The WARC Podcast (WARC)

WARC’s Ann Marie Kerwin and Cathy Taylor talk about the latest Guide on attention. Discussing viewability, metrics and measurements, examples of outcomes, and much more. Subscribers can read the articles for this guide here.

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This week, in Behind the Winning Idea, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of KFC Australia: Michelin Impossible, awarded Gold in Instant Impact in the 2021 WARC Awards for Effectiveness. KFC shifted perceptions around its food quality with a bold quest to gain a Michelin Star for one of its restaurants in Australia.

We spoke to Sally Spriggs, Group Marketing Director at KFC South Pacific, and Ryan O'Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy Australia to find out more.

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This week WARC’s Aditya Kishore talks to Marta Garcia Alonso, CMO at Heineken Mexico. Discussing Heineken’s Creative Ladder and how they foster creativity internally.

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WARC’s China editor, Jenny Chan, speaks to Sir Martin Sorrell, executive chairman at S4 Capital and Rogier Bikker, managing director at Media.Monks, Greater China. Discussing the China macroeconomic outlook for both inbound and outbound brands, applications of the ‘AI Industrial Revolution’, and the impact on the agency remuneration model.

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The seventh and final episode in our series on effectiveness. Hosted by Fergus O'Carroll, this episode is all about the downfall of measurement with Karen Nelson-Field of Amplified Intelligence.

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The second episode in a special three-part series that looks at creative effectiveness through the lens of the winners of 2023 WARC Awards. This week, WARC’s Amy Rodgers and John Bizzell discuss the brands that have used data to spark creativity, which has subsequently generated results for their business.

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This week WARC talks distinctive assets with Will Caruso, senior marketing scientist at Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, and Alana King, planning director at VCCP. What are distinctive brand assets, how do you use them creatively, and how to avoid confusing consumers?

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WARC Talks the Marketer's Toolkit 2022. In a series of 5 podcasts we will cover the key themes identified in this year's Marketer's Toolkit, next up is the collision of brand and e-commerce.
Find out how rapid digital growth is creating new opportunities to optimise brands for an e-commerce environment with Adam Epstein, Co-president at Perpetua, Mudit Jaju, Global Head of Ecommerce at Wavemaker, and Meg Nieves, Insights Manager at Edge by Ascential.

WARC subscribers can read the full report here or to read the report for free, click here.

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This week WARC’s Rica Facundo talks anime with Robin Lau, global strategist of digital and entertainment at Dentsu. Discussing the rise of anime as a cultural force, anime fandoms, and why marketers should be paying attention to this.

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WARC's Anna Hamill talks to Ali Hanan (Creative Equals) about the DEI backlash and Kian Bakhtiari (The People) about Gen Z trends. Contagious's Alex Jenkins joins to discuss AI and whether we need to rethink what creative bravery means. Recorded live at Most Contagious 2024 in London.

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Lena Roland hosts the fifth and final episode of WARC’s daily podcast from Cannes Lions 2023. Joyce Kigathi, head of strategy, creative and content at Havas Africa, shares her view on WARC’s Future of Strategy debate on the question, “Is popular culture dead?” Anna Hamill shares insights from a week of CMO conversations, while David Tiltman wraps up our Cannes coverage with some highlights from the Creative Impact programme.

Faris Yakob, co-founder of the nomadic creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention, hosts a special three-part podcast series exploring human attention and advertising.

In this second episode, Faris and his guests address how attention is measured and valued, and what this means for the media industry now in the very near future. Faris is joined by former General Mills CMO Ivan Pollard, Lumen Research founder Mike Follett, and Katie Hartley, managing director - product and innovation at Dentsu Data Labs.

WARC Talks the Marketer's Toolkit 2022. In a series of 5 podcasts we will cover the key themes identified in this year's Marketer's Toolkit, next up is Social commerce and the creator economy.
Find out how brands can benefit from working with content creators across various platforms with Ben Grubbs, Founder of Next 10 Ventures and Co-founder of CreatorPlus and Kollyde, Kris Boger, General Manager of UK Sales at TikTok, and Emma Chiu, Global Director at Wunderman Thompson Intelligence.

