Managing Marketing

The Neighbourhood is an integrated agency model developed by Publicis Groupe Australia and New Zealand for Campbell Arnott’s six years ago. Soon after, Campbell’s sold Arnott’s to private equity firm KKR. So what makes The Neighbourhood the high-performing agency model that won the Grand Effie for the ‘Life’s Little Moments’ campaign and achieved an ROI that put Arnott’s in the top 10% of FMCG cam...

Stephen Wright is TrinityP3’s Media Business Director, responsible for managing and facilitating some of this country's most high-profile media pitches for more than a decade. He is here to discuss the implications for media agencies and their pitches based on the State of The Pitch Australia Research results. Since the pandemic, there has been an increasingly vocal call from agencies worldwide to...

Since the pandemic, there has been an increasingly vocal call from agencies worldwide to ditch the pitch and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces claiming the pitch is broken and even dead. As Australia’s and APAC’s leading pitch consultancy, we noticed that while there were plenty of opinions, there was very little data on this topic, so we undertook our own research called The State...

James Greet is a long-time creative media leader and the co-founder of The Payback Project Australia, a specialist advisory working with Marketers, Agencies and Media owners to help plan a path to net zero by reducing & removing carbon emissions related to content creation and media activities, and in the process become a force for good. In business today there are a range of ethical and moral...

Matt Newell is a partner and CEO of The General Store, a retail specialist agency that deals with strategy, brand identity, advertising, store design, and technology. When you think about retail advertising and marketing, what comes to mind? Loud, shouting, in-your-face advertising with massive price discount offers? This is the clique many are stuck with. But in fact, retail marketing is about bu...

Nathan Hodges, TrinityP3 Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, has spent the last decade assessing and designing agency rosters for clients around the globe. He recently noticed a distinct trend in the way bespoke agencies are being developed and implemented. Once upon a time, advertisers would appoint what was known as an agency, record, or AoR. This agency would provide most, if not all,...

Anton Buchner is the Marketing Strategist at Front Foot Marketing, Senior Consultant at TrinityP3 and widely known as the ROI Guy as he has built a career advising on measuring and optimising customer value to drive ROI. Anton has observed the explosion of technology in the marketing space and has seen increasing disconnection from proving that it increases customer value. While AI promises to hav...

Jemma Downey is Group Head of Commercial Excellence at Asahi Beverages, before which she developed a wide-ranging career spanning agencies, marketing and commercial roles in numerous international markets.  Amongst other things, Ellie and Jemma discuss the transition to a commercial role from agency land, the ever-changing requirements of the in-house agency team and how to get the best out of the...

Tom Donald is the Creative Strategy Lead, and Mick Boston is the Head of Design at Lion in Australia. Being inside a major Australian beverages company, they are well placed and qualified to discuss the benefits of having creative strategy and design inside. When the industry talks about in-house agencies, many think about production and maybe media. But what happens when an organisation takes cre...

Christopher Melotti is the Creative Director, Message Marketer and Marketing Consultant at Melotti Media and the Message Marketing Bureau.  Often considered by some in advertising as the poor relation of B2C, B2B marketing has undergone a significant transformation with an increased focus on building strong brand relationships that support sales and create the platform for business growth. Chris i...

Alana Burnside is the marketing director of the Industry SuperFund group. Alana and David discuss how the famous cupped hands ISA logo has kept relevance and consistency; the potentially;  life-changing importance of superannuation marketing; and the power of consistency in a marketing world often obsessed with the ‘bright, shiny and new’. Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/man...

Jessica Bray is Head of Media at Audience Precision. She is also the daughter of industry veterans Haydon and Kerry Bray. Having grown up in a household of media and advertising, it is perhaps not surprising Jessica is working in that same industry.  Jessica speaks openly and honestly about her career path and the challenges and opportunities it has presented her to date and the future challenges...

Sue Parker is the Executive Job Search Strategist at the Dare Group, who recently wrote a piece for mUmBRELLA sharing her opinions on the missed opportunity in the latest Meat and Livestock Australia television commercial for Lamb  titled The Generation Gap.  The MLC TVC can be viewed here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e0apyGASc     Her article was independently picked up by LinkedI...

