By Alex Vero

Agency bid-rigging has underlined the friction that exists in the agency and production landscape.

It’s a story that first broke at the end of last year, and the bid-rigging production scandal, first exposed in the Wall Street Journal, keeps gathering pace. What started with an investigation by the US Department of Justice into agencies requesting that independent production companies inflate their prices to ensure their in-house team won the work, has resulted in leading independent production companies stating that they won’t pitch on work where the advertising agency is also competing against them.

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Source: The Drum