WARC subscribers can read the full report here or to read the report for free, click here.

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WARC’s Jenny Chan speaks with two top marketers Dhiren Amin (Income Insurance) and Jiunn Shih (Zespri Kiwifruit) to unpack the new Pace Principle report — and explore how these brands are putting twin-pace thinking into practice.

WARC Members can read the Pace Principle here⁠.

If you're yet to subscribe, don't worry - you can also ⁠get a sample report here⁠. 

This week WARC talks creativity and attention with Karen Nelson-Field, CEO and founder of Amplified Intelligence, and Orlando Wood, Chief Innovation Officer at System1 Group. While some organisations have done a huge amount to draw a link between attention and business outcomes in a media context, the creative side of advertising is comparatively under-explored.

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WARC's Lena Roland talks to Chris Baker, founder at Serious Tissues. Discussing how brands can change the world by changing how, and where, people spend their money.

David Tiltman, WARC's SVP Content, is joined by Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, to discuss the launch of a new report on The Future of Media. Part of The Marketer's Toolkit 2023 series, the report covers key trends in advertising investment, audience fragmentation and reform of the media ecosystem. 

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David Tiltman, WARC's SVP Content, is joined by Paul Stringer, managing editor of Research and Insight at WARC to talk about The Future of Measurement report. Discussing the renaissance of marketing mix modelling, cross media measurement and the growing pains in retail media.

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The first in a seven-part series on effectiveness. Hosted by On Strategy’s Fergus O’Carroll, the series kicks off with James Hurman of Previously Unavailable.

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WARC's SVP content David Tiltman speaks to strategist and author, Alex M H Smith about his latest book ‘No Bullsh*t Strategy’. Discussing the good and bad of strategy, why great companies have no competitors, and why there’s no such thing as the right strategy.

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Gregory Grudzinski, Head of Content for WARC Digital Commerce, and Colin Lewis, author of WARC's Retail Media Primer Series discuss the retail media offerings of Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Target and Instacart. The complete Retail Media Primer Series is available to subscribers at warc.com/digital-commerce.

How can marketers prioritise effectiveness in a highly fragmented media landscape? Dr Grace Kite (Magic Numbers) and Tom Roach (Jellyfish) join WARC’s David Tiltman to discuss new strategies to consider.

Congrats to WoMen's Football by Orange, #1 in the WARC Rankings Creative 100!

Gaëtan du Peloux and Youri Guerassimov, co-CCO/CEOs at Marcel Paris, join WARC's Anna Hamill to discuss Orange's ground-breaking campaign supporting the French women's football team.

The WARC Creative 100 Ranking can be viewed in full here. It includes the world’s top 100 awarded campaigns for creativity, top 50 creative agencies, agency networks, brands, advertisers, countries and top holding companies.

The third episode in a seven-part series on effectiveness. Hosted by Fergus O'Carroll, this episode is all about performance versus brand with Jellyfish's Claire Strickett and Tom Roach.

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On day three of Cannes Lions, WARC's Anna Hamill talks to Diageo's Grainne Wafer and Callum McCahon from Born Social about Guinness's brand transformation. WARC's Lena Roland and Mark Pollard from Sweathead discuss the future of strategy, and Oxford University's Andrew Stephen and the Unsterotype Alliance's Sara Denby share new research proving the power of progressive advertising.

WARC’s Cathy Taylor talks with Havas’ Jon Waite and Lumen’s Mike Follett about new attention research that details the power of aggregate attention in delivering results.

