Article
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WARC Best Practice, December 2018
This article provides marketers with information about how to balance long-term and short-term strategies.
Article
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Brian Carruthers, Event Reports, IPA EffWorks, October 2019
Looks at how sportswear brand adidas has evolved its thinking on marketing effectiveness in recent years.
Article
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Dom Boyd, WARC Webinars, October 2019
Dom Boyd, founder of DADA Consulting, addresses the theme of October's edition of Admap on winning in the era of brand experience by answering key questions on the topic.
Article
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WARC Exclusive, October 2019
Summarises current thinking about how to advertise effectively in the APAC region, given the current sense that advertising is not driving the growth it should be.
Article
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Nazia Du Bois and Lorna Sommerville, Admap, October 2019
Nazia Du Bois, Founder of Ricebowl Strategy, in conversation with Lorna Sommerville, CMO of Function of Beauty, a personalised hair care business, on the inner workings of DTC brands.
Opinion
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David Tiltman, October 2019
It appears that brand building is back, after years of digitally-enabled performance work drawing the lion’s share of the budget.
Article
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WARC Exclusive, October 2019
Summarises the discussions and ideas of the CMO Growth Council, a collection of the marketing industry’s top talent.
News
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26 September 2019
Many ads winning creative awards are failing to deliver meaningful branding and so limiting their effectiveness, according to research from Kantar.
Opinion
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Lucy Aitken, September 2019
Starbucks’ ability to optimise its channel mix to deliver an excellent commercial return on its social media spend sets an inspirational example for other marketers.
News
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20 September 2019
Australian Advertising Effectiveness Rules, a new report by effectiveness experts Peter Field and Rob Brittain, in association with the Communications Council, takes a deep look at the new Australian Effies database.
Article
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Alex Brownsell, Event Reports, Kantar Talks, September 2019
Brands need to find a balance between performance marketing and brand building; afters years of focusing on performance media, eBay has renewed the emphasis on brand.
Article
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Admap, September 2019
A summary of new thinking and best practice on smarter video planning from Admap.
Article
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Orlando Wood, Admap, September 2019
A new study argues that a shift in industry attentional style is leading not just to brand short-termism but to a ‘flattening’ and abstraction of the work itself, which threatens effectiveness.
News
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08 August 2019
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) will soon be wading into an age-old marketing debate that pitches long-term brand building against short-term transactional strategies.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, August 2019
Setting out key insights on using emotion, arguing that it helps to build a brand and business, while also giving a sense of the debate on its impact and its relationship to rational persuasion.
Article
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Gabey Goh, Event Reports, Advertising Week APAC, July 2019
Insurance Australia Group (IAG), the insurance provider, will conduct a geographically targeted two-year test in a bid to discover the impact of taking a sole focus on building its brand.
Article
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WARC Exclusive, July 2019
Highlighting trends among the campaigns entered into the 2019 Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions, including campaign budgets, media mix, creative approaches and metrics.
Article
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David Tiltman, WARC Webinars, July 2019
David Tiltman, VP of content at WARC, takes viewers through WARC's white paper 'Anatomy of Effectiveness', and the five key priorities for brand marketers and advertising agencies seeking to achieve greater impact.
Research Paper
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Adam Sheridan, Research on WARC, Ipsos Views
Campaigns using creative evaluation services are less likely to achieve long-term effects, so marketers need to better apply these metrics in their creative development process to improve the chance of achieving long term business effects.
Article
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2019
The advertising industry loves awards, but they’re focused on the wrong ones, according to consultant Peter Field, and the result is a crisis in creative effectiveness.
News
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01 July 2019
Marketing activities that realise an immediate return tend to win out when it comes to the allocation of budget, but a new study warns that brands should not neglect the need to lock in long-term growth, which very few are able to do.
Article
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2019
Research from the Financial Times shows that while business leaders understand the value of brands in delivering long-term returns, they are failing to make the necessary brand-building investment.
News
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27 June 2019
In a digitally enabled world where consumers are effectively “always on”, VF, the owner of apparel brands such as Vans, Timberland and The North Face, is dialling down its activation content.
Article
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WARC Exclusive, WARC at Cannes Lions 2019
In a talk held by WARC at Cannes Lions 2019, CMOs from Heineken, McDonalds and Coca-Cola demonstrate how creativity has driven market share, elevated share price and accelerated business growth.
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WARC Exclusive, June 2019
Provides a bite-sized summary of the industry trends picked up on by WARC at the 2019 Cannes Lions Festival.
