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WARC Best Practice, April 2020
Explores the current thinking and writing on the subject of low-budget marketing, a hazy category of marketing, WARC generally defines low budgets as $0-$500,000.
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Ruth Saunders, WARC Best Practice, November 2017
As marketers come under constant pressure to deliver ROI while doing "more with less", they can find efficiencies by adopting strategies that have proven successful for a number of start-ups.
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05 August 2020
Mobile advertising continues to see growth in the UK, despite the impact of COVID-19 on marketing budgets, according to a new WARC report which finds brands looking to engage consumers in a socially distanced world largely through video and social.
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05 August 2020
More than £1 billion was taken out of traditional advertising expenditure during the UK’s lockdown period, according to new data from Nielsen which finds that between March 23 and June 30 there was a 48% year-on-year drop in spend.
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WARC Data, August 2020
Summarises the findings of WARC's latest mobile marketing survey, conducted across the UK on behalf of the Mobile Marketing Association, to assess how advertisers and agencies are using, and planning to use, mobile in their marketing activities.
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WARC Best Practice, August 2020
A summary of new thinking and best practice on e-commerce and the future of effectiveness, from the WARC Guide.
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WARC Category Intelligence, July 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in audio.
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WARC Category Intelligence, August 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in search.
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30 July 2020
After a 70% reduction in US adspend activities in the COVID-19 shadow, McDonald’s has accrued a “sizable marketing war chest” it intends to invest in the back half of 2020, according to Chris Kempczinski, the QSR’s president and CEO.
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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.
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27 July 2020
WARC’s Future of Strategy report shows how the vast majority of strategists are witnessing clients decrease spend, with delays or cancellations of work rife – which is changing life for strategists too.
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Moon Young Kang, International Journal of Market Research, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2020, pp. 483-498
When planning for advertising, an accurate assessment of the impact of advertising is important so that managers can allocate their budgets to maximize the return on each advertising dollar.
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Brent Nelsen, July 2020
While planning around COVID-19, a sports fanatic friend and colleague reminded me what Mike Tyson once said, “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” That sounds about right.
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Shann Biglione, July 2020
Shann Biglione explores four themes that will be on many media strategists' minds as they look for ways out of the COVID-19 crisis. Every crisis starts with the same prophecy: this time, it’s different.
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WARC Exclusive, July 2020
Analysing the results of a global WARC survey of senior strategists, the Future of Strategy report provides both quantitative and qualitative data with a focus on the disruption of COVID-19.
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Ed Cotton, July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept around the globe, causing the tragedy of the loss of life and, at the same time wreaked havoc on the economy.
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15 July 2020
UK marketing budgets have been slashed to their lowest levels in twenty years as figures in the Q2 2020 IPA Bellwether Report show a dramatic increase in the net balance of firms that have cut marketing budgets: from -6.1% in Q1 to -50.7% in Q2.
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Mike Teasdale, July 2020
Now into the second week of the #StopHateforProfit boycott, Mike Teasdale explores what it would take to force Facebook to make a change.
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WARC Exclusive, May 2020
Chris Reitermann, Chief Executive, Asia & Greater China, Ogilvy, outlines how brands can recession-proof their brands by working through three phases.
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WARC Category Intelligence, July 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in the FMCG category.
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WARC Category Intelligence, July 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in TV.
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WARC Category Intelligence, July 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in mobile.
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WARC Category Intelligence, July 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in the financial services category.
Opinion
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James Hurman, June 2020
Following the launch of The Effectiveness Code, James Hurman takes a deep-dive into how to apply the Creative Effectiveness Ladder – a six-step framework for creative effectiveness that draws on insights gathered from over 4,500 case studies – to your marketing.
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VAB, WARC COVID-19 Series, June 2020
This research looks at recent TV audience behavior, what sports fans are watching during COVID, OTT trends and COVID-19 ad performance.