• The research, which concentrated on display advertising and was performed in partnership with Brand Metrics, looked at 9,000 brand uplift studies, and 11 years of eye-tracking data, providing scale to the understanding of how attention works. 
• Among other findings, the research showed that aggregate attention time, on a user-by-user basis, should be a key unit of analysis – brands should start looking beyond attention per impression to what the attention value is when individual consumers  see a burst of impressions. 
• It also demonstrated how attention needs differ depending on the outcomes a brand is looking for; upper-funnel metrics like awareness can benefit from multiple hits of small attention, but for campaigns more focused on driving sales, slightly higher average attention with slightly less frequency may be a better approach. 

For more insights into attention, check out the new WARC Guide to Attention.

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New WARC data models potential scenarios for media channels and key global markets as a result of economic upheaval. WARC’s Alex Brownsell and James McDonald go through the numbers.

WARC Subscribers can read the full Q1 2025 Global Ad Forecast update here.

In this first episode of a two-part series, WARC’s SVP of content David Tiltman talks to Caroline Johnson, co-founder at The Business Model Company. Discussing whether the financial relationship between clients and agencies is actively undermining the creation of effective work.

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This week, in Behind the Winning Idea, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of Maersk: Setting a new course for growth, winner of the B2B Grand Prix in this year's WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

Maersk set out to reshape the industry by diversify its offering to become a complete end-to-end logistics provider. We spoke to Dominic Pope, Global Marketing Manager at Maersk and Bryan Hogg, Strategy Director at Havas Media Group to find out more.

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This week, in Behind the Winning Idea, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of Tesco: Unforgettable Bag, winner of the Customer Experience Grand Prix in this year's WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

Applying behavioural economics thinking, Tesco greatly reduced the use of single-use plastic bags. In the 12 months after the campaign, bag reuse rates jumped from 5% to an amazing 60%. We spoke to Azliza Azmel, Corporate Services Director at Tesco Malaysia and Graham Drew, Chief Creative Officer at Grey Group to find out more.

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WARC's SVP of content David Tiltman speakd to LIONS' chief content officer Paul Kemp-Robertson about the Creative Impact content programme, which will be taking place across the 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Later they speak to Devika Bulchandani, Global CEO at Ogilvy about her take on creative effectiveness and what she’s hoping to see at the Festival.

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In this first episode of this year's Marketing Truth series, we are doing a deep dive into a new WARC report, The Multiplier Effect. Analytic Partners, through its ROI Genome project, pools the measurement plans of over 1000 marketers, gleaning insights into what's driving growth. Americas Editor Ann Marie Kerwin talks with SVP Mike Menkes about the pitfalls of depending too much on performance marketing tactics, and how brand building accelerates growth throughout the funnel.

WARC Members get the full report along with practical insights to help CMOs and marketers of every level to apply these ideas to their own work, exemplary case studies, and a deck’s worth of charts to help you make your argument to the CFO. 

If you're yet to subscribe, don't worry - you can also get the full report here.

WARC’s David Tiltman and Alex Brownsell unpack the latest Global Ad Trends report on retail media. They discuss retail media’s ad spend numbers, which retailers are benefitting the most from this growth, and why the most exciting thing about retail media is the data.

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WARC’s new effectiveness research The Multiplier Effect shows how brand equity drives growth. Americas Editor Ann Marie Kerwin sits down with Ken Favaro, BERA’s Chief Strategy Officer and Michael Reh, BERA.ai’s head of data science, to discuss the power of brand equity in effective marketing.

WARC Members get the full report ⁠along with practical insights to help CMOs and marketers of every level to apply these ideas to their own work, exemplary case studies, and a deck’s worth of charts to help you make your argument to the CFO. 

If you're yet to subscribe, don't worry - you can also ⁠get the full report here⁠.

WARC's Rica Facundo discusses new research and strategies unveiled at SXSW that will help marketers become more effective.

Featuring interviews from Wavemaker's James Boardman and Saïd Business School's Felipe Thomaz about why understanding “infuenceability” closes the effectiveness gap, WPP's Katie Rigg Smith on why brands need to scenario plan to tap into the changing demographic of Australia, and VML's Sarah Bailey on how to move away from creating dull advertising.

