Staff Reporters
Apr 24, 2020

Hakuhodo invests across disciplines and geographies, but to what avail?

AGENCY REPORT CARD: See Hakuhodo's overall grade and our detailed report breaking down its 2019 performance in terms of leadership, creativity, innovation, business growth, and people/diversity initiatives.

Hakuhodo invests across disciplines and geographies, but to what avail?

Hakuhodo professes a desire to expand from its traditional strength in Japan and better join up its operations across the region. It made several moves to add to its footprint and capabilities in 2019, and is also pressing a wide range of joint ventures and projects aimed at enhancing its digital and data prowess. What evidence did we find to support the success of these efforts?

How did Hakuhodo respond to the challenges it faced in APAC in 2019?

Check out Hakuodo's Agency Report Card now to see:

  • The agency's overall grade for 2019
     
  • Grades and detailed discussion of performance across five categories:
     
  • Leadership: A qualitative assessment of leadership performance, key regional decisions, management stability and contributions to industry by agency leaders.
  • Creativity: Compelling and effective campaign work, judged qualitatively. Regional and global awards recognition is included, with higher weighting given to wins at major shows. Work demonstrative of high effectiveness for clients is also considered.
  • Innovation: A qualitative assessment of Asia-based initiatives and innovations based on their improvements to the agency, people, clients and industry.
  • Business growth: Assessed by the value of accounts won and lost in 2019, as calculated by the agencies and R3’s New Business League, published in Campaign Asia-Pacific, along with recognition of new project work and organic growth through retained clients. 
  • People and diversity: Agency efforts to attract, retain and develop a high calibre of talent with a commitment to staff diversity and wellbeing are examined qualitatively.
     
  • The grade the agency gave itself, and why
     
  • How the agency performed versus its 2018 scores
     
  • The agency's self-declared areas of specialisation.

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Source:
Campaign Asia

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