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“The Price Isn’t Right”: New IPA report urges agencies to rethink commercial models

Stuart Mitchell

Agencies must ensure that the prices they charge accurately reflect the value they deliver. This is the central message of the IPA’s latest report, The Price Isn’t Right, to be unveiled at the flagship IPA Business Growth Conference recently that calls for a fundamental reassessment of, and proposes a roadmap for, how agencies structure their commercial models and client partnerships. Published five years after the IPA’s seminal study The Price of Success, this new report, produced in partnership with Creative Salon and based on 63 qualitative interviews with creative and…

Saskia Konynenburg appointed Interim Chief Executive of NCVO

Stuart Mitchell

NCVO has confirmed the appointment of Saskia Konynenburg as Interim Chief Executive from 1 August 2025. New leadership team in place to guide NCVO through transition NCVO has announced that Saskia Konynenburg will take on the role of Interim Chief Executive from 1 August. She steps up from her current position as Executive Director of Voice and Impact, where she has led NCVO’s communications, influencing and insight work. Her appointment follows the announcement that current CEO Sarah Elliott will leave NCVO this summer to become CEO of Shelter. The formal,…

Farmer confidence battered by climate change – new research

Stuart Mitchell

New research into farmer’s attitudes to climate change and extreme weather reveals the extent to which farmers have been affected by recent extreme weather events, many made worse by climate change. In the past five years, 86% of farmers have been hit by extreme rainfall, 78% by drought and over a half by the impacts of heatwaves. Only 2% have not experienced extreme weather in some form. The research follows several recent attribution studies that draw a clear causal link between the increasingly extreme weather affecting farmers and climate change. The…

UKGBC launches the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s most vulnerable places to overheating, flooding, and other climate risks are revealed in our major new report, the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, which was launched on June 26th, 2025. It warns that climate change means some school can expect ‘heatwave’ like temperatures for 10 weeks a year, while flooding could make Peterborough uninhabitable this century. The UK Climate Resilience Roadmap details, for the first time, how the UK’s built environment, including homes, schools, offices, hospitals parks and infrastructure, are increasingly vulnerable to five climate hazards – overheating, flooding,…

Managing Creator Relationships Identified as Top Concern for UK Marketers When Scaling Creator Campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

With the global creator marketing industry projected to grow in value by 36% this year, new independent research by global, creator-first social agency, Billion Dollar Boy, reveals that more than half (52%) of UK marketers are now investing in excess of £765K ($1M) annually in creator marketing.  As investment scales up, the research reveals marketers’ preferred agency partners to navigate a more complex and competitive creator economy, while also revealing the most common challenges they face, which threaten to limit the channel’s full creative and commercial potential. Marketers Invest in…