Fallon Worldwide: Creating a Competitive Advantage with Creativity

Fallon Worldwide is an award-winning global advertising agency whose clients include Ralston Purina, Timex, and Rolling Stone magazine. Pat Fallon and his partners challenged the status quo and turned a corporate culture of respect, transparency, optimism, honesty, fun, resilience, and generosity into a competitive advantage. From creative to strategy to operations, a focus on creativity has been infused into every aspect of the agency.

This activity is important because the promotion decision process is useful when developing an advertising campaign. Like most advertising agencies, Fallon Worldwide goes through three steps in the development of its campaigns: planning, implementation, and evaluation. The goal of this activity is to demonstrate your understanding of how advertising campaigns are developed at Fallon Worldwide using the promotion decision process.

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During the implementation stage, the Fallon creative team works with Fallon media buyers to select and schedule the media. Because Fallon Worldwide offers a number of services including research, media, copy, artwork, and production, it would be classified as a(n)

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• social media agency.

• full-service agency.

• limited-service agency.

• in-house agency.

• specialized agency.