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The WARC Podcast

Bold Minds. Bold Moves. Get closer to insights, stories and lessons behind bold marketing with conversations hosted by the world’s leading authority on marketing effectiveness.
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Episodes

WARC Talks brand purpose

This week WARC talks brand purpose with David Aaker, vice chairman at Prophet. Discussing the role of purpose in the marketing industry and how marketers can use purpose to help solve societal problems. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .

Nov 03, 202233 min

3 in 15: Using brand assets

This week we’re joined by Catherine Driscoll, WARC’s Commissioning Editor EMEA and editor of a recent WARC Guide to brand assets in a hybrid world. Catherine explores how to create strong brand assets when you don’t have a physical product, the increasing importance of sonic branding and details the top tips for maximising brand assets. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Oct 27, 202215 min

WARC Talks Finding Gen Z

WARC Media's Celeste Huang summarises the latest Global Ad Trends report Finding Gen Z , which explores media consumption habits among 16- to 24-year-olds. Catrina Dear, entertainment lead at the7stars, and Aliya Gilmore, a strategist at Culture Group, discuss how brands should communicate with younger audiences. Hosted by Alex Brownsell, Head of Content at WARC Media.

Oct 20, 202233 min

WARC Talks Digital Commerce - Retail Media Today

Gregory Grudzinski, Head of Content for WARC Digital Commerce, and Colin Lewis, author of WARC's Retail Media Primer Series discuss the retail media offerings of Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Target and Instacart. The complete Retail Media Primer Series is available to subscribers at warc.com/digital-commerce .

Oct 17, 202225 min

WARC Talks brands in culture

This week WARC talks brands in culture with Marcus Collins, head of strategy at Wieden+Kennedy New York, and author and social anthropologist, Grant McCracken. Discussing how brands can find a space for themselves in culture. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Oct 13, 202245 min

3 in 15: The Consumer Crunch

This week Lena Roland, Head of Content for WARC Strategy, and David Tiltman, WARC’s SVP Content discuss the key takeaways from the latest WARC Guide to The Consumer Crunch: Navigating inflation and the threat of recession. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Oct 06, 202220 min

WARC Talks budgets and ROI

This week WARC talks budget setting and ROI with Grace Kite, founder and economist at magic numbers, and Paul Dyson, co-founder at Accelero. What is the relationship between what marketers spend, and what kind of return they can expect? Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Sep 29, 202238 min

3 in 15: Ad investment forecasts

Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, and James McDonald, WARC’s Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, examine the latest global ad spend forecasts and the impact of the economic slowdown. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .

Sep 22, 202218 min

WARC Talks Anti-personalisation

This week WARC talks anti-personalisation with marketing consultant Samuel Brealey and Michael Taylor, founder of Vexpower. With the death of the cookie and data privacy concerns, marketers are rethinking their approach to personalisation. Discussing how personalisation adds complexity to an ad campaign and may not be good value for money. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Sep 15, 202231 min

3 in 15: The state of creative effectiveness

This week we’re joined by Warwick Cairns, strategy partner at The Effectiveness Partnership and an editor of the state of creative effectiveness report. Warwick shares the key takeaways from the report; including how marketers are finding marketing effectiveness challenging, the importance of creating a unifying set of KPIs, and how vital it is that marketers make their case to the c-suite. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Sep 08, 202219 min

WARC Talks: What does 'brand' actually mean?

This week WARC talks about one of the most ill-defined words in the marketing lexicon; brand. Claire Strickett, brand strategy director at Jellyfish, and Paul Bailey, brand strategy director at Halo explore what brand actually means, and why it is so important to use the word clearly. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Sep 01, 202246 min

WARC Talks Communities and Creative Effectiveness

This week WARC talks engaging communities with the strategists behind two of the 2022 Creative Effectiveness Lions winners. Discussing tapping into fandoms, audience empowerment and successful partnerships, Wieden+Kennedy's Tass Tsitsopoulos and FCB Canada's Shelley Brown give insights into how connecting with communities led to their work's success.

Aug 25, 202222 min

WARC Talks Inflation and Economic Slowdown

This week WARC talks inflation and economic slowdown with J. Walker Smith and Karine Trinquetel - insights experts at market research company Kantar. Discusses new consumer sentiment data and how brands can focus on resilience and serving consumer needs. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Aug 18, 202243 min

WARC Talks US automotive marketing

This week WARC talks American automotive marketing with Scotty Reiss, founder of A Girls Guide to Cars. Discusses the increased popularity of the electric vehicle in the US, and what problems that may arise for marketers in the face of inflation. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Aug 11, 202239 min

3 in 15 - Media Inflation

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Head of Media Alex Brownsell, who is the editor of the recent Global Ad Trends report on the rising cost of incremental reach. Alex explores the increased costs of advertising on linear TV, looks at this inflation across the media ecosystem, and explains how attention metrics are muddying these waters even further. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Aug 04, 202224 min

3 in 15 - Conscious Consumerism in Southeast Asia

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Asia Editor Rica Facundo, who is also the editor of the recent Spotlight on conscious consumerism in Southeast Asia. Rica takes us through the cultural barriers in the way of the green economy growing, the role of sustainable packaging, and innovative products and services making sustainability more inclusive. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Jul 28, 202212 min

Faris Yakob on Attention - 3. Attention Culture

Faris Yakob, co-founder of the nomadic creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention , hosts a special three-part podcast series exploring human attention and advertising. In this third and final episode, Faris turns his attention to how advertising and the media impacts society, and how brands can navigate a complex polarized media environment. Guests include Dr Gwenyth Jackaway , a former media professor at Fordham University, Jared Grant , integrated strategy director at Pub...

