It's time to shake up how we think about creativity. Experts guests including System1, Heineken, Rob Campbell, Paula Bloodworth and Kantar drop by the pod with their perspectives on where creativity is going next.

Guests: Paula Bloodworth, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Alien Baby, Chief Marketing Officer of Idris Elba's IE7; Rob Campbell, Chief Strategy Officer, Colenso; Andrew Tindall, SVP, Global Partnerships, System1; Natasha Maharaj, Global International Brands Director, Heineken; Vera Sidlova, Global Creative Thought Leadership Director, Kantar

Brand building in a complex media landscape is the talk of the Croisette. Festival speakers including McDonalds, Spotify, Dr Grace Kite, the IPA, and Tracksuit join us to share about how to get it right.

Guests: Michael Ainette, Chief Creative Officer, FCB New York; Rich Frankel, Global Creative Director, Spotify Advertising; Dr. Grace Kite, VP Analytic Partners; JJ Healan, VP of U.S. Marketing, Brand, Content & Culture; Laurence Green, Director of Effectiveness, IPA; Connor Archbold, Co-CEO of Tracksuit.

We're in Cannes! Expert speakers drop in to discuss unshittifying CX, the 'eye-watering' financial impact of dull media and how to unearth more insightful trends.
Guests: Yael Cesarkas, Executive Strategy Director, R/GA; Dr Karen Nelson-Field, Founder, Amplified Intelligence; Adam Morgan, co-founder, eatbigfish; Amy Daroukakis, Founder, Culture Connectors. Hosted by Rica Facundo, Managing Editor - APAC, WARC.

Building influence in the C-suite, the creator takeover and 'unshittifying' CX... it's all happening at Cannes Lions 2025. WARC's David Tiltman and Anna Hamill discuss the big stories to watch at Cannes this year.

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Kidults, social fitness and the rise of conservative video... WARC's Adi Kishore and Stephanie Siew dig into entertainment and leisure trends marketers need to know.

Brand strategy has been 'enshittified', argues Richard Huntington, CSO of Saatchi and Saatchi, in his new book Feral Strategy. He speaks to WARC's Lena Roland about why marketers need to throw off the constraints of orthodoxy and dogma to fix bland and uninspiring work.

S4 Capital's Sir Martin Sorrell joins the pod to talk industry upheaval, AI, and how Asia is setting the pace for advertising's next era with WARC's Rica Facundo.

WARC's report,The Pace Principle, is a landmark analysis and mythbusting guide built on consistent data from across Southeast Asia, Greater China, and India, to prove what marketing strategies work in dynamic markets like Asia to drive outsized impact. 

WARC Members get the full report along with practical insights to help CMOs and marketers of every level to apply these ideas to their own work, exemplary case studies, and a deck’s worth of charts to help you drive growth in dynamic and diverse markets. 

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Producing high-quality insights and seizing cultural moments are challenges to creative confidence, according to new research. Natalia Ball (Mars Pet Nutrition) and Annie Smith (LIONS Advisory) join WARC's Anna Hamill to discuss the state of creativity in 2025. Read the full study here: State of Creativity 2025: A call for confidence.

Now is the time for marketers to build relationships and more trust with the CEO and CFO. WARC's Cathy Taylor talks to Mary Kyriakidi, Global Thought Leader at Kantar and Eric Tsytsylin, Brand Strategy Partner at Lippincott about how marketers can prove marketing's worth in challenging times.

WARC members can read the full WARC Guide on “Making the case to the C-Suite: How to prove marketing drive growth in uncertain times” here.

Amazon's media 'side hustle' is booming, but that's only part of the story. WARC's Alex Brownsell and Celeste Huang discuss how Amazon's burgeoning ad empire offers new opportunities to brands.