Knowledge Hub

Pragmatic media
& procurement
consulting

Wojciech Ras | 2.05.2024 | 2 min read

Learn Media Governance from Media Procurement

Do you know the story of double-agent Kim Philby, a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union?...
Wojciech Ras | 2.03.2024 | 5 min read

Own your accounts!

Do you own your brands’ fb or Instagram accounts? ... Meta or Google Ads Manager account?... And how about ad server? ... Are you sure about that??.................................................................. 
Wojciech Ras | 9.07.2024 | 5 min read

Media Governance Sudoku: Solving the Puzzle of Effective Media Management

The journey to a robust media governance process is like solving a Sudoku puzzle. It requires attention to detail and...
Wojciech Ras | 5.04.2024 | 10 min read

Effective Media Pitch: Preparation. Detailed project plan and timing

Continuing the Effective Media Pitch series, Wojciech Raś looks in detail at what are the best ways to set up a media pitch for success and how to time it to maximize the advantages in a narrow window of opportunity.
Wojciech Ras | 12.03.2024 | 10 min read

Effective Media Pitch: Preparation. Project charter, status quo and resource mapping

Managing Director of Progmatic Media Wojciech Raś, delves deeper into the levels of media pitch preparation, writing and aligning the project charter and mapping the relevant resources.
Wojciech Ras | 24.02.2024 | 10 min read

Effective Media Pitch: “To pitch or not to pitch, that is the question”

The media pitch can be an exciting and very valuable project for an advertiser, but it requires a lot of...
Wojciech Ras | 2 luty 2024 | 10 min read

Effective Media Pitch: Media Delivery Strategy

This article will go through different factors to consider when setting the media delivery strategy. It presents the top line pros and cons of doing media planning and buying in-house as well as those of an outsourced model. It covers a single agency setup and a mix of options such as: splitting planning from buying, appointing different agencies per media category, brand/BU or along different geographic scope in a multi-country setup.
Wojciech Ras | 31 maj 2023 | 5 min read

Governance: value of preventive maintenance

I was recently pondering about the following question related to media (and not only media) governance: what gets more recognition: cleaning up a major mess or keeping a tidy house day-in, day-out? My conclusion is that for following reasons major fixes are more recognized by the organizations than an ongoing good stewardship:
Wojciech Ras | 12 maj 2023 | 5 min read

Media waste – 1st hand experience

There’s still a lot of waste out there when it comes to ads – it costs advertisers money (which could be put into better use) and at best it does not improve brand performance, while the worst-case scenario is that it actually harms the brand. For variety of reasons, digital is the usual suspect when it comes to media waste.