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Geoffrey Precourt is Warc's US editor. He reports from key events across North America, recently including ad:tech (New York), ANA Masters of Marketing (Orlando), American Magazines (San Francisco), ESOMAR Congress (Montreal) and ARF Audience Measurement (New York). You can read all his papers below.

Prior to joining Warc in July 2008, Geoffrey held senior editorial roles at titles including Strategy + Business, Point, Smart Business and Fortune, and edited the book CMO Thought Leaders.


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1.
Method Cleaning Products: The New “Method” Marketing Model
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
The presentation of Eric Ryan, co-founder of Method Products, to the ANA's 2009 Masters of Marketing annual conference is the focus of this report by Warc's US editor, Geoffrey Precourt. Ryan outlines ...

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P&G and Walmart Stand Up for ANA Family-Programming Effort
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
Reporting from the ANA's Masters of Marketing conference, Warc's US Editor, Geoffrey Precourt covers a panel session about the ANA's Alliance for Family Entertainment initiative which looks to promote ...

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McDonald's, Walmart and IBM: Marketing Brings Three Icons Back from the Brink
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
Reporting from the ANA's annual Masters of Marketing conference, Warc's US editor, Geoffrey Precourt relays presentations from McDonald's, Walmart and IBM - all of which focus on how these iconic bran ...

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Mobiles, Clouds and Connectivity - The Head of Google Predicts a Marketing Revolution
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
Reporting from the ANA's annual Masters of Marketing conference, Warc's US Editor Geoffrey Precourt covers the presentation of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. Schmidt predicts that marketing is about to ...

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ESOMAR Online-Panel Panelists Concur: Market Research Still Has a Pulse
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
Warc's US Editor, Geoffrey Precourt, reports from the wrap-up panel of ESOMAR's Online Research conference. Each of the four panelists (Reg Baker, COO, Market Strategies International; Monique Morden, ...

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The ARF Response to "Life-Support" Threat: Online Research Quality Council
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
The establishment and early findings of the Advertising Research Foundation's Online Research Quality Council (ORWC) are described in this report by WARC's US editor, Geoffrey Precourt, from ESOMAR's ...

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The Global Web Index: A Map for Social Media Trends
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
The topline findings of The Global Web Index (GWI), an analysis of Web behavior and social media from 16 key markets and 32,000 consumer surveys, is the focus of this report from ESOMAR's Online Resea ...

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Market Research Seeks a "Blogger Blueprint"
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
This paper summarises a conference presentation about different types of bloggers given at ESOMAR's Online Research event by GfK NOP Social Research's Josephine Hansom. It describes a segmentation of ...

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Mullen Pushes Social Marketing into Marketing Mainstream
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
A “Creativity in the Age of Social Media” Webinar presentation to the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) by Edward Boches, chief creative officer/chief social media officer for Boston ...

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Western Union Marketing: Multicultural in 80,000 Different Ways
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
The rationale, strategy and execution of the first global advertising campaign by the money transfer company, Western Union, is the focus of this report from the Association of National Advertisers' 2 ...

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Ford Digs Deep for Multicultural Marketing Opportunities
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
Ford's focus on multicultural marketing is the subject of this report from the Association of National Advertisers' 2009 Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference by Warc's US editor, Geoffre ...

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Hip-Hop's 30th Birthday: Brands and the Seven Ciphers of Afro-American Urban Culture
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
The transition of Hip-Hop from musical movement to major urban culture - and the opportunities and challenges it presents to marketers and brands - is the focus of this presentation to the Association ...

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JCPenney builds on 180 years of history to reach the modern consumer
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
The importance of creating an emotional bond with consumers, over and above tactical promotions and price cuts, is the main argument of this presentation by Ruby Anik of JCPenney, to the 2009 Associat ...

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From National to Local: Hewlett-Packard's targeted multi-cultural marketing strategy
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
The need for brands to take a targeted approach to multicultural marketing if they want to genuinely connect with different groups of consumers is the key argument of this address by Engelina Jaspers ...