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In this episode of CMO Conversations, WARC's Anna Hamill talks to LVMH's Global Brand Officer, Mathilde Delhoume, about the luxury company's role in the 2024 Paris Olympics, blending brand heritage with modernity, the power of building long-term brands, and much more.

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This week WARC talks conscious media investment with Jake Dubbins, Co-Founder & Co-Chair at Conscious Advertising Network, Belinda J Smith, CEO, Americas at m/SIX, and Clare Melford, Co-founder & Executive Director at The Global Disinformation Index. What is conscious media investment, why does it matter, and what does it mean for the way we think about planning media?

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WARC’s Anna Hamill and Sam Peña-Taylor discuss three of the biggest narratives shaping earnings season: how the US election and China’s economic downturn are impacting brands, and the road ahead for Starbucks.

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WARC's David Tiltman speaks to Mark Ritson, founder of Marketing Week's Mini MBA about his recent talk at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Discussing why creativity is not enough, where strategy is going wrong and what excites him for the future.

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WARC Strategy's content director Lena Roland talks to Anna Hamill, senior editor for brands about the latest WARC guide to marketing’s impact on pricing. Discussing the role of brand equity in pricing, the importance of a strong price-value equation, and how some brands undermine their pricing power.

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The first episode in a three-part series exploring the most important trends influencing global consumers. WARC's Rica Facundo talks to Michael Patent, founder and president of the Culture Group and Emmanuel Sabbagh, Chief Strategy Officer TBWA\ Asia. Discussing the re-emergence of live events, and the rising temperatures across Asia Pacific.

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In an exclusive podcast interview for WARC’s Marketer’s Toolkit, Grant McKenzie - Chief Marketing Officer, Europe and International at Asahi - talks to WARC’s Anna Hamill about sports sponsorship, media fragmentation, moving on from gender stereotypes, and the impact of climate change on the beer industry.

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In an exclusive podcast interview for WARC’s Marketer’s Toolkit, Mondelez’s Global Senior Vice-President for Consumer Experience and Digital Commerce, Jonathan Halvorson, spoke to WARC’s Anna Hamill about pricing strategies through inflation, the artificial intelligence revolution, and brand purpose in a polarized world.

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This week WARC talks marketing and the cost of living crisis with Ananda Roy, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth Insights at IRI, and Louise Martell, CSO at Yonder Media. Discusses the cost of living crisis and how marketers and businesses can respond.

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WARC’s Amy Rodgers talks to Annie Smith, Head of Content - Insight and Advisory at Cannes Lions, and Mastercard’s CMO Raja Rajamannar.
Discussing the State of Creativity report, including how marketers - both brand-side and agency-side - are feeling about the state of creativity within their organisations, some challenges they are facing, and looking at what programs they have internally to produce creative work that is also effective.

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This week WARC Strategy's Head of Content Lena Roland talks gaming with Oliver Feldwick, Head of Innovation at The&Partnership, and Colleen Nuffer, Senior Director of Integrated Planning at EA.

They discuss the upcoming opportunities in this space that brands need to know.

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In this special episode David Tiltman is joined by JP Castlin, a strategic management consultant, and James Hankins, Global VP Marketing Strategy and Planning at Sage, who have co-authored a new WARC report, ‘The gravity of e-commerce’. As marketers come to terms with the rapidly changing world of digital commerce, they may need to return to the four Ps in response. The full report is available to WARC subscribers at this link.

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WARC’s SVP content David Tiltman talks about the Blueprint for Brand Growth with Kantar’s Jane Ostler, EVP, Global Thought Leadership. Discussing the three growth accelerators outlined in the book. Read the Blueprint for Brand Growth on kantar.com/blueprint.

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This week we're joined by Mirela Dufrayer, marketing leader, Latin America at WGSN who contributed to the recent Spotlight on how Brazil's consumers are responding to volatile times. Discussing World Cup optimism, political polarization and how businesses are dealing with consumers spending less.

