The WARC Podcast

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June 09, 2026 Breaking down the nostalgia industrial complex
Nostalgia. Cultural déjà vu. Kidulting. Why are so many people desperate to escape the present? Welcome to our new sister podcast, This Is Contagious. In this episode, Contagious investigates everything from why adults are rebuilding their teenage bedrooms, to landlines for kids and the return of the iPod, and revealing why the past has become one of culture’s most powerful refuges.
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For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with
rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC
Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
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39min
June 04, 2026 Changing the playbook: Sports marketing's next era
With billions pouring into sports marketing this year, the stakes are high for brands. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup, and with more advertisers backing women's sports, We Are Social Sport's Joe Weston and Fuse's Matt Bailey join WARC's Anna Hamill to discuss the emerging trends in sports marketing.
Guests:
Joe Weston, Head Of Sport, We Are Social
Matt Bailey, Managing Partner, Fuse
Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, The WARC Podcast
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: Why 2026 is a massive year for sport and sponsors
00:09 – Super Bowl to World Cup: The new stakes in global sports marketing
02:17 – Making sponsorships famous: Social-first sports activation strategy
04:10 – Mega platforms: UEFA Champions League, FIFA World Cup and long-term rights
05:43 – Asynchronous viewing: How to reach fans beyond live broadcast
07:37 – Culture as a brief: Tapping fandoms and social communities in sport
09:42 – Rise of athlete content creators: Players as media brands
11:49 – Athletes owning their narrative: Authenticity, IP and brand partnerships
14:12 – The boom in women’s sport: Why sponsors are rushing in
17:18 – Brand upside in women’s football: Audience growth and safer fan environments
21:49 – Innovation in women’s sport
22:48 – World Cup 2026: Big brand campaigns vs. “win the day” real-time content
27:10 – Creator-led World Cup: 24/7 content, fan hubs and algorithm playbooks
33:33 – Go big vs lots of little

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
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39min
June 02, 2026 Connecting sustainability with marketing effectiveness
How do social values and environmental sustainability boost marketing effectiveness? Goodvertising's Thomas Kolster joins WARC's Amy Rodgers to discuss how sustainability is a driving factor on the most effective advertising campaigns, based on WARC Rankings data.
Guests:
Thomas Koster, Founder, Goodvertising
Amy Rodgers, Head of Content, WARC Creative
Chapters:
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00:00 – Intro: The WARC Effective 100 Rankings Explained
01:43 – Goodvertising, Climate and Brand Effectiveness
02:20 – Inside the Study: 12 Years of WARC Effective 100 Sustainability Data
03:28 – What Does “Sustainability” Really Mean for Brands and People?
05:38 – How Brand Sustainability Evolved
10:26 – How Many Top Effective Campaigns Are Truly Sustainable?
13:02 – Category Winners: Toiletries, Cosmetics and Retail in Sustainability
14:28 – Luxury, Premium and the Risk of Sustainability for the Wealthy Only
18:56 – Making Sustainability Affordable: Ugly Produce, IKEA and Circularity
21:32 – Why Financial Services Brands Over-Index on Sustainability Messaging
24:28 – AXA’s “Three Words”: Closing the Gender Risk Gap in Insurance
25:54 – Dove Real Beauty: Long-Term Brand Building and Creative Bravery
30:05 – DP World’s “Minus Three Degrees” Idea
32:58 – Bold, Consistent, Life-Centric Sustainability for Marketers

