Agency Life International by Teamleader
Episodes
How to fix the bad habits that are killing your agency - with Drew McLellan (Agency Management Institute)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if your biggest risk isn’t a bad quarter, but a bad habit? What if you're a leader who doesn’t lead, your team is flying blind, and know...
Why agencies don’t scale - and what the best ones do instead. With Nick Petroski (Promethean Research)
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Petroski left Wall Street to found Promethean Research: an agency that analyses trends and strategies within the agency world, armed with data fr...
Game on: Winning the Champions League – with Sharon Bennett (WePlay)
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In sports marketing, it’s always go time. Clients are demanding, the workday does not end at five o’clock and everything is based on data. You nee...
Stop pitching like it’s 2012: new rules for growth. With Duncan Wood (Ingenuity)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business development for agencies has changed dramatically. CMOs no longer take meetings on a whim. Your website is your shop window. And good work is...
How do you turn virality into value? – with Dean Joffe (StudioB)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creating ads that people actually want to see is a challenge in itself. But creating viral ads that get shared in group chats? That’s a whole differ...
Financial fitness: what does an agency need for healthy growth? With Mark Probert (Cactus, Agencynomics)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does an agency need to stay financially healthy and grow? Mark Probert is managing partner at Cactus, where he helps agencies scale healthily, an...
The big squeeze: how consolidation puts pressure on agencies. With Michael Farmer (Farmer & Co)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Want to sell your agency? You can. But ask yourself the right questions first, and above all, don't sell to a holding company, says Michael Farme...
No more ‘Pizza Monday’: what does Gen Z really want from your agency? With Carolyn McMurray (Word Tonic)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gen Z. Who are they? What drives them? And what do they want from your agency? At 24, Carolyn McMurray is the boss of Word Tonic, a community of 10,00...
Do agencies make cr*p 95% of the time? With Dr. Pepe Marais (Joe Public SA)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the creative hub of South Africa, Pepe Marais is catalyst. With Joe Public, he has won many local and international awards, and the advertising and...
Confessions of a funny freelancer: with Dave 'The Word Man' Harland (UK)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘The anti-bullshit copywriter with massive fingers’ is perhaps the most apt meta description ever for Dave “The Word Man” Harland, founder of ...
Steve Harrison (UK) argues for more fun and fame in advertising
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two gentlemen from the world of advertising for the price of one: that's what you get in this episode. Steve Harrison opens up about Howard Luck ...
Nick Asbury (UK) on the (non)sense of purpose marketing
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does your agency have a purpose? And what about the clients in your portfolio? Author, poet and anti-purpose thinker Nick Asbury thinks the pendulum h...
Does your agency make brands grow? With Michael Farmer (US)
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agencies have become too docile: they carry out what clients ask and avoid difficult conversations for fear of losing those clients. Yet, according to...
Michael Farmer (US) on the crisis agencies are facing
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agencies are delivering more and more work, for less and less money. We discuss this crisis with Michael Farmer (US), author and agency consultant wit...