Here's how a newly standalone Starcom fared in 2019

Starcom spent some time in 2019 untangling itself from a shared P&L with Spark Foundry and re-establishing its credentials in a tough market. While its parent Publicis and sister agency Zenith were swamped with the global Disney review, Starcom in Asia forged on with its identity as the ‘human experience company’, winning or leading large deals from the likes of Ferrero, Coca Cola and Novartis, even as it retained marquee clients such as P&G, Samsung and Visa in Asia. Publicis Media APAC chief Gerry Boyle says Starcom is focused on reinvigorating its three key drivers: media planning and strategy, media buying and data analytics.

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

Check out Starcom'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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