Marketing: Global Edition

As a Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell launches a range of skincare for toddlers, Jasmine goes on a rant about just how far marketing should go in creating demand.

Purpose. Should a company have one? Is purpose a necessary investment or a waste of money and focus. Piers and Jasmine go head to head on this one. Who knew this would be the one they'd fall out over?

Colabs! They’re everywhere. It’s like Tinder for trademarks. And sometimes, the chemistry is electric. Sometimes, it’s a disaster. In this episode, Jasmine and Piers debate the question: can colabs go too far? They discuss Zara × Disney, Balenciaga x Crocs, KFC x Crocs, Supreme x Louis Vuitton, Barbie x Airbnb, Kanye West x adidas

How do you bring a brand to life using food? In this week's episode Jasmine interviews Andrew Fishwick, Chairman of Salt, the marketing company that has mastered brand storytelling through food and drink. In addition to some Michelin star name dropping, Andrew spills the beans on some of Salt's most fascinating projects for brands such as CNBC, Airbus, Soho Farmhouse and Goldman Sachs. And Andrew and Jasmine ponder what Lamborghini and Mini might taste like if they were edible.

Some brands are dead and forgotten. Others are technically dead in that they are not trading but they still haunt our memories, our imaginations and sometimes even our vintage t-shirts. In this Halloween edition, Jasmine is joined by Seven’s Creative Director, Hannah Shore, to discuss ghost brands. From Pan Am and Concorde to Kodak and Polaroid to Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Nakumat, Jasmine and Hannah imagine how they would bring great ghost brands back from the dead. Warning: this episode contains a jump scare!

Piers and Jasmine look at conglomerates (ugly word, fascinating subject) from Unilever & P&G to Apple & Virgin, zooming in on Tata Group and Majid al Futtaim, asking the question, how can a complex company ensure that their brand story and identity bolsters business value.

In this episode Jasmine and Piers debate the question of why Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund just bought one of the world’s largest gaming companies. Was it just the financial deal of the year or is the Crown Prince trying to move Saudi Arabia up the reputational leaderboard? And if so, will it help

In this episode Jasmine interviews Dominic Graham from Deloitte about the challenges of marketing professional services and how such firms bottle the magic. 

It is one year since the start of Marketing: Global Edition. In this anniversary edition Jasmine and Piers explore the theme of brand birthdays asking the question - are they are actually relevant and have they ever made a tangible difference to company’s bottom line?

There are 9 unicorns in Africa and 8 of them are in fintech. The fintech explosion across the continent represents a wholesale shift in how money moves, how small businesses get capital, how consumers pay, borrow and save. And it is also one of the continent’s most dynamic branding laboratories — because these companies aren’t just selling apps, they’re trying to build trust, reliability and scale in markets where half the adult population has historically been unbanked. In this episode Jasmine and Piers debate the question of whether African fintechs are creating a new kind of African brand or just getting away with sub-par branding because of the technologically-driven gold rush? Behind the $3 billion Flutterwaves and $1.7 billion Wave brands are stories about logos, colours, agents, kiosks, even penguins.