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Research on WARC, July 2020
Report from the Advertising Research Foundation offers guidance on how brands should respond to social unrest.
Opinion
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Cathy Taylor, July 2020
Sometimes, the best way to get a feel for what's really going on in a country as big as the US is to look at it in microcosm.
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Brian Carruthers, Event Reports, Digital Transformation Conference, June 2020
Discusses the need to understand the behaviours that make digital transformations successful.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Lions Live, June 2020
Procter & Gamble, the consumer-packaged goods manufacturer, is using the power of marketing to help tackle the systemic racism faced by the Black community in the United States.
Opinion
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Cathy Taylor, June 2020
From its humble beginnings as a single restaurant, McDonald’s has become one of the world's leading food service brands with more than 36,000 restaurants in over 100 countries.
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, June 2020
Fernando Machado, global chief marketing officer at Burger King, believes that brands must “walk the walk” on diversity and inclusion and not rely on advertising to show their values.
Opinion
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Barry Silverstein, June 2020
For the last few years, in marketing circles and beyond, the latest iteration of corporate good has been ‘purpose’.
News
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20 May 2020
The role of the Chief Marketing Officer is alive and well and will stay that way in the future – but it’s in for some major changes, concludes a new study from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).
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Nicolas Jarvis, WARC Exclusive, May 2020
Looks at Australia in the wake of the bushfires and in the midst of Coronavirus and states that crisis management and the ability to manage in times of great pressure has a direct correlation to future commercial success.
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24 April 2020
The marketing skillset is changing rapidly; by prioritising upskilling, soft skills and implementing continuous learning, brands can develop more effective marketing teams, says a leading specialist in media executive search.
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WARC Best Practice, April 2020
A summary of new thinking and best practice on structuring for effectiveness, from the WARC Guide.
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Michael Kassan and Christopher Vollmer, WARC COVID-19 Series, April 2020
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the marketing and media environment is now dramatically different than a few weeks ago, and marketers need new assumptions to navigate the near-term future.
Article
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Joanna Reesby, WARC Exclusive, April 2020
The marketing skillset is changing rapidly; by prioritising upskilling, soft skills and implementing continuous learning, brands can develop more effective marketing teams.
Article
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Ryan Kangisser, WARC Exclusive, April 2020
In housing digital media buying is a popular trend, but it isn’t right for every brand and requires careful strategy.
Opinion
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WARC from Home, April 2020
Every week WARC from Home will guide you round the latest thinking on a key topic, pointing you in the direction of must-read articles, seminal research papers and essential webinars, to ensure you are top of the class when we all finally return to office life.
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Research on WARC, March 2020
Provides guidance for digital marketers who need to be able to not only recruit the best people, but alsokeep up-to-date with changes in technology and working culture in order to retain them.
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Sam Peña-Taylor, Event Reports, IIeX, February 2020
Dutch travel website Booking built a research capability from scratch that has developed into a strategic insights consultancy within the company.
News
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28 January 2020
Brands taking elements of their marketing in-house need to consider how their internal working culture can affect the success of this approach, as a new study highlights some significant differences with agencies.
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22 January 2020
Even as Bytedance is reported to be building a games division capable of challenging in a market led by Tencent, the WeChat owner is itself preparing to take on the TikTok owner’s dominance of short-form video.
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Chuck Kapelke, ANA Magazine, ANA Magazine, January 2020
Looks at findings from the Make Change Real 2019 CMO Survey, which enumerates the obstacles that marketers face as their efforts to transform brands into engines for long-term growth are hampered by short-term planning cycles, shrinking budgets, and misaligned organizational structures.
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10 January 2020
Far-reaching changes to the media and entertainment industry have caused around a third (34%) of executives working in the sector to fear that their company will no longer exist within five years unless they reinvent their business.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Money 20/20, October 2019
Bank of America, the financial services provider, has built a robust strategy that is centered around improving the client experience.
News
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02 December 2019
Marketers have made considerable progress to become more data-driven, yet there remain numerous barriers preventing them from getting the most out of data, a new survey has revealed.
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MRS Awards, Finalist, MRS Award for Business-to-Business Research, 2019
The University of Warwick, a university in the UK, developed its mental wellbeing audit to help employers listen to their employees and give them relevant insights to help accelerate change.
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Billy Seabrook, Carolyn Heller Baird, ANA Magazine, Forward, November 2019
In today's virtual environment, companies realize that their brand needs to stand for something beyond just the transaction, it needs a purpose that is brand-authentic, relevant, and tangible.
