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Meeting headlines: 1. ‘Not all partnerships are created equal’ - establishing the building blocks for sound global partnerships 2. ‘Disintermediating the agencies?’ - finding the right support infrastructure for your partnership 3. ‘Striking a balance’ - finding the right mix of central, regional and local involvement in your partnerships 4. ‘Modelling the future’ - the long & short modelling strokes required to succeed in an omnichannel world
Meeting headlines: 1. Brands as publishers? Maybe not, but there’s plenty of room to learn from them 2. Wisdom of the crowd can mean very little without an audience 3. CDJs will fail unless they are consumer-centric and developed holistically
Meeting headlines: 1. Sourcing within the digital “tech stack” 2. Best practice in Digital Asset Management 3. What digital marketing trends means for sourcing
Meeting headlines: 1. Re-inventing the agency model: change from the outside in 2. Evolving the agency model: a focus on efficiency 3. Lessons from the comms planning frontline
The following is a brief overview of the first CMO FORUM in Asia focused on internal and external capabilities.
More than 20 Global CMOs/ VPs of marketing came together on 24th June during Cannes Lions to share on two topics: building brands in a connected age and digital transformation.
Meeting headlines: 1. “Make a deposit NOT a withdrawal” - finding an authentic voice in real-time marketing 2. “Half of social is noise” - finding the tools that deliver business critical insights 3. “Art+science (hand-in-hand)” - key steps to becoming a data driven business
Meeting headlines: 1. Global vs. local sourcing in Asia 2. Remuneration: paying for performance 3. How procurement can build ad production efficiencies
Meeting headlines: 1. “Over-estimate the pace of change” - digital media management in China 2. The world's leading online video market - opportunities & challenges in a 'video-first' landscape 3. Building the right agency ecosystem & connections planning framework in China
Meeting headlines: 1. Soft vs hard procurement KPIs 2. Delivering value beyond savings 3. Underpinning decision making with data 4. BTL category renamed “customer marketing”
Meeting headlines: 1. “If you're too complicated you can't come to the party” - simplifying programmatic for in-house 2. “The non-pitch pitch” - a new approach to engineering greater media value 3. Global media deals - “knowing when to sign and when not to sign”
Meeting headlines: 1. Marketing structures: the only constant is change 2. Customer-centricity in APAC - don’t believe the hype? 3. Customer journeys are more complex than ever: demonstrating yours shouldn’t be
Meeting headlines: 1. “Find the metrics that really matter” - likes ≠engagement 2. “Joining the dots” - integrated agency management 3. “The two people interested in integration: client & customer” - developing stronger partnerships with agencies
Meeting headlines: 1. Paid, owned and earned is myth (discuss) 2. Four requirements for being a (content) marketer 3. Too often “resourcing for content means setting up one skilled person to fail” 4. Other meeting items and actions
Meeting headlines: 1. “It’s not the data you have, it’s the decisions you want to make” 2. Data-driven marketing: a step-by-step approach 3. Multiscreen marketing: “when agencies crack the revenue model, they’ll sell it to you” 4. Other items & actions
Meeting Takeouts: 1. What is digital transformation 2. “Speak their language and walk in their shoes” - how to change mindsets and accelerate DT 3. Mapping the customer experience / decision journey & its role in digital transformation
Meeting headlines: 1. Digital is a transversal (not traditional) category 2. But PR is a “catch-all” category. 3. How to get your agency financial audits right. 4. Examine your 3rd party supplier costs in events.