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24 April 2018
MIAMI BEACH: Clients, tech companies and consumers are all potential “frenemies” that are challenging ad agencies, according to Ken Auletta, a renowned writer and journalist for The New Yorker.
Opinion
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Geoffrey Precourt, April 2018
Ken Auletta has put the advertising industry in the crosshairs in his new book. At the 4A’s (American Association of Advertising Agencies) 2018 Accelerate Conference, The New Yorker journalist was tackled by Bill Koenigsberg, president/CEO of Horizon Media.
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Oliver Feldwick, WARC Best Practice, April 2018
Explains how digital channels, when used well, can play a fundamental and complementary role in brand building.
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16 April 2018
LONDON: Adland is digesting the implications of the unexpected weekend resignation of Sir Martin Sorrell from his position as chief executive officer of WPP, with speculation that the world’s largest ad business could be broken up and that ...
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ANA Media conference, March 2018
Procter & Gamble, the consumer goods giant, has been at the forefront of driving change in the digital-marketing space, and has further ambitions to pursue in this space.
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12 April 2018
GLOBAL: Chinese consumers are more likely to use sharing economy platforms for holiday homes or car rentals than American or British consumers, according to a new survey, but in all three countries reducing risk has the potential to increase ...
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Sam Peña-Taylor, Event Reports, Advertising Week Europe, March 2018
Guinness, the Diageo stout brand, has embraced innovation at every level of its business, with lessons from its products and ad development.
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, 4A's Accelerate, April 2018
The 4A's (American Association of Advertising Agencies) is seeking to find new ways of helping agencies, and their clients, progress in a rapidly-changing marketing universe.
Case Study
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Shashank Lanjekar, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Innovation, 2018
Sportswear manufacturer adidas launched a campaign to support disabled athletes in India.
Opinion
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Paul Davies, April 2018
Successful marketing transformation projects follow eight key rules. Paul Davies, Managing Partner Asia Pacific at The Observatory International, says too many schemes are failing to do so.
Case Study
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ARF Ogilvy Awards, Gold, 2018
Truth Initiative, a nonprofit tobacco control organization, raised awareness of the tobacco industry’s targeting towards young, low-income groups by launching a campaign at the Grammys in the US.
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21 March 2018
NEW DELHI: A combination of a fast-developing economy, modernising infrastructure and increasingly aspirational consumers means that there is a hunger for new brands in India.
Opinion
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Lena Roland, March 2018
With the disruptions of Amazon and other platform companies, marketing is shifting away from communications and advertising, and toward the design of experience.
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21 March 2018
LONDON: Open Banking could deliver the greatest shake up to the financial services sector in living memory, an industry figure has argued, leading to innovative partnerships between the traditional banking sector and a new wave of digital ...
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Vincent Rousselet, Market Leader, Quarter 2, 2018, pp. 28-31
Examines the potential of artificial intelligence in business and of its impact on human society in the long term.
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Jem Fawcus, WARC Exclusive, March 2018
Open Banking, a concept quickly becoming reality in 2018, enables individuals to grant companies access to their financial data so that businesses can develop and provide new and improved products and services.
Opinion
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Lucy Aitken, March 2018
Remie Abdo, Director of Strategic Planning, TBWA\RAAD Group and the winner of the Grand Prix in the 2017 WARC Prize for MENA Strategy is judging the 2018 Prize.
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20 March 2018
PALM DESERT, CA: Brands must adapt to a marketing universe where “data-enriched value” from direct consumer relationships becomes a key element of the strategic mix, according to Randall Rothenberg, President/CEO of the Interactive ...
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Louise Ainsworth, Market Leader, Quarter 2, 2018, pp. 48-50
British companies must renew their focus on innovation if they do not want to stagnate in the long term.
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Russell Davies, Market Leader, Quarter 2, 2018, pp. 57-57
Offers four tips for improving productivity within creative industries.
Research Paper
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Rob Jayson, Martin P. Block, and Yingying Chen, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2018, pp. 77-89
Research is ongoing about how investment in paid media and digital owned media drives changes in brand sales.
Opinion
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Sonia Marguin, March 2018
In the last 12 months, the media and marketing sector has gone through a period of dramatic unrest. The complexity of the digital media supply chain, ad fraud and brand safety have made brands question the platforms they use, and the media brands they chose to partner with, writes Sonia Marguin.
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, IAB 2018 Annual Leadership Meeting, February 2018
"Direct" brands, which sell products directly to consumers, are transforming various product categories and threaten to undermine the status of traditional market leaders.
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15 March 2018
PALM DESERT, CA: Away, the direct-to-consumer luggage company, is applying its innovative ethos to everything from digital retail to physical stores and a branded magazine as it seeks to engage consumers and build relationships.
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Krysia McKechnie, Event Reports, Digitalks Conference, January 2018
All the necessary factors are in place for social commerce to take off in the Middle East: there is high smartphone penetration and a young population which spends a lot of time on social media.