There are many reasons why it could be a sensible financial decision in a business to allow for an agency to take care of all aspect of an advertising campaign. For a start good advertising agencies generally come equipped with a huge arsenal of professional video recording, photography, studio and printing equipment, along with a lot of professional software to accompany it. These are things that many companies won’t have in-house and therefore would be very expensive to buy/rent these types of equipment individually. When it comes to expenses it could also be viable to use an advertising agency when a company is on a strict budget, as an agency will generally be very good at planning the campaign to its maximum potential with its given budget.
An advertising agency will also have experience, knowledge and expertise in all aspects of the marketing campaign phases, these being planning, delivering and monitoring the campaign. This of course is impossible for a company to have if they have never conducted a marketing campaign before. Due to this experience is it also very likely that all media produced by the advertising campaign will look very slick, professional and high quality.
The disadvantages of using a professional advertising agency opposed to using your own in-house marketing department
Sadly it may not always be a sensible idea to employ an agency to conduct all processes of a company’s marketing campaign. An example of why this may be is sometimes it could be hard to get an agency to appreciate certain themes a company wishes to express in the campaign, for example the values of said company. The agency also may not be knowledgeable of the strengths of the product they are making the campaign for, and may miss essential features of it from the campaign by mistake.
While a marketing campaign affects the company it belongs to for the long