Managing Marketing

Susie Shaw, APAC CEO, We Are Social and Paul Edwards, an advisor to We Are Social’s new reputation practice and Director at John Connolly and Partners, discusses the evolving landscape of corporate communication and reputation management. There was a time corporate reputations were managed by corporate communications, shaping messages for shareholders, government and the public. But then social me...

Richard Benyon, CEO of the new SAAS start-up, Alliansis, discusses the importance of professional relationship management in marketing. He shares his experience developing relationship management technology and the role it plays in facilitating effective evaluations, the necessity of structured feedback, and the value of 360-degree feedback in understanding agency-client dynamics.  They also touch...

Kimberly Palmer, the marketing manager at Bendigo Woollen Mills, Australia's largest manufacturer of hand knitting yarn. Kimberley, joined just over a year ago and shares her insights in transforming the marketing strategies of the company, focusing on customer engagement, brand storytelling, and community building.  Despite economic challenges, Kimberly has achieved double-digit growth in direct-...

Cheryl Sing, founder of an Australian charity called The Laptop Initiative, a charity focused on bridging the digital divide by providing laptops to those in need, including disadvantaged youth, refugees, and victims of domestic violence.  Cheryl shares the origins of the initiative, the importance of technology access, and the impact of their campaigns.  She was horrified to hear that there was o...

Oksana Koriakova is a global marketing maverick; the Queen of Networking; and brings out-of-the-box thinking to every interaction. She is also the founder of Impero, and talks about the evolving landscape of branded merchandise and marketing strategies.  Oksana shares her unique approach to engaging audiences through memorable presentations and the importance of creating meaningful connections wit...

Jed Simpfendorfer is the Director of Strategy and a partner at T-Garage and the convener of the Melbourne Marketing Collective making him uniquely qualified as a strategist and researcher, plus he has the experience as a marketer working on some of the world’s most famous consumer package goods brands at both local and global levels.  Jed attempts to answer the difficult question, “what do markete...

Julia Stretch, Fenn Aldred and Liam Jenkins are three of the leaders of Friends of Rhonda, a network set up to provide community and belonging to queer people in our industry. In a wide ranging and candid discussion, Ellie and the team discuss what it is to be queer in advertising, and in life; queer representation in advertising and film; allyship, and what it means; the important role that Frien...

Lisa Overall, Managing Director of Creatalytics, a company that is closing the impact gap between media and message and maximising return on creative investment, discusses the intricate relationship between brand performance and creative optimization. She explains the role of creative analytics in enhancing media effectiveness, and the constraints that can drive creativity.  In 1964, when Marshall...

Jeremy Taylor, Managing Director and Mark Smith, Business Director of TrinityP3 UK discusses the complexities and challenges of the pitch process in the advertising industry an explore the notion that while many believe the pitch process is broken, it may simply need to evolve to better suit the modern landscape of marketing and media.  The conversation delves into the importance of chemistry in c...

Stewart Gandolf, CEO of the Healthcare Success Agency discuss the significant impact of the Baby Boomer generation on healthcare, the shift from traditional healthcare to a focus on wellness, and the rise of vaccine skepticism. They explore the evolution of healthcare marketing, the challenges of public trust, and the importance of specialization in marketing strategies for healthcare providers. ...

The Managing Marketing podcast is ten years old this week. In July 2015, the first episode went live, featuring a conversation between Darren Woolley and Shawn Callahan from Anecdote about the role of storytelling in advertising and marketing.  Since then, hundreds of guests have appeared on the Managing Marketing podcast, sharing their stories in conversations with various TrinityP3 hosts. Some o...

Jacquie Alley is the Chief Operating Officer of Mediastore and the Chair of Independent Media Agencies Australia (IMAA). Margie Reid is the Chief Executive Officer of possibly the most talked-about agency in the market, Thinkerbell. Together, they represent two distinct paths to owning and managing an independent agency business. Jacquie worked in the family business, on and off, for much of her c...

