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title: "Marketing Agency vs Marketing Firm"  
description: "If you’re interested in the world of marketing, at some point or another; you’re going to want to learn who the biggest players in the game are. Natur"  
author: "shraddha kapse"  
published: 2020-01-06  
updated: 2020-01-06  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/310621/marketing-agency-vs-marketing-firm  
category: "services and business process"  
tags: ["meme marketing", "crazy over marketing", "meme marketin"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Marketing Agency vs Marketing Firm

Agencies And Consultancies

Once you look for the [biggest companies](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100394/5-iitians-who-made-india-proud-by-leading-the-world-s-biggest-companies) in the [marketing business](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156228/how-will-your-experience-benefit-our-digital-marketing-business), you’ll find a couple of names on that list – like Deloitte Digital, PwC, Accenture Interactive, etc.

However, these aren’t strictly [traditional marketing](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/244/does-digital-marketing-engulfs-traditional-marketing) agencies.

And yet, they obviously take in a huge amount of revenue for the provision of marketing practices and services; while also managing to dominate the top list above more specified [marketing agencies](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36738/which-are-the-best-social-media-marketing-agencies-in-mumbai-or-bangalore-for-small-businesses).

This is a shift that’s been going on for the past decade – so why is it happening, and what are the [market conditions](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/113468/how-did-mr-ratan-tata-adapt-to-changing-indian-market-conditions) facilitating it?

In order to answer this question, we’ll have to explore the definitions of marketing firms and marketing agencies more closely.

[Marketing Agency](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/98355/what-are-effective-tips-on-how-to-promote-a-marketing-agency)

If you take a look at a traditional agency and their [marketing management](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84814/why-is-marketing-management-important-for-the-businesses), you’ll find that their business model is crystal clear; they connect talented, creative people, with clients who have specific marketing-[related issues](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50847/how-to-fix-an-apple-iphone-6-that-can-t-make-outgoing-calls-other-call-related-issues).

Also, remember this, as it will be crucial for later on – in this case, the client company knows what their marketing problem is (or at least, they believe they do).

They’ve got a strategy, model and framework that they want to implement.

What they want from the agency is a supplement or complete replacement of the in-house marketing team of the client.

When a marketing agency does work for a client, they most often do so with [project management](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1868/project-management-in-software-development) oversight from the client, [as well as](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48044/who-won-the-wimbledon-singles-as-well-as-the-world-table-tennis-singles-crown) careful directions.

Most typically, the marketing agency will have a direct relationship with the CMO – chief marketing officer – of the client.

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