Several people who rightly chose to remain anonymous talked to The Wall Street Journal about the Association of National Advertisers’ eight-month probe of the relationships between ad agencies and their media partners. The piece just went live, and it is a mess.

Seems that quite a few agencies receive “rebates” or kickbacks from certain unnamed media companies as long as they spend a given amount to place ads in those publications. According to the sources mentioned above, “The group found that the practice was widespread within the sample it studied.”

Read the full Adweek article here.