Article
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WARC Best Practice, April 2019
Explores the value of both salience and differentiation, the importance of the latter is often disagreed on by marketers.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, December 2018
This article outlines various theories of brand growth, including the currently popular theory developed by the late Professor Andrew Ehrenberg; his and other theories are presented.
News
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15 May 2019
Creative messages still typically require “budget, exposure, and the scale” to make the desired impact among consumers, as true viral successes remain extremely unusual.
Article
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ANA Brand Masters, February 2019
Pedigree, the dog food brand owned by Mars, has become a creative powerhouse through a nuanced, deliberate approach to engaging consumers.
Article
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WARC Evidence, May 2019
Addresses whether brand loyalty matters, how to best measure it and if the rules of brand loyalty are changing.
News
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25 April 2019
Many businesses believe that membership and subscription models will be crucial to future growth but two new reports indicate that most are a long way from harnessing their potential.
Article
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ARF AUDIENCEXSCIENCE, April 2019
Les Binet, an expert in marketing effectiveness, has conducted research that addresses many of the common challenges and misunderstandings that face brands.
Article
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Brooke Hemphill, Event Reports, ad:tech Sydney, March 2019
Is mass personalisation the future of brand growth or the foe? Thinkerbell’s Adam Ferrier and PHD’s Stewart Gurney debate.
Article
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WARC Evidence, February 2019
Looks at the long and short term consequences of a brand going dark and whether its best to cut budgets or keep advertising in a recession.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, February 2019
Explains the benefits of targeting and reach and explains key differences, such as how tight targeting can benefit short-term activation campaigns, whilst reach can be favourable for long-term brand-growth strategies.
Article
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Sue Mizera and Alessandra Cotugno, WARC Exclusive, January 2019
Puts the spotlight on digital-first start-ups, by identifying the common characteristics that make brands such as Glossier, the cosmetics brand, and Dollar Shave Club, the razor brand, so successful.
Research Paper
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Andrew Curry and Joe Ballantyne, WPP Atticus Awards, Highly commended, 2018
Details how, in a world of slowing growth, companies will no longer be lifted by a rising tide of prosperity, they have to find their own routes to growth in a difficult environment.
Article
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Gareth Price, WPP Atticus Awards, Winner, 2018
The push for quick returns, with pressure from both investors and company management, is jeopardising brands' ability to deliver long-term growth – but forward-thinking organisations could solve this self-defeating cycle, writes Gareth Price, senior planner at J. Walter Thompson London.
Article
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Orlando Wood, WARC Webinars, January 2019
Orlando Wood, chief innovation officer at System 1 Group, shares how brands can predict the market share growth associated with advertising over the long-term.
Article
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Danyl Bosomworth, Admap, January 2019
Discusses how DTC brands create brand salience through a persistent and purposeful brand experience, rather than pure ad-driven front of mind brand recollection.
Article
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Andrew Geoghegan, WARC Webinars, November 2018
Andrew Geoghegan, global head of consumer planning at Diageo, shares how storytelling and data have worked together and led to success for Diageo.
Article
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WARC Evidence, November 2018
Helps marketers justify marketing investment to the c-suite by looking at the types of campaigns that are most profitable, the consequences of cutting budgets and how to command a price premium.
Article
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Stephen Whiteside, WARC Exclusive, September 2018
Research from the CMO Council, the executive network, and Deloitte, the consultancy, studied the habits of marketers that have proved effective at driving growth.
Opinion
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Phil Gault, September 2018
Charities are missing opportunities by thinking in terms of legacy channels and fundraising methods, argues Phil Gault.
Opinion
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Sam Peña-Taylor, August 2018
Following its most recent earnings call, Apple is now worth a trillion dollars. A former creative director of the company believes its recent history has been too “vanilla”, but is vanilla, in fact, effective? Last week, Apple, the maker of the iPhone and the first ever company to be worth a trillion-dollars, announced its quarterly results.
News
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30 July 2018
CANNES: Companies that successfully manage to integrate creativity and data enjoy a “two times difference in revenue growth”, according to research by McKinsey, the management consultancy.
News
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06 July 2018
SYDNEY: Australian marketers are focused on increasing sales revenues and building customer engagement at the expense of brand building, according to a new Facebook report.
Article
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2018
A study by McKinsey & Company, the management consultancy, discovered that combining data and creativity can yield powerful benefits for brands.
News
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19 June 2018
CANNES: A combination of creativity, disruption and great advertising can grow brand value at far faster rates than any of these factors can do in isolation, according to a new analysis by Kantar Millward Brown.
Research Paper
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ARF Experiential Learning, AUDIENCEXSCIENCE, June 2018
Details a unique research design approach created by SevenOne Media, which draws on a comparison between targeting and mass marketing.
