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Procter & Gamble reduced its ad vendor count from 500 to 50

Kurt Abrahamson · 873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play · Dec 14, 2017 · at 9:12

Kurt Abrahamson, CEO of ShareThis, discusses agency and brand consolidation trends in digital media and advertising.

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“Procter & Gamble is a good example. They've gone from. 500 vendors to 50 vendors in the last two or three years.”

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The claim, plainly

Procter & Gamble reduced its vendor count from 500 vendors to 50 vendors between 2014 and 2017.

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Assessment

While Procter & Gamble did conduct a significant consolidation of its marketing, advertising, and production agency roster between 2014 and 2017, official P&G statements and reporting by trade publications (including Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal, and MediaPost) document that the roster was reduced from approximately 6,000 vendors down to roughly 2,500. There is no documented record of P&G cutting an overall vendor or agency count from 500 to 50 during this period; the stated figures miss actual documented figures by an order of magnitude.

P&G officially documented reducing its global marketing and production vendor roster from approximately 6,000 agencies in 2014 to roughly 2,500 by late 2017.
Comprehensive reviews of P&G corporate announcements and trade coverage (Ad Age, Adweek, The Wall Street Journal) show no record of a vendor reduction from 500 to 50.

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