Jul 21, 202244 min

Faris Yakob on Attention - 2. Quantities and Qualities of Attention

Faris Yakob, co-founder of the nomadic creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention , hosts a special three-part podcast series exploring human attention and advertising. In this second episode, Faris and his guests address how attention is measured and valued, and what this means for the media industry now in the very near future. Faris is joined by former General Mills CMO Ivan Pollard, Lumen Research founder Mike Follett, and Katie Hartley, managing director - product and i...

Jul 14, 202241 min

Faris Yakob on Attention - 1. The Attention Economy

Faris Yakob, co-founder of the nomadic creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention , hosts a special three-part podcast series exploring human attention and advertising. In episode one, discussion focuses on the origins of the ‘attention economy’, how it has evolved in the digital age, and how marketers can attract attention. Faris is joined by Zoe Scaman, founder of integrated strategy studio Bodacious, Matt Locke, partner at content studio Storythings, and Tony Haile, senio...

Jul 07, 202247 min

3 in 15: The CMO Agenda in Cannes

This week we're joined by Anna Hamill, Senior Editor - Brands at WARC, to discuss what was driving the CMO agenda in Cannes. Anna’s key insights include why sustainability is table stakes for CMOs, how brands are preparing for a recession, and the changing role of brand purpose in the growth equation. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Jun 30, 202219 min

WARC x Cannes Lions: Effective creativity and the WARC Awards for Effectiveness

Wrapping up WARC’s coverage of the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Host Lena Roland, Head of Content for WARC Strategy, is joined by WARC editors David Tiltman, Chiara Manco and Anna Hamill. They reveal the winners of this year’s WARC Awards for Effectiveness, share insights from the previous day’s Brands in Culture sessions featuring McDonald’s and Nestle, and outline James Hurman (Previously Unavailable) and Tom Morton’s (R/GA) session on whether we need new rules for a...

Jun 24, 202223 min

WARC x Cannes Lions: The Future of Strategy and Ehrenberg-Bass research

All the latest from day four of Cannes Lions 2022. Host Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, is joined in the Palais des Festivals by WARC editors Lena Roland and Anna Hamill to talk about this morning’s Future of Strategy sessions, and recap yesterday’s presentation from Jenni Romaniuk, Research Professor at Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

Jun 23, 202224 min

WARC x Cannes Lions: Brand-building in an e-commerce world and B2B best practice

News and insights from day three at Cannes Lions 2022. Host David Tiltman, WARC’s SVP Content, is joined by WARC editors Alex Brownsell and Sam Pena-Taylor. They discuss James Hurman’s latest presentation on the WARC stage, and reveal Benedict Evans’s long-range view on the future of e-commerce and media.

Jun 22, 202230 min

WARC x Cannes Lions: Digital commerce and when targeting doesn't work

All the latest from day two of Cannes Lions 2022. Host Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, is joined by David Tiltman and Imaad Ahmed to talk about the collision of marketing and digital commerce - a hot topic at this year’s festival - and reveal fresh research from Creative X and Analytic Partners. Plus Anna Hamill provides insights into the key priorities among CMOs in Cannes.

Jun 21, 202231 min

WARC x Cannes Lions: Attention jeopardy and the Anatomy of Effectiveness

The first of five daily episodes of The WARC Podcast from Cannes Lions 2022. Host David Tiltman, WARC’s SVP Content, is joined in the Palais des Festivals by WARC editors Alex Brownsell, Lena Roland and Chiara Manco. They discuss new attention research from Peter Field, Professor Karen Nelson-Field and Orlando Wood, WARC’s updated Anatomy of Effectiveness whitepaper, and preview the upcoming Effectiveness Show.

Jun 20, 202226 min

WARC Talks the Crypto Winter - Implications for Marketers

This week WARC talks the crypto winter and the implications for marketers with Cary Tilds, co-founder of Web3 Marketing Association, and CSO at Frameplay, and David Wallace, co-founder of Web3 Marketing Association, and founder at NMD+. Looking at the current situation in the crypto-currency world and what this means for marketers. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Jun 16, 202241 min

3 in 15 - Sustainability Marketing in India

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Biprorshee Das, India Editor and the editor of the recent Spotlight on sustainability marketing in India. Bipro takes us through the cultural context of this issue, the need for sustainability to be at the core of a brand’s strategy, and the consumer perspective. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

Jun 09, 202212 min

WARC Talks Fragmentation

This week WARC talks fragmentation with Oliver Feldwick, head of innovation at The&Partnership and Ana Andjelic, a global C-level executive. Discussing the challenges and opportunities around fragmentation. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .

Jun 02, 202236 min

3 in 15 - Connected TV

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Cathy Taylor, US Commissioning Editor for WARC Strategy, and editor of the recent WARC guide on connected TV. Cathy explores the reasons why we should be paying attention to CTV, the role of first party data and cookies, and what the future of CTV might look like. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter ....

May 26, 202217 min

WARC Talks Digital Brand Growth

This week WARC talks digital brand growth with Tom Morton, Chief Strategy Officer at R/GA. Discusses how the established laws of marketing apply to brands that have started or scaled up in a digital economy. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .

May 19, 202224 min
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