Managing Marketing

Audrey Dauvet is a Legal Consultant at E&J Consulting NYC and the podcast Brand & New host for the International Trademark Association. She discusses her experience in developing and protecting innovative ideas and products and shares the challenges of protecting intellectual property globally. She also talks about the rise of non-traditional trademarks such as sound, fragrance and colour and the...

Sonoo Singh is the Associate Editor of The Drum and has a career as a marketing industry journalist that spans two decades and working with all of the major brands in the UK including Campaign, Marketing Week, M&M Global, Pitch and The Drum. During that career, she has seen dramatic changes in the channels of journalism and business models. But one thing that has not changed is the important role...

Jane Evans has a career and portfolio in advertising as a Creative Director that would be the envy of most. But Jane is now the Founder of the Uninvisibility Project, inspired by the realisation that at a certain age she became invisible not just in the media and entertainment but also in her career. This is the experience of millions of women as their lives progress beyond middle age. When they h...

Ben Peacock is the Founder and Scott Matyus-Flynn is the Partner and Head of Strategy of The Republic Of Everyone, a world-leading brand, sustainability and innovation company. They talk about the rising importance of doing good as good for business and why some markets and companies struggle with achieving this as a core business driver. They share their philosophy on how brands and communities c...

Rob Campbell is the Head of Strategy EMEA at RG/A and has had strategy roles in Australia, China, the US and the UK. But here Rob shares how a friend’s experience with Corporate Gaslighting made him aware of a time in his own career and being the person he is he shared this on his personal blog “The Musings of an Opinionated Sod”. The response was overwhelming leading to this site “They Tried To K...

Kylee Stone is the Founder of Team Women Australia, CEO of the Performance Code, the host of the Uncharted Leaders podcast and a coach and mentor in resilience and courageous leadership. She discusses how now, in the face of unprecedented uncertainty and disrupted work arrangements, leadership and resilience is key to ensuring the sustainability and performance of organisations. Kylee shares pract...

Kevin Freedman, Chief Executive at Freedman International, a global implementation agency that oversees and deploys marketing campaigns for global brands that need an agile approach to deliver a consistent impact across all their target markets. Kevin talks about the challenges and opportunities facing Global Marketers and shares the three evolutions of Global Marketing approaches. https://www.tri...

Ophenia Liang is the Director and Co-Founder of Digital Crew, Australia’s fasting growing multi-award winning cross-cultural multilingual digital marketing company. Here she talks about the challenges of cross-cultural marketing in Asia, particularly in China, India and Japan and the mistakes and lessons marketers and their organisations face when expanding into overseas markets as diverse and com...

George Hawwa is the Growth Director of Social Media Agency Attention Experts and he shares his view on the various social media platforms of the 250 platforms currently available. He talks about the need of understanding the algorithms and the data of each platform is essential in achieving marketing success in any platform and how consistency is more important than creativity. Plus distinguishing...

Raja Pradeep is the CEO of IT company AUP IT provide CIO consultants to work with small to medium businesses to ensure governance, risk mitigation and compliance for the IT network and systems. He shares the changing role of the CIO and CTO is not just reducing risk, but working with the business to unlock value and performance within the It infrastructure and how agencies can ensure they meet the...

Neal Moore is the Content Strategy & Storytelling Consultant at Moore’s Lore Media in Singapore and he talks about the role of content in marketing and the lessons that brands and marketers should learn from the professional storytellers in Hollywood. He shares his thoughts on how marketers can better develop and share high-quality content to attract and engage customers. https://www.trinityp3.com...

Rob Mills is the Global CEO of Turnstile, his new Sports and Entertainment measurement company. If his name seems familiar, it is because he is also the Global CEO and Director of Gemba, the Sports and Entertainment Agency. This is not an accident as Rob explains. Measuring the value of sports and entertainment sponsorship has been a long-term challenge based on the flawed approximation of media e...

