The WARC Podcast

Today we’re summarising the biggest talking points from this year in digital commerce and retail media. WARC's David Tiltman and Gregory Grudzinski discuss the explosive growth of retail media, the impact it’s having on marketing structures, and what we’re seeing in social commerce.

Listen to the other episodes mentioned here: Why brand building is essential to scaling up profitably on digital marketplaces, How retail media is disrupting marketing structures, and Retail media trends with Colin Lewis

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Today we’re summarising the biggest talking points from this year in creative effectiveness. WARC's David Tiltman and Amy Rodgers discuss the move from purpose to post-purpose, the return of humour in advertising, and a host of important new research studies.

Listen to the other episodes mentioned here: Emotion in advertising and Do stronger relationships produce stronger results?

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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Today we’re summarising the biggest talking points from this year in media. WARC’s David Tiltman and Alex Brownsell discuss Meta’s remarkable resurgence as a force in the global ad market, the fragmentation of attention measurement, and some important new thinking on reach.

Listen to the other episodes mentioned here: Global ad spend outlook 2023/24, ESOV, attention and creative effectiveness, New thinking in reach.

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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This week we’re summarising the biggest talking points from this year in strategy. WARC’s David Tiltman and Lena Roland discuss a call for strategy to become more revolutionary, why marketers need to banish generational marketing, and why the rise of niche communities are becoming a key opportunity for strategists.

Listen to the other episodes mentioned here: WARC x Cannes Lions: Future of Strategy, plus building brands for a new economy, The Future of Strategy and why marketers need a reality check, Is popular culture dead?

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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This week WARC’s Lena Roland talks to sports marketing consultant James Williams and 5T Sports Group’s Aileen McManamon. Discussing values aligned partnerships, brands that are making sponsorship work, and advice for marketers starting out.

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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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This week WARC’s Cathy Taylor and Ann Marie Kerwin look at how American marketers are getting started with Gen AI tools. Discussing definitions, benefits and pitfalls, and advice for getting started.

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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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WARC’s China editor, Jenny Chan, speaks to Sir Martin Sorrell, executive chairman at S4 Capital and Rogier Bikker, managing director at Media.Monks, Greater China. Discussing the China macroeconomic outlook for both inbound and outbound brands, applications of the ‘AI Industrial Revolution’, and the impact on the agency remuneration model.

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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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This week John Bizzell, WARC’s awards lead, talks to Martin Beverley, chief strategy officer at adam&eveDDB and Kate Waters, director of client strategy and planning at ITV.

Discussing winning campaigns from APG Creative Strategy Awards 2023.

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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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In an exclusive podcast interview for WARC’s Marketer’s Toolkit, Grant McKenzie - Chief Marketing Officer, Europe and International at Asahi - talks to WARC’s Anna Hamill about sports sponsorship, media fragmentation, moving on from gender stereotypes, and the impact of climate change on the beer industry.

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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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In an exclusive podcast interview for WARC’s Marketer’s Toolkit, Mondelez’s Global Senior Vice-President for Consumer Experience and Digital Commerce, Jonathan Halvorson, spoke to WARC’s Anna Hamill about pricing strategies through inflation, the artificial intelligence revolution, and brand purpose in a polarized world.

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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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