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
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40min
May 28, 2026 The Effective CMO: The New York Times' Amy Weisenbach
How does a 175-year-old news brand thrive in a volatile media economy? Amy Weisenbach, Chief Marketing Officer at The New York Times, joins WARC's Anna Hamill to discuss the strategies behind the publication's outsized revenue growth, as well as how to build brand trust and daily habits across news, games, sports and much more.
Guests:
Amy Weisenbach, Chief Marketing Officer, New York Times
Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, The WARC Podcast
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: The Effective CMO with The New York Times
01:00 – The New York Times by the numbers: subs, ads, longevity
02:07 – What “marketing effectiveness” means at The New York Times
03:24 – Beyond news: Games, The Athletic, Cooking and Wirecutter
08:22 – Building an ecosystem brand: the All Access Bundle strategy
09:32 – Wordle, daily habits and turning free users into subscribers
11:26 – Why early bundle messaging failed – and what actually worked
14:30 – Brand platform explained: “It’s Your World to Understand”
18:00 – One brand, many audiences: readers, subscribers and advertisers
19:27 – Global, national, local: balancing consistency and personalization
21:10 – Trust, misinformation and defending the New York Times brand
23:30 – Durability: protecting core journalism while growing new products
25:43 – Video-first future: NYT’s video and social channel strategy
29:37 – Case study: Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and the 30 greatest songwriters
32:42 – Live events, Wordle game show and the rise of AI in marketing

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
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42min
May 26, 2026 Five 2026 consumer trends you need to know
AI companions, social media concerns and 'comfort spending' are among key trends shaping consumer behaviour in 2026. WARC's Adi Kishore speaks to Stephanie Siew and GWI's Jason Mander about the big changes marketers need to know, based on WARC's 2026 Consumer Trends Report.
Guests:
Jason Mander, Chief Insight Officer, GWI
Stephanie Siew, Analyst, WARC
Adi Kishore, Insights Director, WARC
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: WARC Podcast & 2026 Consumer Trends Report
2:03 – Permacrisis: Why Consumer Sentiment Is Fragmented in 2026
3:30 – Trend 1: Uncertainty Fuels Comfort Consumption & “Small Joys”
6:05 – Where Spend Is Shifting: Comfort Food, Streaming, Affordable Luxury
6:27 – Trend 2: AI Redefining Companionship and Emotional Connection
10:06 – Ethics, Safety & Vulnerable Users in AI Companionship
11:57 – Trend 3: Youth Social Media Restrictions & Digital Safety Backlash
13:49 – Influencer Marketing, Regulation & Reaching Gen Z Safely
16:16 – Trend 4: Reassessing “Made in China” & the Rise of Eastfluence
19:15 – Chinese & Asian Brands: Electronics, Beauty, EVs and Culture
20:37 – Trend 5: Generative AI in Content – Efficiency vs Authenticity
22:20 – Consumer Trust, AI Labeling and the Role of Human Creativity
24:15 – Balancing Innovation and Trust in 2026
24:55 – Action Points for CMOs: Where to Start With These 5 Trends

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
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27min
May 21, 2026 The Multiplier Playbook: your guide to better marketing
Are you stuck in the ROAS death spiral? Marketers have long struggled to prove the ROI of brand building, relying on flawed, short-term metrics that erode long-term value. BERA's Michael Reh and WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin explore how to accurately track and quantify the Multiplier Effect—the compound growth achieved when brand and performance marketing work together.
Guests:
Michael Reh, Head of Data Science and Analytics, BERA
Ann Marie Kerwin, Americas Editor, WARC
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: The Multiplier Effect on The WARC Podcast
0:10 – Why brand building struggles to land in the C-suite
2:06 – Framing brand as a financial asset, not a marketing expense
3:48 – How strong brands boost ROAS and performance marketing returns
5:17 – The “missing 15%”: uncovering base sales driven by brand equity
8:01 – The brand equity metrics that matter: familiarity, regard, meaning, uniqueness
10:18 – The “doom loop”: cutting brand advertising and eroding equity
12:24 – Connecting brand equity to pricing power and profitability
16:20 – How brand building grows enterprise value and stock performance
19:15 – Brand equity as crisis insurance and a buffer in volatile times
21:55 – One piece of advice for CMOs on true marketing effectiveness
23:20 – Multiplier Playbook: where to find BERA’s findings on WARC
23:40 – What’s next in the Multiplier Playbook podcast series

