the world’s largest agencies? These massive holding companies often seem like a big grey slab of corporate goo, but they were all founded by someone and not surprisingly many are the result of mergers and acquisitions! Here they are listed in order...
The types of M&A buyers and exits an agency owner might have
☠️ Here’s an exhaustive list of the types of buyers or exits you could have: 🧙♂️ Strategic buyers These are buyers in your industry who want to grow through acqusition. My favourite kind of buyer. There’s two flavours these guys come in. The type that wants your...
🪜 3 steps to fixing any agency!
We see these issues all the time with agencies we’re looking to buy for clients. If you can solve these issues with your agency first then you can really start to focus on the bigger picture and building a much larger agency business or group of companies. Do...
Podcast: How to close M&A deals and build a $100m agency business