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WARC's David tiltman and Aditya Kisore talk about the key takaways from this year's Marketer's Toolkit report. Discussing capitalising on the economic reset, why customer service is at an all time low, and the unexplored opportunity with atomised consumers.

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This week WARC's Alex Brownsell talks to dentsu’s Dan Calladine, head of media futures, about media trends in 2024. Discussing generative, monetization and a growing uniformity across platforms, and the role of DE&I and sustainability in media.

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Welcome back! This week WARC talks 2022 media trends with Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures at Carat Global, and author of Dentsu’s ‘Reimagining Next’ media trends report.

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On the final day of Cannes Lions, WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin discusses marketing's relevancy problem with Najoh Tita-Reid and Leonid Sudakov from Mars Petcare. McCann's Grand Effie winner, Jamie Peate shares insights on why humour is back. Finally, WARC's David Tiltman share his highlights from the Creative Impact track.

The third and final episode in a special three-part series that looks at creative effectiveness through the lens of the winners of 2022's WARC Awards for Effectiveness. In this episode we discuss brands in culture and how that approach was used to capture the attention of target audiences.

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Following WARC Advisory and Edelman’s Beyond the Buzz report, Tom Hehir and Jay Gallagher from Edelman join WARC’s Aditya Kishore to discuss how earned media can drive greater effectiveness. With advice on media abundance, attention fragmentation and fame, hear how marketers can navigate the nuanced balance between Earned, Paid and Owned.

This week WARC’s Cathy Taylor and Ann Marie Kerwin look at how American marketers are getting started with Gen AI tools. Discussing definitions, benefits and pitfalls, and advice for getting started.

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Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, and James McDonald, WARC’s Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, examine the latest global ad spend forecasts and the impact of the economic slowdown.

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Creative Business Transformation involves the weight of the whole business, but it often starts with an individual who leads. For Jane Wakely, Chief Marketing Officer at PepsiCo, turning ideas into meaningful transformation is about moving people. In this episode, we will discuss "On the Cutting Edge" the Deloitte X LIONS report with Maggie Gross, Head of Strategy and Brand at Deloitte, and then look at the practical steps Jane is taking to drive transformation that creates value for everyone involved.
Read "On the Cutting Edge" here

WARC’s Alex Brownsell talks about a new cross-industry initiative that pledges to make the advertising world a better, more productive, more creatively-driven place. Discussing this project with one of the co-founders, Brian Jacobs, Denise Turner, CEO at Route Research, and consultant and author Michael Farmer.

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Congrats to Nosotras Women Connecting and PHD Costa Rica, winners of the 2025 Media 100. Marysela Zomora and PHD's Alan Vainrub join WARC's Anna Hamill to discuss their against-the-odds campaign to ensure free menstrual products in Costa Rica's schools, passing essential legislation.

Find the full WARC Media 100 Rankings here. 

All the latest from day two of Cannes Lions 2022.

Host Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, is joined by David Tiltman and Imaad Ahmed to talk about the collision of marketing and digital commerce - a hot topic at this year’s festival - and reveal fresh research from Creative X and Analytic Partners. Plus Anna Hamill provides insights into the key priorities among CMOs in Cannes.

In this third episode of WARC’s Marketing Truths series, Ann Marie Kerwin, Americas Editor, and Jim DeLash, Omnichannel Marketing Director at GSK, discuss how emotional campaigns are strongly linked to effectiveness, with effective campaigns scoring higher on positive emotions such as enjoyment and involvement.

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This week US Commissioning Editor Cathy Taylor discusses marketing's role in building sustainability behaviors with executives at two B Corps: Pip Cross, Sustainability Lead at Barkley, and Mikey Sadowski, General Manager, Global PR & Communications, at Intrepid Travel.

