
7 Red Flags Your Agency Is a Scam
Seven red flags that signal a sub-standard digital marketer. Fake SEO, fake AI agencies, vanity metrics, reporting fraud, outsourcing scams, strategy-deck-as-deliverable. The evaluation discipline.

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Seven red flags that signal a sub-standard digital marketer. Fake SEO, fake AI agencies, vanity metrics, reporting fraud, outsourcing scams, strategy-deck-as-deliverable. The evaluation discipline.

MONA Creative, founded in 2015 by Ilana Alperstein and Eva Karagiorgas, is a marketing and PR agency built on food, hospitality, and lifestyle brands.

Magrino is a New York-based PR and integrated communications firm founded in 1992 by Susan Magrino. Anchored in food, wine, spirits, travel, hospitality, and lifestyle consumer — the taste-maker categories where editorial relationships, critic access, and long-cycle brand building decide market outcomes.

How to choose a marketing agency in 2026, using Wieden+Kennedy's 43-year Nike partnership as the model: six selection questions and common failure points.

Time's 2019 Person of the Year choice was a masterclass in engineered controversy — polarized audiences, dominated two news cycles, and forced a legacy brand back into cultural relevance. Here's how it worked.

P&G's Marc Pritchard, on continuing the efficiency program after $1 billion in agency-fee and production cost savings, the in-housing of Secret, and the case for reach over excess frequency in media.

The 15 types of digital marketing in 2026 — SEO, GEO, content, social, influencer, email, affiliate, paid, display, video, podcast, mobile, community, event, partnership. Cost, ROI, and AI disruption for each channel.

Alex Shvarts founded FundKite, which reports 200,000+ applications processed. His thesis on SMB lending, FundKite's stated terms, and what Federal Reserve data says online funding costs.

Lion & Lamb Communications is proudly celebrating 15 years of success serving industries that cater and appeal to people's lifestyle, health and leisure times.

The idea of measurable goals in marketing is hardly a foreign one.
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