Kerrie Spaargaren is the founder of Graffiti, a brand experience agency that has worked with many of the most well-known names in Australia. Kerrie and David discuss the discipline of brand experience, the post-covid world of brand experience, the need for ideas to be achievable, and the rapid advances in measurement of brand experience effectiveness.  Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/a...

Nick Hand is a commercially savvy, hands-on Finance Director, a CPA with more than two decades of experience managing the finances of media, creative, PR agencies and more. He returns to Managing Marketing to discuss the considerations for agencies, advertisers and procurement in dealing with value based pricing models. Value based pricing or Output based pricing has been around for quite a while,...

Ben Oliver is the Head of Media at Splash (The in-house agency at Treasury Wine Estates) and someone with first-hand of the challenges and benefits of taking media in-house. While we have talked about in-house agencies before, this is the first time we have discussed in-house media and it is interesting that the in-house creative or content side of the in-house model appears to get more attention...

Hick Hunter is the CEO, ECD and co-founder of Paper Moose, a purpose-driven independent agency where strategy, creative ideas and specialist expertise drives positive change for brands, communities and the environment. They are also a certified B-Corp. The advertising industry is incredibly competitive, with agencies competing for a share of business, a share of advertiser budgets, and a share of...

Julian Cole is the Strategy Principal at the Strategy Finishing School, where more than 4,000 strategies from agencies, clients and elsewhere have come to round out their strategic capabilities, particularly when it comes to briefing. Julian has a particular interest in improving briefing, particularly the creative brief.  For over a decade, procurement has been looking for ways to reduce marketin...

Kirsty Muddle is the CEO of dentsu Creative Australia and New Zealand and Cate Stuart- Robertson (AKA CSR) is the Chief Client Officer at dentsu Creative. Both have extensive experience in media and advertising with a particular creative focus, and recognised leaders in the industry. A lot of time and effort is expended by advertising agencies extolling their creativity. It is, after all, one of t...

Kat Kennan is a certified trauma-informed professional and Founder and CEO of Radical Customer Experience™️ - a groundbreaking consulting firm that encourages brands to establish genuine connections with their customers by embracing strengths-based, trauma-informed, and inclusive marketing services.  Nearly 73% of adults in the United States have experienced some type of traumatic event at least o...

David Sutherland is the Managing Director at the Micro Agency, part of the M&C Saatchi Group. He has built his career as an in-house agency model consultant, helping advertisers select the suitable model for them and implementing it into their roster. When the industry talks about in-house agencies, the conversation quickly turns to either in-housing or outsourcing, as if these are the only op...

Dani Bassil started her career in Sydney before migrating to the UK early this century to work in number of highly respected agencies including Mother, Weiden & Kennedy, VCCP and the CEO of Digital UK. She recently returned to Australia to take up to role of Chief Executive Officer at Clemenger BBDO Australia.  Dani shares her experience not only working in, but being an industry leaders in bo...

Nichole Williamson Davidson is a branding and digital marketing expert, currently the Chief Brand Officer at Zilker Media, an end-to-end marketing solution for thought leaders and the companies they lead. Nicholes believes that business executives should focus on their personal brand and not just their institutional brand. This philosophy and approach have seen her create successful digital strate...

Liam Loan-Lack is Head of Marketing APAC & Canada at CMC Markets. He is also a Non-Executive Director, B2B/B2C Growth Consultant, Marketing Effectiveness Specialist and Marketing Academy Alumnus. A lawyer by training, Liam has multidimensional experience working in agencies and as a marketer, which has given him a relatively unique perspective on the many challenges facing marketers today. He...

Murray Howe founded Marktects, which helps align marketing with the business bottom line. From a business perspective, there is often a negative conversation about marketing, from referring to it as the colouring-in department or the black hole of the budget. Survey after survey talks of the dissatisfaction CEOs have with their CMOs, and the industry points to the short tenure of the CMO as a symp...