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New Agency Research: Digital Agencies Face Stiff Headwinds in 2025 After a Tough 2024
State of Digital Services 2025 Executive SummaryDigital agency growth stabilized in 2024 but varied by size. Studio shops returned to long-term growth levels, Small shops maintained slow but steady gains, and Medium and Large agencies experienced mild contractions for...
Agency Benchmarks for Assessing Fragility
Benchmarks to Tell When an Agency's Running Hot It isn’t easy to tell when an agency’s running hot. It’s especially difficult when revgen’s covering everything up. We saw this in 2023. The revgen tide receded, and the bony wreckage of nasty agency metrics littered the...
Stabilizing Digital Agencies With & Without Benchmarks
The easiest way to identify issues at an agency is benchmarking. It’s one of the first steps I take when building growth strategies because it tells me where to dig deeper. Here’s what I evaluate, some questions I ask, and some notes on implications: Revgen Revenue...
PR Brief: Troubles With WordPress
TAKEAWAY The WordPress vs. WP Engine situation is influencing agency leaders to shift away from WordPress and WP Engine, but the overall impact on agencies is expected to be middling. It's essentially creating more work and risk for agencies that offer WordPress sites...
Digital Agency Industry Research 2024
We’ve updated our Digital Agency Industry Report with the latest data on digital shops. This is our primer piece for getting everyone up to speed on the digital agency world. It's been helpful to everyone from the smallest digital shops to the largest agency holding...
Bending, Not Breaking: The State of Digital Services 2024
Agency leaders who participated in the survey already got their copy, but you can grab yours today! For the first time, we’re making these reports available outside of the Promethean-Bureau-Parallax client network. We could tell 2023 was tough while we were in it, but...
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