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The first in a special three-part series that looks at creative effectiveness through the lens of the winners of 2022's WARC Awards for Effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss how brands from different sectors can lean in on creativity to deliver impactful ideas. Featuring campaigns from Maersk, Pepsi and Deutsche Bahn.

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Colin Lewis, founder of RetailMedia.works, speaks with Gregory Grudzinski of WARC Digital Commerce about the interest in retail media at the recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the trends he sees shaping retail media in the year to come.

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The second in a four-part series interviewing CMOs. WARC's Anna Hamill is joined by Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital & Marketing Officer at L'Oréal. Discussing opportunities in tech innovation, the shift from followers to creator content, and the commitment to sustainability.

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The third episode in a special three-part series that looks at the winners of the WARC Awards, highlighting work that worked and asking what you can learn from it, particularly from a creative effectiveness point of view. Discussing Lay’s democratising technology to help farmers fight climate change, Vanish’s Me, My Autism & I, and how Sage took business software from B2B to human-to-human.

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This week we're joined by WARC's Alex Brownsell, Senior Editor, Media, Lena Roland, Managing Editor, WARC.com, and Sam Peña-Taylor, Reporter. The team discusses the IPA's recent EffWorks conference and the three main takeaways from it.

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Discussing the biggest trends set to shape media planning and the wider ecosystem this year; planning in the era of abundance, the rewiring of search, and commerce media can help build brands. WARC's Paul Stringer talks to Billy Ryan, head of analytics and effectiveness at the7stars.

WARC members can read The Future of Media 2025 here and read Paul Stringer’s introduction to the report here.

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Alex Brownsell, senior editor for media and editor of the WARC Guide to the future of identity. Alex takes us through the implication of Google postponing its ban on third-party cookies, the best way for brands to avoid any data disruptions, and what the future of identity will really look like.

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The economy is hurting, and so are ad spend forecasts. WARC's Catherine Driscoll and Anna Hamill discuss how brands can stay effective on a low budget.

This week, in Behind the Winning Idea, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of Trelleborg: SmartPort, awarded a Gold in B2B in this year's WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

Trelleborg repositioned itself from equipment manufacturer to smart technology solutions provider with the launch of its SmartPort brand, and drove change in the global marine market. We spoke to Richard Hepworth, business unit president at Trelleborg Marine & Infrastructure and Tom Stein, chairman and chief client officer at Stein IAS to find out more.

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In this episode of CMO Conversations, WARC's Anna Hamill talks to Samsung UK's Chief Customer Officer, Deborah Honig, about building ecosystem brands, why AI needs to be helpful, diversity in tech and much, much more.

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This week we're joined by WARC's David Tiltman, VP of content, to talk us through the recent white paper launched by WARC. David discusses whether brand matters in digital commerce, balancing brand-building and performance, and how many assumptions around brand and performance will be challenged in the future. Read the full white paper here. 

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WARC’s Rica Facundo discusses the learnings from SXSW Sydney with WPP Australia and New Zealand’s President Rose Herceg, and Chief Strategy Officer Katie Rigg-Smith.
Why should we invest in creativity, and what lessons can marketers take with them to fight for creativity in the boardroom, and cultivate it with their teams?

In this episode we also hear from Severine Vauleon, Global VP at LUX, Josh Faulks, CEO at AANA, Michelle Martinis, Head of Marketing at National Australia Bank, Stephen Connor, Managing Director at Volvo Australia, Pete Randeria, Director of Global Innovation at Treasury Premium Brands, David Dahan, Managing Director at WPP@Unilever, Gavin Gibson, Managing Partner at Mindshare, David Redhill, ex-CMO of Deloitte, Sam Evans, Head of Digital Marketing and E-commerce at Modus Beer, Toby Talbot, Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy.

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WARC’s Asia editor Rica Facundo talks to L'Oréal’ Lex Bradshaw-Zanger, CDMO SAPMENA Region about L'Oréal’s approach to brand building in the era of digital. Discussing beauty tech, applying marketing fundamentals, and what we can learn from the dynamic digital landscape of APAC.