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The ANA's Ten Marketing "Musts" for the Next 100 Years
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
In his opening remarks to the Association of National Advertisers' Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference, ANA president/ceo Bob Liodice delivered a ten-point list of marketing "musts ...

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Coca-Cola and ANA members rethink agency evaluation
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, October 2009
In this article, Geoffrey Precourt, Warc’s US Editor, reports from an Association of National Advertisers’ Agency/Client Forum at New York Advertising Week 2009. He focuses on a presentation by Coca-C ...

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Social Media Trends in the United States
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, November 2009
The topline trends of US social media usage is detailed in this article, including differences in user profiles between Facebook and LinkedIn and how active social networkers spend less time using tra ...

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Verizon Answers Call of Online Customer Service
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
Verizon's use of online forums as customer service and engagement tools is the focus of this report from New York Advertising Week by Warc's US Editor, Geoffrey Precourt. Mark Studness, Verizon's dire ...

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Digital Transparency: A Call for an Advertiser's Online Bill of Rights
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
The call by Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, for an Online Bill of Rights for Advertisers is the focus of this report from New York Advertising Week by Warc's U ...

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Ethnicity in Advertising-Beyond The White House
Casey Farley, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
A panel discussion session on advertising to ethnic and minority groups, sponsored by the Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF), is the focus of this report from New York Advertising Week. The pane ...

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R/GA New York: Fueling the Creative Revolution in Interactive Advertising
Casey Farley, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
The ground-breaking approach to digital advertising of the agency R/GA is the focus of this report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau's IMIXX conference during New York Advertising Week. Its anti ...

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How Xerox Tapped Unlikely B2B Emotions
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
The presentation by Barbara Basney, global advertising director of Xerox, to the Engagement Council meeting of the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) during New York City's 2009 Advertising Week is ...

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Reaching America's Minorities: Toyota Camry's pursuit of the Afro-American audience and opinions on what Latinas want
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
Toyota's pursuit of the young, female Afro-American market with its Camry model is the lead focus of this article by Geoffrey Precourt. He reports from the Advertising Research Foundation's Multicultu ...

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General Mills - Listening to the Future of Social Media
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
General Mills' increasing use of social media as a marketing and research platform is the subject of this report from New York Advertising Week by Warc's US editor, Geoffrey Precourt. Heather D. Maxwe ...

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Ashton Kutcher: From "'70s Show" Goofball to 21st Century Digital Entrepreneur
Casey Farley, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
The 1970's sitcom actor turned social media marketer, Ashton Kutcher, is the focus of this report from New York Advertising Week. Speaking at the Interactive Bureau's 2009 MIXX Conference, Kutcher spe ...

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The Goodby House of Poetry: How an old agency adapted to a new world
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
Jeff Goodby, the co-founder and co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners describes the 25-year-old San Francisco agency's transition from traditional advertising to new forms of communication ...

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New York Advertising Week PwC Panels: Managing Today and Tomorrow
Casey Farley, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
Two panels of media experts, ad-agency managers and a leading marketer offer a variety of perspectives on coping with a new marketing universe in this report from two PricewaterhouseCoopers "Adve ...

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New York Advertising Week Challenges the Post-Recessionist Marketer
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
Reporting from New York Advertising Week, Geoffrey Precourt covers a Leadership panel session on marketing in the economic recovery. Laura Desmond, CEO of Starcom MediaVest, foresees a slow recovery, ...

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Wurtzel Seeks to Grow New Measurement Group
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
This report from New York Advertising Week covers the Advertising Research Foundation's "360 Media and Marketing Super Council" in which Alan Wurtzel, NBC Universal president/research and me ...

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Trends from shortlisted entries to the 2009 Jay Chiat Awards
Geoffrey Precourt, Warc Exclusive, September 2009
In this paper, Geoffrey Precourt, WARC’s US Editor, examines the trends demonstrated by the short-listed entries to the 2009 Jay Chiat Awards. One of the main discernable traits displayed by these cam ...

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