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
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24min
May 19, 2026 How Meta evolved its advertising proposition
Meta's ad business funds an aggressive AI programme which, in turn, fuels the flywheel through further increases in ad revenue. WARC's Alex Brownsell joins Anna Hamill explore Meta’s hyper-efficient ad business, evaluate usage across its apps, and assess the performance of Meta campaigns.
Guests:
Alex Brownsell, Head of Content, WARC Media
Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, The WARC Podcast
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: Meta’s ad revenue “defies economic gravity”
0:27 – WARC Media’s Platform Insights: Meta report explained
2:03 – How big is Meta’s ad business vs other platforms?
4:14 – Why Meta is outgrowing the global social ad market
5:51 – Performance marketing, SMEs and Meta’s advertiser base
6:51 – How Meta uses AI for targeting, creative and measurement
9:42 – Meta audience demographics across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
12:02 – Instagram Reels, short-form video and micro drama trends
15:38 – Does AI investment actually improve Meta's campaign performance?

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
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23min
May 14, 2026 The Multiplier Effect: what we know so far
WARC's research The Multiplier Effect proved that stronger brand equity acts as a multiplier, driving greater impact and efficiency for performance advertising. Ahead of the next stage of the project, WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin spoke to David Tiltman and the ANA's Stephanie Fierman about new survey data and what we've learned so far.
Guests:
Stephanie Fierman, Head of Brand Practice, ANA
David Tiltman, Chief Content Officer, WARC
Ann Marie Kerwin, Americas Editor, WARC
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: Revisiting The Multiplier Effect
0:09 – Brand building vs performance: why the “say–do gap” matters
1:33 – What is The Multiplier Effect report?
3:35 – Explaining the multiplier effect: brand × performance
6:49 – ROI proof: shifting from performance-heavy to balanced media
7:09 – ANA survey: budget pressure and rising demand for financial impact
7:53 – Short-termism, click-throughs and the ‘doom loop’ in advertising
11:41 – C-suite disconnect: saying brand matters but not crediting it
13:36 – Brand equity, LLMs and generative AI discoverability
17:39 – The Multiplier Playbook and the eight implementation blockers
21:01 – Fixing the say–do gap: metrics, silos and creative platforms

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
Book a demo: https://www.warc.com/en/subscribe
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30min
May 12, 2026 How marketing measurement is evolving in 2026
Michael Kaminsky, co-founder of Recast, joins Paul Stringer to discuss media's shift to outcomes measurement and the impact of AI on measurement, as they try to disentangle AI hype from reality.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: WARC's Future of Measurement 2026
00:09 – Why the Future of Marketing Measurement Matters for CMOs
02:47 – From Reach to Outcomes: Why Legacy Media Must Prove Business Impact
04:09 – Can You Measure Trust? Linking Brand Trust Metrics to Sales Outcomes
06:26 – Meta, Google and AI Optimisation: How Platforms Drive Incremental Conversions
09:49 – Why Independent Validation Beats Platform-Reported Attribution
11:26 – Measuring Cross-Media Halo Effects in E‑commerce and Retail
13:13 – How AI Is Moving Measurement from Reporting to Real-Time Decisioning
17:18 – Will AI Speed Up MMM and Incrementality Tests?
20:21 – Building a Learning Culture: Turning Measurement into Behaviour Change
23:21 – Agentic AI and Foundation MMMs: Generalist vs Bespoke Models
31:41 – Avoiding Snake Oil and Making Measurement Work

For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here: https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
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34min
May 07, 2026 The daytime drop: rethinking social media effectiveness
Not all time spent with social media is equal, according to new research. Social effectiveness varies significantly by time of day, giving out of home media an important role in priming and amplifying social media campaigns. Posterscope's Russell Smither and Dentsu's Ciara Smyth join WARC's Alex Brownsell to discuss.
For 40 years, WARC has been providing the marketing industry with
rigorous, unbiased evidence and expert effectiveness guidance. The WARC
Podcast publishes a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday.
Subscribe to The WARC Podcast here:
https://www.warc.com/en/warc-podcasts
Sign up to daily WARC News for free: https://www.warc.com/en/latest
Book a demo: https://www.warc.com/en/subscribe
...more
37min

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