Article
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WARC Category Intelligence, April 2021
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in channel integration.
Opinion
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Mike Colling, March 2021
What if you, as a CMO, were able to show not only how much revenue your marketing investment will deliver, but when? Mike Colling explains how you can.
Data
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Zoe McCready, WARC Data, March 2021
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index for March 2021, when all regions came back in growth for staffing levels.
Article
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Research on WARC, March 2021
McKinsey’s research on B2B decision makers confirms that omnichannel is not simply a trend, nor a pandemic workaround – rather, it is a critically important fixture for B2B sales globally.
Data
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Zoe McCready, WARC Data, February 2021
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index for February 2021, when the index for staffing levels came back into growth for the first time since February 2020.
Opinion
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Virginie Lannevere, February 2021
Will 2020 – with its ups and downs, its re-shuffling of possibilities and consumer behaviour under the constraints of lockdowns, semi-lockdowns and other curfews – have permanently changed media investment in TV? Or its effectiveness? Virginie Lannevere of Analytic Partners doubts it.
Opinion
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Rob Clapp, February 2021
This month: How TikTok is setting up for shopping success in 2021, what the long-term trends in budget effectiveness are, and how brands are failing to engage new Muslim consumers.
Opinion
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Anurag Gupta, February 2021
With martech now seen as a key component for recovery, leaders need take into consideration how its deployment should impact the way the business operates across all functions and levels, writes Anurag Gupta.
Article
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Jay Friedman, WARC Best Practice, February, 2021
Examines how hyperlocal campaign optimizations, with fine-tuned attention to potential buyers that move away from assumptions, can result in campaign effectiveness and efficiency.
Article
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Bruno Gralpois, WARC Exclusive, February, 2021
This article examines the increased tension in client–agency relationships amid the COVID-induced recession, and how to make 2021 an opportunity to renew and refresh these partnerships.
Opinion
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Mark Inskip, February 2021
It’s as tough a time as it ’ s ever been for businesses, and marketing budgets are under extreme pressure, but going dark is a false economy, says Kantar’s Mark Inskip.
News
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29 January 2021
The global marketing industry suffered disruption and decline in 2020 because of the pandemic, but ended the year with a return to growth, according to an annual review of WARC’s Global Marketing Index (GMI).
Data
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Zoe McCready, WARC Data, January 2021
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index for January 2021, when the Headline GMI and the global index for marketing budgets show stabilising rates of growth.
News
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22 January 2021
Three-quarters (74%) of businesses in the UK intend to increase their marketing research budgets this year to improve their reach to potential customers, according to a new survey from Stravito, the consumer insights platform.
News
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22 January 2021
During 2020, WARC’s Global Marketing Index saw the strongest recovery in the APAC region, reflecting the success of the measures taken to reduce rates of COVID-19.
Data
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WARC Data, January 2021
This article reviews the results of the Global Marketing Index across 2020.
News
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21 January 2021
As expected, UK marketing budgets continued to decline into Q4 2020, though less sharply than in Q3, but with recovery on the horizon, marketers are echoing consumer sentiments of macro gloom while also being more positive about the prospects for the
Opinion
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Alex Brownsell, January 2021
Despite strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of audio advertising, many brands appear unwilling to invest in the medium, writes Alex Brownsell.
Article
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James Hurman with Peter Field, WARC Exclusive, June 2020
This whitepaper presents the results of a major new study of creative effectiveness which has analysed and compared a total of 4,863 effectiveness award entrants and winners from 2011 through 2019, from every major market in the world.
Opinion
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Lana Busignani, January 2021
Marketing budgets have been reduced but millions of dollars will still be wasted in 2021 because marketers aren’t measuring the right things – they need to get smarter, says Lana Busignani.
Research Paper
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Lane Wakefield, Kirk Wakefield, Kevin Lane Keller, and Anne Rivers, Journal of Advertising Research, Digital First, December 2020
Marketers pour millions of dollars into sport sponsorship and need a better understanding of its effects.
Data
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Zoe McCready, WARC Data, December 2020
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index for December 2020, when the global index for marketing budgets reached its highest ever levels of growth.
News
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17 December 2020
Successful brands spend 80% of their budgets on TV and digital channels, according to the latest Media Allocation Benchmark report from WARC – a slight dip on the 82% registered in last year’s study.
Data
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WARC Data, December 2020
Using its database of effective advertising campaigns, WARC analysed over 1,400 case studies that contained budget and media allocation information.
Article
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Ryan Dinger, ANA, B2B Marketer, December 2020
The Gartner 2020 CMO Spend Survey found that 73% of the respondents expect the short-term negative impact of COVID-19 to be short-lived whereas the World Economic Forum survey of CEOS, found that 60% believe there will be a U-shaped recession.
