Data
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WARC Data, October 2020
Summarises the findings of WARC's latest mobile marketing survey, conducted across India on behalf of the Mobile Marketing Association, to assess how advertisers and agencies are using, and planning to use, mobile in their marketing activities.
Article
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Henrik Nordmark, WARC Exclusive, October, 2020
Henrik Nordmark, Head of Data Science at data science company Profusion, explains why algorithms are biased, and why mishandling algorithms leads to outcomes such as the UK’s recent exam results fiasco.
Article
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Felicia Scott, WARC Exclusive, October 2020
Discusses bias within organizations and how to address it.
News
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07 October 2020
Growing digital usage, greater adoption of social shopping technologies and a global pandemic has accelerated social commerce in Southeast Asia, according to a new study by AI-based tech solutions provider iKala.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, September 2020
This article provides guidance and reading on the subject of real-time marketing; closely aligned with technologies like programmatic, its implications travel across the marketing ecosystem.
News
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22 September 2020
AI and computer algorithms seemingly now extend into almost every corner of our lives.
Research Paper
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Samer Muthana Sarsam, Hosam Al-Samarraie, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, and Bianca Wright, Int. Journal of Market Research, Vol. 62, No. 5, 2020, pp. 578-598
Recognizing both literal and figurative meanings is crucial to understanding users' opinions on various topics or events in social media.
Article
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Euromonitor Strategy Briefings, August 2020
Highlights the results of Euromonitor’s Voice of the Industry: Travel and Tourism survey, alongside commentary and context from Euromonitor experts.
Article
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Steven Moy, WARC Exclusive, August 2020
With pressure to generate fast consumer insights in a time of constant change, brands need to use data and artificial intelligence to their advantage.
Opinion
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Tom Ollerton, July 2020
Tom Ollerton, founder of Automated Creative doesn’t believe artificial intelligence will replace human creativity but argues that it can bring clarity and much needed objectivity.
Data
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WARC Data, July 2020
Summarises the findings of WARC's latest mobile marketing survey, conducted across EMEA on behalf of the Mobile Marketing Association, to assess how advertisers and agencies are using, and planning to use, mobile in their marketing activities.
News
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14 July 2020
With 5G becoming a geopolitical battleground, Samsung is already looking ahead to 6G, which it believes could be a commercial proposition by 2028.
Article
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Rishad Tobaccowala, WARC Exclusive, June 2020
This is an excerpt from the opening chapter of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Digital Age by Rishad Tobaccowala (HarperCollins Leadership, 2020), which discusses how the key to successful transformation in any organization lies between human intuition and data-driven insights.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, June 2020
Explores the reading and thinking surrounding the Tencent-owned popular Chinese app WeChat, a messaging platform that has succeeded in expanding its capabilities to 'conversational commerce'.
News
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03 June 2020
A major new study into what Australia’s Gen Z are really like reveals that this group of 14-to-24 year-olds are probably the least radical young people for generations.
Research Paper
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Mina Akbarabadi and Monireh Hosseini, Int. Journal of Market Research, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2020, pp. 272-287
Nowadays, many people refer to online customer reviews that are available on most shopping websites to make a better purchase decision.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, May 2020
Covers the current thinking and reading on the subject of artificial intelligence, a significant step for any industry that manipulates large quantities of data and has to make quick decisions based on those findings; in marketing the implications of AI are far-reaching.
News
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21 May 2020
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will invest RMB10bn (US$1.
Article
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Kate Scott-Dawkins and Mark Syal, Research on WARC, May 2020
With so little certainty around what brand marketers should expect over the coming decade, this research sets out to identify the boundaries of expectation and the areas of conventional wisdom and agreement.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, April 2020
With many brands now using chatbots as a marketing tool, this article examines the benefits, purposes and future of chatbots.
News
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28 April 2020
As China emerges from its COVID-19 crisis, there are optimistic signs for the luxury sector, but observers don’t expect it to return to business as usual and some are touting an enhanced role for artificial intelligence as the category shifts online.
News
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20 April 2020
The changing roles of influencers and artificial intelligence are among the trends identified in the WARC Media Strategy Report 2020, which highlights key themes for an effective media strategy.
Article
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WARC Exclusive, April 2020
Analysing trends in media strategy, including the use of data, tech, channel integration and partnerships, with lessons drawn from the winners of the WARC Media Awards.
Article
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Nikki Mendonça, WARC Exclusive, April 2020
For brands looking to drive increased effectiveness of their marketing activities, it’s vital to understand the new rules of brand experience.
News
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14 April 2020
French ad giant Publicis has announced plans to save €500 million in costs by cutting salaries and halving dividends, while at the same time accelerating the rollout out of its AI platform, Marcel, in the US.
