With more project-based work arrangements, agencies are now doing more “serial projects” for brands essentially doing AOR work without the retainer.
January 03, 2020

In the name of efficiency, companies have reduced agency-of-record assignments in favor of project-based work in recent years. But the pendulum is swinging back somewhat. The result: An arrangement that lands somewhere in the middle, known as "serial project assignments." Read more below.

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