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WARC Best Practice, March 2019
Explores the current thinking and writing on the subject of low-budget marketing, a hazy category of marketing, WARC generally defines low budgets as $0-$500,000.
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Ruth Saunders, WARC Best Practice, November 2017
As marketers come under constant pressure to deliver ROI while doing "more with less", they can find efficiencies by adopting strategies that have proven successful for a number of start-ups.
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Research on WARC, July 2019
Looks at the Australia digital media landscape and the role of external influencers in decision-making.
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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.
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08 July 2019
A maturing internet ad market will take just over half of global adspend within a couple of years, according to the latest Zenith Advertising Expenditure Forecasts.
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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.
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WARC Exclusive, June 2019
Summarises current thinking about how to advertise effectively, given the current sense that advertising is not driving the growth it should be.
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Amy Rodgers, WARC Data, May 2019
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index (GMI) for May 2019, when the GMI index in the Americas returned to growth for the first time in 2019.
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Harlan E. Spotts, Marc G. Weinberger, and Michelle F. Weinberger, Journal of Advertising Research, Digital First, May 2019
This study focuses on the effects of different marketing-communications tools on company performance, namely how advertising-execution quality, media spending, and sales promotions differentially influence changes in sales revenue.
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24 May 2019
Huawei has endured a series of blows in recent days – the most significant being the decision by UK-based chip designer ARM to suspend business with it – but industry observers expect the beleaguered Chinese tech giant to weather the ...
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Amit Chaubey, Sachin Sharma and Dhruv Chadha, WARC Exclusive, May 2019
FMCG marketers in APAC can use marketing science to extract more efficient investments in digital media, especially when resources are constrained.
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Amy Rodgers, WARC Data, April 2019
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index (GMI) for April 2019, when the index for marketing budgets fell into decline after 17 consecutive months of growth.
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ANA Media Conference, April 2019
A major shift is required in how agencies, and the brands they serve, approach various aspects of the marketing process.
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WARC Best Practice, May 2019
Explores advertising in a recession through the evidence available in the Warc archives and beyond - typically, recessions will cause businesses to reign in advertising spend in the short term, a mistake, the paper argues, that could cause long term damage to a brand.
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Josef Hrebik and Brent Chaters, WARC Webinars, April 2019
Provides results from a first-of-its-kind study conducted by Accenture and thinktv, which measures the effectiveness of media channel spending on driving sales in the Canadian market.
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Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ARF AUDIENCEXSCIENCE, April 2019
While digital media can encourage marketers to prioritize short-term activation, research from Les Binet and Peter Field has shown that brand building remains essential.
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19 April 2019
PepsiCo’s share price hit a record high earlier this week after the food and beverage giant reported its biggest sales increase in more than three years, not least because of its investment in marketing.
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17 April 2019
UK marketing budgets were being revised upwards in the first quarter of the year even as marketers’ confidence levels remained significantly negative, according to the latest IPA Bellwether report.
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05 April 2019
Digital and out-of-home (OOH) were the only media to see marketing budgets grow around the world last month, as all other channels registered declines.
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WARC Data, March 2019
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index (GMI) for March 2019, when the headline GMI growth fell to its lowest level ever.
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Nicholas De Canha, Michael Ewing, and Ali Tamaddoni, Journal of Advertising Research, Digital First, March 2019
The advertising-sales relationship remains paramount. This study, believed to be the largest that focuses on automotive sales and advertising, investigates ceilings and thresholds by optimizing budget allocations among media.
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21 March 2019
For the first time, the strength of the Google-Facebook duopoly is reducing the pool of ad money available to other online media owners, according to a new WARC report.
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Nazrul I. Shaikh, Mahima Hada, and Niva Shrestha, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2019, pp. 14-26
Companies have been increasing their investments in digital-video advertising at the expense of television advertising.
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Amy Rodgers, WARC Data, February 2019
This article summarises the results of the Global Marketing Index (GMI) for February 2019, when marketing budgets and trading conditions in the Americas declined sharply.
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04 March 2019
Total advertising expenditure in Japan increased 2.2% year-on-year to 6.53 trillion yen (circa $58.9bn) in 2018, the seventh consecutive year of growth, according to the latest figures from Dentsu.
