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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ANA Media Conference, March 2017.
This event report outlines how Verizon, the telecoms group, is seeking to enhance its media strategy.
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Alan Cox, Jim Power and Chris Johns, Research on WARC, April 2017
This report provides evidence of how advertising - with an estimated global spend of $542 billion in 2016 - plays a crucial role in driving national economies and generating growth.
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Brooke Hemphill, WARC Exclusive, February 2017
The article explores how the Australian advertising industry is tackling ongoing challenges around transparency.
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Janet Hull and Bart Michels, Market Leader, Quarter 1, 2017, pp. 48-49
This article reports on the findings of Effectiveness Week 2016, an IPA event that brought together senior marketers and decision-makers from both agencies and clients, and examines the opportunities it provided.
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Patrick Barwise and Thomas Barta, Market Leader, Quarter 1, 2017, pp. 28-31
This article examines why marketers often are not seen as important in a company and how they can become company leaders through developing leadership skills.
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08 December 2016
SAN JOSE, CA: There is an increasing expectation among the C suite that chief marketing officers (CMOs) will drive growth and create business value, but a new study suggests that CMOs themselves are uncertain as to how they can best deliver on ...
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MRS Awards, Finalist, International Research , 2016
This paper provides an overview of the Annual Global CEO Survey by PwC, the professional services group which, having run for 20 years, examines how CEOs respond to prolonged disruption in the market.
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Brian Carruthers, Event Reports, IAB Engage, October 2016
This article reports ten facts about CMOs that agencies wouldn't necessarily know, with the aim of shining a light on running the public arm of massive organisations in the UK and beyond.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, ANA Masters of Marketing, October 2016
This article outlines three pressing issues for marketers to resolve, based on the views of Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at Procter & Gamble.
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Jon Puleston, Market Leader, Quarter 4, 2016, pp. 13-13
This article asks how groups of people make decisions about the future accurately, suggesting ways in which boardroom decisions can be improved with a little science.
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Catherine Moger Rickwood, Caroline Smiley, ESOMAR, Congress, New Orleans, September 2016
This paper explains how the US-based Delta Air Lines introduced Snackables, a new report format, in order to change the perception of research within the organisation and provide increased value, without increased research spend.
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Scott Brenman, WPP Atticus Awards, Joint Winner, Branding and Identity, 2016
This essay argues that agencies are fundamentally optimistic, while boardrooms are rather more glass-half-empty; agencies look to optimise while boardrooms prefer to limit damage, so agencies should use this paradigm to prove their value as 'immunisers'.
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Susanna Cousins, WPP Atticus Awards, Merit, Advertising, 2016
This essay explores agencies' value to boardrooms, considering what they need to change in order to remain relevant and prepared to face business problems.
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Patrick Barwise, Market Leader, Quarter 3, 2016, pp. 20-24
This article describes how marketers must work to create brand equity while always keeping in mind what is most important for CEOs.
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Jeremy Bullmore, Market Leader, Quarter 3, 2016, pp. 18-19
This article argues that the advertising industry is built upon a misplaced unease and that marketers and brands should be encouraged to be more adventurous because a failed campaign is rarely a disaster.
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Sonia Paul, Event Reports, EyeforTravel's San Francisco Summit, March 2016
This event report addresses how Avis, the car-rental company, found new customers by looking beyond tried and tested marketing techniques.
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Research on WARC, March 2016
This report explains how company growth in today's challenging climate needs to be more meaningful than merely focusing on numbers, and that the route to success is to focus on growing both consumer happiness and employee effectiveness.
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Lena Roland, Event Reports, Personal Information Economy, December 2015
This event report considers how issues around the collection and use of their personal data have affected consumers' trust in brands and companies.
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WARC Trends, Toolkit 2016
This article, taken from the Warc Toolkit 2016 report, looks at developments in attribution and modelling, including new forms of campaign analysis.
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Tim Ambler, Market Leader, Quarter 4, 2015, pp. 16-16
This article responds to 'Building marketing's impact in the boardroom', published in Market Leader Q3 2015, which gives practical advice about how to increase marketing's influence in the boardroom.
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Michael J McDermott, ANA Magazine, August 2015, pp. 4-8
This article summarises concerns marketers have around media buying transparency and how agencies are responding, and offers ways for clients to protect themselves.
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J. R. Badian, ANA Magazine, July 2015, pp. 14-16
This article explores the essential tenets for being an effective digital marketer.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, Advertising Age Digital, April 2015
This event report discusses the measurement challenges facing brands, based on the experience of AT&T, the telecoms company.
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Ted McConnell, WARC Exclusive, July 2015
In this collection of articles the various elements of the online advertising ecosystem are explained.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, MRMW New York, May 2015
This event report discusses how Mondelez International, the snacks giant, has enhanced its efforts to measure digital return on investment.
