Accenture Marketing Sciences: Media Auditing & Media Agency Selection

Accenture Marketing Sciences is the leading media auditor in the world. We measure and optimize media using real data from extensive client pools and then provide value added insight into how companies can significantly improve their performance across both traditional and digital channels. We have superior people and capabilities as follows:

• World's largest pools. Accenture Marketing Sciences has the most extensive media client roster in the world providing weighted cost and quality benchmarking that cannot be matched anywhere else. Total media under review is three times larger than our nearest competitor providing deeper and sharper comparisons to real world performance metrics.
  
  
• Focus on insight. Access to the most robust data pools provides our consultants and clients with the most robust foundation available to develop higher value insights around media strategy, objectives and context.
  
  
• Deep local knowledge. Accenture Marketing Sciences has teams of specialists in media, marketing, statistics and strategy in 18 of the world's largest media markets.
  
  
• Digital excellence. We have significant expertise pooling online advertising, paid search and search engine optimization and benchmarking websites and user experience.
  
  
• Simple clarity. Unique use of enhanced IT provides simple online point and click access to all current and historical audits by segment, target and country. No other company can supply streamlined, Web-enabled results from a single consolidated data base.
  
  
• Superior benchmarking tools. Even in countries with small pools clients now benefit from exceptional and unique software that enables the delivery of robust and insightful results.

In short, Accenture Marketing Sciences Media auditing helps clients achieve the highest possible efficiency and effectiveness within the designated strategic and competitive landscape.

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Accenture Marketing Sciences collaborates with some of the world's largest companies, including Unilever, Wal-Mart, Ford, Diageo and Vodafone. We work with more than half of the Advertising Age top 100 advertisers globally and audit over $50 billion of the $110 billion audited advertising spending per year globally.

Accenture's expertise, global reach and innovation mean we lead the industry in analyzing marketing and media effectiveness. Our experts work with some of the top advertisers in the automotive, leisure, telecommunications and consumer goods sectors. We can help marketers quickly pinpoint the areas where marketing investment is underperforming, and take appropriate corrective actions.

Our full force of assets, capabilities and personnel form cross-functional teams of industry-specific strategists, cross-industry marketing return on investment (MROI) specialists, econometricians and change management professionals. This, combined with our tangible assets and methodologies, allows us to deliver strong media auditing initiatives. In turn, this can help leading marketing organizations turn better profits and transform their businesses into high performers.

Accenture Marketing Sciences offers unique, truly global service in media auditing utilizing the skills and experience of our 160 media experts across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. We have offices around the world in markets accounting for 90 percent of global media spending markets worldwide.

Our Media Buying Optimization delivers bottom-line results quickly. We quantify our clients' current media performance, the opportunity to improve value and the techniques and processes to deliver this improvement. This insight allows real-time tracking and helps optimize media delivery.

Our Media Agency Optimization provides the world's leading service in media-buying agency evaluation and selection. We help companies improve their agency decisions by comparing the actual cost of advertising schedules and the impact of strategy and quality metrics among rival agencies.

Accenture Marketing Services translates common sense and creativity into insight and cost savings. You will find the long-term gains and short-term advantages invaluable as you travel the road to high performance.

Our global media team oversees the largest pool of client media data in the world. Our specialists, working with the largest advertisers in the world each have many years of experience in all of the world's largest media markets.

James Walker
President
James Walker is a Partner at Accenture, where he is President of Accenture Marketing Sciences’ Media business. James leads a practice of 250+ marketing analytics/media research professionals across 18 AMS offices in Europe, Media East, Africa, Latin America and Asia/Pacific. He has more than 20 years experience of marketing analytics and optimisation covering media research/planning, sales force optimisation, advertising effectiveness, portfolio planning, segmentation and customer lifetime value and price/promo/markdown modelling, etc.
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Adam Swann
Managing Director UK and Global
Adam has in-depth experience of managing and optimising the Media budget at all stages of the process and across all issues, to optimise the business plan. He draws his expertise from 10 years in Media Agencies across all functions and levels from Buyer to MD, and 10 years at Kellogg’s as EMEA Director for Media, and Marketing effectiveness.
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George Patten
Global Commercial and Business Development
George is the global commercial business development lead for Accenture Marketing Sciences’ Media practice, based in London. Previously he was Managing Director of Media Audits and has extensive experience of Media and Marketing Optimization. George spent his early career working for two of the UK’s largest media agencies OMD and PHD and has worked on improving ROI and efficiency across many key sectors including FMCG, Automotive, Retail Cosmetics, Entertainment and Financial Services.
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Hellmut Fischer
Northern European Lead
With more than 12 years of experience, Hellmut leads the Media business in Northern Europe. His functional and industry experience helps AMS clients achieve high performance and optimize their media spend.
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Francesco Blini
Southern European Lead
Francesco leads the Media business in Southern Europe. He has 15 years of experience in media, including research, strategy, planning and buying. Francesco has worked for international media & advertising groups, such as Publicis, WPP, and Aegis, and has helped clients in diverse industry sectors improve ROI and efficiency.
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Eric Scheck
North America Lead
Eric is responsible for media performance evaluation and business development in North America.
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Charles Godbold
Asia Pacific Lead
Charles is the head of our Media business in Asia Pacific. He helps our clients achieve marketing and media effectiveness.
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AMERICAS:

Edison Benetti
Brazil
Edison heads up Media Science in Brazil, helping to deliver strong media auditing initiatives for our clients.
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Carola Cruz
Mexico
Carola leads our Media Science team in Mexico, helping to deliver bottom-line results to our AMS clients quickly and easily.
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EUROPE:

Andrea Casini
Italy
Using skills from his days as a football referee, Andrea leads Media Science in Italy. He shows his passion for Accenture through his exceptional client service.
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Tom van Esser
Netherlands & Belgium
Tom leads our Media Science team in the Netherlands and Belgium. He helps our clients achieve high performance in media optimization.
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Magnus Zackariasson
Nordic
Magnus is the Director of Accenture Marketing Sciences in the Nordics. He can help you optimize your sales and marketing activities, while minimizing the cost.
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Neal Deeprose
UK
Neal heads up the Media Science team in the UK, providing insight and analysis to a wide portfolio of high performing clients.
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ASIA:

Doug Pearce
North Asia
Doug leads the North Asia AMS team, based in Shanghai. He is committed to ensuring clients maximize their marketing investment.
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Mike Zhang
China
Mike is a specialist in communication planning in Mainland China, focused on managing and delivering projects of media auditing.
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Bhavana Mittal
India
With more than 9 years of advertising and media experience across industries, Bhavana is an amateur photographer and an avid Calvin & Hobbes fan. She leads our Media experts team in India.
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