The ICA and its Media Advisory Committee want to improve the media planning product and outcomes for all Canadian agencies. With PRIME, we have developed an evaluation framework for Media Companies across three pillars: Capability, Diversity, and Canadian.
This evaluation is voluntary and provides insights to planners on key components of a media companies offering. The application of the framework will showcase the further value of local planning to all marketers.
The ICA’s Media Advisory Committee are:
The ICA’s PRIME Advisory Committee will be actively involved in initiatives and best practice from around the world. Through the global agency alliance, VoxComm, the group will link with the equivalent media future’s groups in over 40 countries.
In 2021, the ICA reached out to journalist and author David Moscrop. On the back of his 2019 book Too Dumb for Democracy? he joined ICA members for a presentation and discussion on why we make bad political decisions and how we can make better ones. Fundamental to this was expenditure on local news media.
As a follow us we asked associate professor of finance at University of Illinois Chicago, Dermot Murphy to speak to our leaders. Murphy has shown how local newspapers play an important watchdog role for governments, highlighting that in areas where a local newspaper has closed, taxes per person are, on average, USD$85 higher. Lack of oversight from reporters leads to factors such as higher government wages, insurance costs and increased interest charges on borrowing. Also joining the discussion was Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland, looking at the behavioural economics around media choices and opportunities.
A discussion of research paper Financing Dies in Darkness? with one of its authors, Dermot Murphy, Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A discussion with Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy UK
Finally, global research company YouGov carried out some research that shows the economic realities for local news – demonstrating the difficulty of encouraging people to pay for these trusted local sources. While a combined 63% are comfortable with some level of paywall for news, a significant 37% think it’s unreasonable to block any news content behind a paywall.
For further information email Scott Knox (scott@theica.ca)
