Our Services
BBS offers objective, practical, experience-based advertising consulting services across all areas of global production process management, enabling our clients to control and optimize their marketing spend.
ADVERTISING PRODUCTION CONSULTING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Interactive Production – Pre-approving web design and interactive advertising production
- Evaluation – TV storyboard, comps, interactive and agency bid specifications, trade show scopes, layouts, plans and budgets
- Analysis and Assessment – of Motion/TV Production, Interactive Production, Still/Print Production, Dealer Shows, Events, Flagship Stores, Trade Show and Radio Production costs
- Implementation – Best Practices
- Attendance – Available throughout the process including all production meetings and selected shoots
- Benchmarking
- Sourcing – Digital, branding agencies, trade show suppliers
- Motion/TV Production, Interactive Production and Still/Print Production Guidelines and Procedures – Creation of proprietary guides
- Transparency – For all media
- Consolidations, RFPS, Preferred Vendor Review and Sourcing
- Distribution/Film Storage – Review current practices and source new suppliers
TRAINING & EDUCATION
- In-house seminars, Group and One-on-One Training Sessions – Custom tailored for marketing, purchasing, and financial teams
- Lessons-Learned Project Reviews – With brand and agency teams
- Production Guideline Reviews & Best Practices Updates – For brand and agency teams
- Motion/TV Production, Interactive Production & Still/Print Production updates on latest technologies and techniques
- Talent Rights Management Essential education for Brands
FINANCIAL CONTROL
- Estimating and Invoicing Procedures – Establishing and managing client-specific policies and process, reviewing of all estimates and invoices with backup and reconciling of final costs with approved estimate prior to client action
- Database – Maintaining client specific data in BBS’ proprietary database yielding both client and overall BBS production spend details
- Auditing – Of suppliers on cost-plus fixed fee TV production
- Cash flow analysis
TALENT RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
The costs of talent re-use payments have a significant impact on the total cost of TV production and radio production. BBS administers talent rights management and payments for a large number of our clients in the following ways:
- Administering all talent residual payments and talent re-use estimating
- Forwarding Holding Fee Notices and Cycle Expiration Reports
- Estimating Talent Cost prior to production with Analysis of Talent Budget
- Negotiating Over-scale and Celebrity Talent
- Re-Negotiating with Talent
- Managing payment for Print Talent and Personal Appearance
- Consulting on Union practices
- Managing Music Publishing and Licensing Services and Royalty recovery
- Integrating International talent considerations
- Producing training and informational sessions for advertisers
- Becoming AOR once commercial goes on air assisting clients with more than one agency
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