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This week WARC talks writing better briefs with Pieter-Paul von Weiler and Matt Davies, founders of BetterBriefs. The brief - it's arguably the most important yet overlooked tool in the advertising and marketing industry.

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Alex Brownsell, WARC Media’s head of content, and Paul Stringer, managing editor of Research & Insights talk about the Future of Measurement 2024 Report. Discussing third-party cookies, hurdles in holistic measurement, and closing the sustainability gap.

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The first of five daily episodes of the WARC Podcast from Cannes Lions 2023. David Tiltman, WARC's SVP Content, is joined by Effectiveness Partnership founding partner Gurdeep Puri to discuss new research into creative effectiveness. Wunderman Thompson CSO Ellie Bamford previews the upcoming Future of Strategy debate. And John Bizzell, WARC's Awards Lead, highlights some winners from the WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

Marketing consultants Peter Field and Rob Brittain, and Professor Karen Nelson-Field, founder and CEO of Amplified Intelligence, join Alex Brownsell, WARC Media’s Head of Content, to discuss a new report published by the Advertising Council Australia analysing the ability of a media platform to amplify or undermine a campaign’s creative strength.

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Lydia Amoah (The Black Pound Report), Cass Naylor (Outvertising) and Ndu Uchea (Word On The Curb) join WARC's Anna Hamill to share insights from research exploring the often-overlooked consumer impact of diverse audiences in the UK.

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This week, in Behind the Winning Idea, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of McDonald's: The Travis Scott Meal, winner of the Collaboration & Culture Grand Prix in this year's WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

McDonald's had several initiatives in the lead up to it's now-defined brand platform of 'famous orders' which ultimately led to the Travis Scott meal. We spoke to Jennifer Healan, VP of U.S. Marketing at McDonald's and Tass Tsitsopoulos, Planning Director at Wieden+Kennedy New York to find out more.

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As tariffs, and fear of recession, roil the global economy, Koen Pauwels, distinguished professor of marketing at Northeastern University in Boston, discusses paths forward for brands and consumers with WARC US Commissioning Editor Cathy Taylor.

This week WARC talks fragmentation with Oliver Feldwick, head of innovation at The&Partnership and Ana Andjelic, a global C-level executive. Discussing the challenges and opportunities around fragmentation.

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WARC's Paul Stringer talks to Wayne Blodwell, co-founder and CEO at Impact Media and Sascha Eder, CEO and co-founder at NewtonX. Discussing third-party cookies, programmatic transparency, sustainability, and investment trends between walled gardens and open web advertising.

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Today we’re summarising the biggest talking points from this year in media. WARC’s David Tiltman and Alex Brownsell discuss Meta’s remarkable resurgence as a force in the global ad market, the fragmentation of attention measurement, and some important new thinking on reach.

Listen to the other episodes mentioned here: Global ad spend outlook 2023/24, ESOV, attention and creative effectiveness, New thinking in reach.

WARC’s America's editor Ann Marie Kerwin talks to creative marketing strategist and author Michael Fanuele about the tension inherent in balancing brand and performance marketing needs for start-up companies. These companies are under tremendous pressure to show growth as soon as possible, but does leaning on performance tactics mean that they're in danger of sacrificing the opportunity to establish their brand identity?

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As part of WARC’s ongoing coverage of masculinity in crisis, US Commissioning Editor Cathy Taylor talks with Alejandro Fieccone, global head of brand for Dove Men+Care at Unilever, and Gary J. Nix, founder and chief strategy officer at the Brandarchist. Discussing the crisis in masculinity, and how brands can drive positive change in how men see themselves.

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All the latest from day four of Cannes Lions 2022.

