Overcoming inertia: how recessionary chaos and disruptive technology are fueling an evolution in advertising agency organization and compensation models

This professional report outlines and assesses of various advertising agency organization and compensation models. It provides an analysis of how the disruptive technology of the Internet has changed consumer media habits and caused a paradigm shift in the marketing communications landscape and how the current economic recession has affected agencies. The organization models addressed include the traditional silo model and the roster model. Compensation models include labor-based fee models, commission-based models, and several new models that the industry has recently embraced.