Nick Hockley is the Chief Executive of the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia. He talks about the changing face of sports sponsorship and the increasing opportunities for organisations to become involved in engaging communities by going beyond naming and signage rights in their sponsorships. He highlights the insights from his involvement from the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012, a signage and...

Chris Stephenson is the head of Strategy and Planning for APAC at PHD Media and talks about the importance of defining and delivering effectiveness. He shares the paradox for marketers of the desire to be innovative and groundbreaking while delivering the required results and how the two are a balancing act that can lead to conflict. He also shares his insights into the increasing role of strategy...

Jeremy Taylor is the Co-Founder and Director of Connect2 and the Business Director of TrinityP3 UK. He discusses the role of businesses and brands in defining and acting with an ethical purpose beyond simply delivering increased shareholder value. Be it delivering environmental sustainability, acting with good social responsibility or making ethical business decisions to minimise harm to others, i...

In this special conversation on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on Marketing, Anton Buchner talks with Henry Innes who is the Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of Mutiny Group, a team of data scientists, engineers and strategists that help put the rigour and measurability back into marketing. He talks about how cloud computing and advances in deep learning models within a neural network no...

Dr Augustine Fou is an Ad Fraud Investigator at Marketing Sciences Consulting Group. He talks about ad fraud, sharing the scope and the drivers of the problem for the advertising industry and sharing the issues that encourage the growth of ad fraud. He discusses the essential role marketers play in addressing the ad fraud problem, along with the media agencies, ad tech companies and even the priva...

To celebrate today’s 20th Anniversary of the company, Darren Woolley, Founder and Global CEO of TrinityP3 talks with Nathan Hodges about the founding and development of TrinityP3 from his time as Creative Director at JWT to the founding of P3 and the development and expansion of the company to Asia, and then Europe and the USA, the name change to TrinityP3 and the lessons and challenges along the...

Jared Alessandroni is CTO of Cultural Intelligence Agency Sparks & Honey and he talks about the development of a SAAS platform to make the huge amounts of cultural data and insights they collect more accessible. But more importantly, he sees the time when CMO will have an AI to process, sort, synthesise and provide a point of view to CMOs and even CEOs to inform their decision making. https://www....

Thomas Bertelsen is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of AI Media planning platform Blackwood Seven, and James Procter is the Founder and Creative Director of the data-led agency One Small Step Collective. They discuss the role of data in planning and predicting media performance and providing a measurement of performance and accountability to delivering results, speculating that the way to conn...

In this special conversation on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on Marketing, Anton Buchner talks with Jay Henderson, the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Acoustic (formerly Watson Customer Engagement – purchased from IBM by Centerbridge Partners, and rebranded in 2019 as Acoustic). He talks about how machine learning algorithms should be seen as working together with marketer...

Phil Phelan is the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Publicis Sapient Australia and sits down to talk about the role of creating ecosystems and marketplaces not just for startups but for existing legacy businesses wanting to innovate and grow in their category. He shares the differences between product and services and the blend of the two including Financial Services, Utilities and Automob...

Bobbi Mahlab is the Founder and Managing Director at Mahlab and is one of the two business executives who bought the Mentor Walks program from Asia to Australia. She discusses how the Mentor Walks program started and why they decided to bring the program home to Australia and shares some of the main issues for women working in media that have been shared during these mentor walks with a wide range...

In this special conversation on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on Marketing, Anton Buchner talks with Brad Bennett, the Executive Strategy Director at MercerBell - Australia’s leading Customer Experience Agency™. Hailing from the USA, Brad talks about his tech background and how it is helping him shape customer focussed marketing solutions for the new wild west arena of Artificial Intellig...

Kath Blackham is the CEO of VERSA, a digital agency specialising in voice, AR and AI and she shares the challenges facing independent digital agencies like VERSA and how she has worked to overcome these challenges to attract and retain high-quality talent through interagency job swaps, international conferences and innovative working hours and conditions such as the four day week for which the age...