Kate Ferguson, CMO of the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation, discusses the transformative strategies implemented at the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation, focusing on integrated fundraising efforts, emotional storytelling, and innovative partnerships.  She highlights the significant impact of their campaigns, the importance of connecting with donors through authentic narratives, and the fu...

Chloe Hooper, founder and CEO of Barefeet Consultancy discusses the importance of redefining business purpose and values, the journey of self-belief, and the significance of authenticity in both personal and professional realms.  Chloe shares her transition from the agency landscape to consultancy, emphasizing the need for organizations to truly embody their values and the challenges of self-doubt...

Hilary Badger is the ECD at Leo Burnett Australia. Hilary and Ellie go on a conversational journey that takes in female creative leadership; our creative loves and pet peeves; the importance of diversity in marketing; the existential threat to our industry; our love of true creativity and why it should endure; the best use of AI to ensure that humans remain in the industry; and what clients and ag...

Darren O’Meara, Growth Director, and Troy Graham, Group Creative Director, experience marketing agency GPJ, also known as George P Johnson, share the state of play in the experience marketing industry.  They explore how brands are shifting from traditional advertising to creating immersive experiences that engage customers on a deeper level. The conversation highlights the importance of memory-mak...

In response to an increasingly vocal call from agencies around the world to ditch the pitch and trade media running headlines and opinion pieces claiming the pitch is broken and even dead, we launched The State of the Pitch Research in Australia in 2023. The second round of the State of the Pitch research was run in Australia between June and December last year. The report makes interesting readin...

Harry Lowes is the Director, ANZ Mid-Market, in the Global Business Group at Meta. After long stints at CommBank and Telstra in Australia and based in Singapore with Meta for the past 6 years, Harry discusses with Anton the big changes and exciting opportunities for marketers in an AI-fuelled landscape: speed and customisation at scale, better measurement techniques, and the evolving experiences w...

Leandro Perez, Senior Vice President and CMO of Salesforce ANZ, has recently joined the board of the AANA and has been at Salesforce for over 10 years including the role of VP Corporate Messaging and Content.  He talks with Anton about how humans are now working with AI agents to deliver better business, brand and customer experiences, and touches on some new ways of measuring quality and success,...

Three guests join to help navigate the marketing technological swamp, from TrinityP3, Dr Kate Gunby, Senior Consultant, Anton Buchner, Business Director and Adrian Treahy, Senior Consultant. There is no denying that technology continues to significantly disrupt business and particularly marketing, media and advertising. The explosion of digital advertising platforms, the rise of e-commerce, progra...

June Cheung is head of JAPAC at Scope 3, Public Benefit Corporation that focuses on decarbonizing media and advertising by providing a platform to visualize, measure, and reduce carbon emissions across the advertising ecosystem. But it is more than that. June shares the evolution of Scope3 from its foundation in 2022 with the aim to help the advertising industry reduce its carbon footprint, to fac...

Alex Myers is the Founder and CEO of Manifest Group, a leading B Corp certified brand communications agency with studios in London, Manchester, New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Melbourne. As an agency, Manifest is a driving force for better diversity, equality and inclusion in the creative industries which is powered by an all female managing partnership and creative director team globally. Al...

Bonnie MacTavish and Ahmed Meer, along with Christine Sultana, founded a Digital Product Studio called Nightjar. Bonnie and Ahmed talk about what guides their decision making in creating successful human connection with clients and for their customers when changing technology. The values, the clarity, the understanding of what to sacrifice, and how to achieve momentum.  Listen on Apple: https://po...

Emma Logan is the founder and chief connections officer of the Emma Logan Project, which helps marketers stop blending in and start standing out. Emma has spent the past 14 years as an insider to the upper echelons of marketing and media leadership, holding senior roles in Australia, the UK, and New Zealand.  Now, while there has never been a more exciting time to be a marketer, it is also one of...

Henry Innis is the co-founder and CEO of Mutinex. In a typically frank exchange of views, Henry and Ellie talk about the long evolution and more recent explosion of MMM; the strengths and weaknesses of modelling; the various challenges of making a modelling project sticky and meaningful; the art of pitching for MMM; the potential and complexity of the huge US market; working with MMM and agencies,...