Creative Agencies are Failing to Deliver People-Based Marketing The traditional agency model has encouraged the separation of Creative and Media - different processes, different cultures, different P&Ls. And over the years, they’ve never really shown much love for each other. Creative has often looked at Media as the boring afterthought of advertising, and Media has usually seen Creative as the spoiled child who always needs to get their own way. Over the past decade, Media agencies and their business models have been blown up by digital marketing complexity, auction pricing, technology and powerful new arrivals such as Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, Creative agencies have hardly changed at all. That was Don Draper’s suicide.