Host Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, is joined in the Palais des Festivals by WARC editors Lena Roland and Anna Hamill to talk about this morning’s Future of Strategy sessions, and recap yesterday’s presentation from Jenni Romaniuk, Research Professor at Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

In this episode of CMO Conversations, WARC's Anna Hamill talks to LEGO's global chief product and marketing officer, Julia Goldin, about how LEGO stays relevant across generations, the gaming boom, brand safety in digital worlds and much more.

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This week, in Behind the Winning Idea and our last episode of 2021, we explore the strategy, execution and outcome of Persil: Dirt for Good, awarded Gold in Brand Purpose and a Sustainability Award in this year's WARC Awards for Effectiveness.

Persil grew sales and consideration among households in the UK by evolving its Dirt is Good brand platform to communicate its new green brand purpose and the actions it was taking to address environmental concerns. We spoke to Tati Lindenberg, Vice President of Marketing, Dirt Is Good at Unilever and Rachael Stets, Global Strategy Director at MullenLowe to find out more.

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The third episode in a three-part series exploring the most important trends influencing global consumers. WARC's Catherine Driscoll talks to Chris Beer, senior data journalist at GWI, and Ananda Roy, SVP global thought leadership Europe at Circana. Discussing the improved positivity in consumer spending and the resurgence of live events in Europe.

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WARC’s David Tiltman, SVP Content, and Aditya Kishore, Insight Director unpack the Marketer’s Toolkit 2024. They discuss political polarisation, generative AI’s evolution into content creation, and masculinity in crisis. Interested to learn more, click here to read the report.

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WARC’s managing editor of research and insight, Paul Stringer talks to the founders of Evidenza.ai Jon Lombardo and Peter Weinberg about synthetic data. Discussing what synthetic research is, how synthetic data will impact marketing, what marketers can do to mitigate any risks of working with this data.

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WARC Media’s Head of content Alex Brownsell talks to Ailsa MacKenzie, group strategy director at Global, Sarah Harding, insight director at GroupM OOH, and Pierre Bouvard, chief insights officer at Cumulus Media and Westwood One. Does attention matter in all media channels? And, if so, what impact does attention have in environments where visual content is less central to the overall audience experience?

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Today we’re unpacking the two most important themes from the 2024 Marketer’s Toolkit for marketers in the APAC region.

WARC’s Asia Editor, Rica Facundo talks to Trezelene Chan, head of sustainability, APAC, Kantar and Seema Punwani, Partner, R3. Discussing why its important to invest in local communities and how AI will shape marketing strategy in Asia.

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The second of three daily episodes of the WARC Podcast from EffWorks 2023. Anna Hamill, WARC’s senior editor for brands, is joined by marketing effectiveness legends Les Binet and Peter Field to discuss the state of the industry 10 years on from their groundbreaking research study, ‘The Long and the Short of it’.

Fiona Blades, President and Chief Experience Officer at MESH Experience explains the importance of owned media channels in the marketing mix.

Finally, Pawan Marella, Strategy Director at Unilever and Nilam Atodaria, Global Product Director at The GOAT Agency, talk about all things retail media, social commerce and influencers.

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This week WARC talks about the changing role of reach in media planning with Rich Kirk, Chief Strategy Officer at Zenith UK, and Sam Dias, Head of Data Sciences for Publicis Media. Reach has been a vital pillar of media strategies for decades, however, this orthodoxy is being questioned in light of an increasingly fragmented media market.

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This week we're joined by WARC's James McDonald, Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting and the editor of the recent Global Ad Trends report which looks at the advertising investment outlook for 2022. James explores the extraordinary growth of 2021, the variation between categories, and e-commerce as a growth driver.

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Alex Brownsell hosts the third of WARC's daily podcasts from Cannes Lions 2023. We hear about a brand new whitepaper on 'Culture of Creative Effectiveness' from WARC Insight Director Adi Kishore. R/GA's Yael Cesarkas shares her perspective on the AI debate raging up and down the Croisette, and McCann Worldgroup Global CSO Harjot Singh drops in to talk about purpose and sustainability.