CITATION

Sugiyama, Kotaro and Andree, Tim. The Dentsu Way: Secrets of Cross Switch Marketing from the World's Most Innovative Advertising Agency. US: McGraw-Hill, 2010.

The Dentsu Way: Secrets of Cross Switch Marketing from the World's Most Innovative Advertising Agency

Published:  November 2010

eISBN: 9780071752787 0071752781 | ISBN: 9780071748124

Book description:

The breakthrough marketing strategy from the world's most innovative advertising agency

One of the largest and most successful advertising companies in the world, Dentsu has pioneered a sophisticated new cross-communication strategy--and now it's being revealed for the first time. In a world saturated with marketing messages, making your offering relevant is your biggest challenge. Dentsu's Cross Switch model meets it head on.

The Dentsu Way shares proven tactics for getting your message to consumers and creating "scenarios" to move them through calibrated Contact Points to meet whatever specific goal you set.

This game-changing book:

  • Explains Dentsu's 110-year history and unique service structure, as well as its broad range of business fields

  • Introduces ten case studies of successful campaigns, which have won international advertising awards at events such as the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and ADFEST

  • Provides nine of Dentsu's newest original tools and analysis methods

Gain broader, more meaningful customer involvement and penetrate more deeply than ever into your market by following the Dentsu Way.

Kotaro Sugiyama

is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu. He has been a leader of the digital business in Dentsu since 1999. He also played an important role in the foundation of the Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards where he served as chairman for several years. He is uniquely conversant with both traditional ads and digital marketing.

Tim Andree

is the first non-Japanese Executive Officer of Dentsu. With more than 25 years of global marketing and communications experience, he worked at Toyota, Canon, the National Basketball Association, and BASF before joining Dentsu, where he currently oversees the company's operations in the Americas and Europe.

The Dentsu Cross Switch Team

was formed to develop new concepts and methods to implement Cross Communications for the Dentsu Group's more than 6,000 clients.

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