ANA's Production Transparency Report Corroborates Years of Illegal, Anticompetitive Behavior by Ad Agencies

Trade org offers best practices for advertisers

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The Wall Street Journal rocked the ad industry last December by revealing that the U.S. Department of Justice had begun investigating the practice of bid rigging, which agencies and their parent companies allegedly use to divert work on big-budget client campaigns to their own in-house postproduction units.

Within days, all four of the largest holding groups confirmed that they’d been subpoenaed as part of the probe. The news was especially noteworthy because attorney Rebecca Meiklejohn sent multiple former Grey executives to jail on charges

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