The latest research, insights, tools, and resources that make managing a digital shop easier,
Who's Your Agency's Favorite Web Host?
Special Survey EditionThis is a special edition of our newsletter. We'll be back next week with our standard deep dive into a new agency topic. Today, we're doing a study on how digital agency teams evaluate web hosts, and we'd appreciate your perspective. As a thank you, we'll send the full analysis and a $25 gift card to everyone who submits a valid response. Research InvitationI'd like to invite you to participate in our research. It takes about 5min on average. We're hoping to learn which hosts rank highest for things like:
Help Get the Word OutIf you're comfortable, would you be willing to share this with your dev leaders or whoever handles hosting client sites? Here's the link: https://prometheanresearch.typeform.com/2025Hosting Thanks in advance for your help! See you next week, -Nick |
Research & Strategy for Digital Agencies
The latest research, insights, tools, and resources that make managing a digital shop easier,
TL;DR We're launching signups for the Founding Cohort of a new group for agency leaders. We're kicking things off in October with our first quarterly pulse check. It's free for members who participate in quarterly surveys. Founding Cohort spots are open until the first survey in October. Founding Cohort members will have the opportunity to help shape future research. Later, we'll layer on optional paid surveys and interviews. NEW AGENCY SURVEY: Client Lifetime Value - Participate now and get...
TL;DR We’re building a private insights group for agency leaders interested in real data about what’s going on in the market. Sign up now. For agency leaders who have their strategy, revgen, and structure in place, employee experience (EX) is the next step that can drive significant long-term growth. Developing EX through the service-profit chain provides agency leaders with a solid framework to link EX to agency performance. The S-P chain is essentially: Happy employees make happy clients....
TL;DR There are 12 key components to our updated Factory-Consultancy Framework: Project uniqueness Delivery complexity Pricing model Degree of customization Talent mix and cost Staffing difficulty Service maturity Sales cycle Client concentration Revenue predictability Contract negotiation complexity Presence of substitutes Almost all of them have a few key activities needed to move right toward consultancies. We've also updated our Factory-Consultancy Diagnostic to account for the new...