How Agencies Are Shifting Strategies to Compete With Accenture and Deloitte

This past year had consultancies rushing to get into the ad business, with Accenture acquiring London-based Karmarama, Deloitte snagging Heat in San Francisco and Epsilon winning the Del Monte creative review, as Publicis Groupe announced plans to embed teams of data analysts from Sapient into each of its creative agencies.

In turn, strategy departments have borrowed a page from consultancies’ playbooks, helping clients with everything from web design to product development while they hire more employees from outside the traditional agency world.

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