Managing Marketing

Mike Rebelo is the CEO of Publicis Groupe Australia and New Zealand. For almost a decade he has been working on and working with an integrated agency model and he shares the lessons learned along the way. With digital media and technology we saw the rise of the specialist agencies, then a trend back to the generalists, better known as the one-stop-shop. But more recently we are witnessing the rise...

Peter Levitan is the agency whisperer with experience managing the world’s largest advertising agency, building his own agency, founding two Internet companies, and consulting with over 100 ad agency clients. He can help you build a happy, healthy, unignorable, successful lead generation agency. ​​In a world where some may argue there is already a glut of advertising agencies, Peter argues there i...

Arthur Fleischmann, Group CEO and Country Manager for WPP, with the experience of not just launching and growing his own successful agency, but also managing one of the major holding company groups here in Canada. In the past two decades, we hear reports CMO tenure is getting shorter, some reporting it at less than 2 years on average and that agency tenure is headed the same way. But it is not jus...

Leah Power is the Executive Vice President of the Institute of Canadian Agencies and the lead on the development of the Qualification Based Selection For Agencies. This episode picks up from the conversation with Scott Knox, the President and CEO of the Institute of Canadian Agencies, and explores the solutions for clients wanting a better way to select an advertising agency or any type.  Leah sha...

Scott Knox is the President and CEO of the Institute of Canadian Agencies, with a mission is to Amplify, Protect and Transform the agency sector through advocacy, awards, community, consultancy, insight, networking, research and training. But when it came to pitching, instead of either publishing another industry guideline on how to do it, or joining the chorus of those wanting to ‘ditch the pitch...

Liam Walsh is a Consultant, an Equities Investor, Executive Coach, Digital Media Guru, aspiring ally for gender equality, a tad Dyslexic (but not heaps) and now an author, with the release of his book The Corporate Charade, why not just be yourself at work?  Since the COVID pandemic, there have been major changes in the way we work and continued discussion and conjecture on the way we should work...

Jeremy Taylor, Managing Director, TrinityP3 UK, and host Gina Larter, Business Director, TrinityP3 UK, recently attended the AdForum Consultant Summit in New York City. This is an annual opportunity for the pitch consultants from around the world to meet with the agencies, (global, regional and local) and hear the plans they have for the coming year. Jeremy and Gina sit down to discuss the emergin...

Jo Reilly is Head of Marketing and Customer at AustralianSuper. David and Jo talk about her role in evolving AustralianSuper’s communications and the integration of marketing and customer into both her role and internal teams, and the delicate balance of micro and macro challenges faced by consumers trying - or not really trying - to save for their retirement, and how best to tread the line of bes...

Chris Gilroy has built his career with the a keen focus on the tp and bottom line through retailing in media, telecommunications, big box retail and building a global retail network. For all the clichés about retail, the fact is that retail marketing is more sophisticated and more accountable that ever. The proximity to the point of the sale and the moment of truth makes retail marketing particula...

Mahesh Enjeti is the "Thinkerer" at Auracle World, Co-Founder at BrandRead.i.y® and Managing Director at S A I Marketing Counsel. On his return visit to Managing Marketing, we discuss the role of strategy in marketing and why strategy is more important for marketers than ever before.  If you listen to industry conversations, strategy plays an important part in marketing. Most marketing organisatio...

Claire Fenner is the newly appointed CEO of Atomic 212, one of the most established media indies in Australia. David and Claire discuss what the role of CEO means in today’s industry and why that has to be different to what it was 10 years ago; agency brand reputation building and re-building; the hot topics of media measurement and impending changes to the Privacy Act; and what it all means for t...

Sue Blatchford, co-founder of PayPerClick Australia, is a results driven digital marketers who has helped build businesses and drive growth. She is also the author of the book The Digital Marketing Download 20: 1 – 20 years’ experience in one day. While it may feel like we have been talking about digital marketing and digital media forever, the fact is it’s only the last two decades. Before digita...

Nicola Mansfield is the founder and chief thinker at The Design Thinkers, a brand and experience business change maker. Nicola’s career commenced as a designer at global brand consultancy Wolff Olins, she has also been the Global Creative Director at natural skincare brand, Jurlique, Director of experience design and brand at Deloitte and Managing Director at Interbrand Australia. While marketing...

Carolyn Bendall is CMO at Swinburne University of Technology. David and Carolyn discuss her transition from Financial Services to Higher Education; which is best, de-centralized or centralized marketing structures; managing vulnerable students through a pandemic with the aid marketing and tech; contrasting feelings about ChatGPT and its predicted rise; and the role of cultural leadership to get th...

Steve O’Farrell is co-founder and Managing Director of The Royals, one of the most recognised independent agencies in Australia. David and Steve talk about the importance of agency branding, client-agency dynamics in the post COVID world, the attractiveness of the industry to new talent, what Steve would say to his 2010 self and the best advice for anyone else thinking about hanging their own name...

David Little is a Marketing Procurement specialist with almost two decades of experience. With a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, David entered procurement sourcing mechanical and electrical engineering hardware. When TrinityP3 founder, Darren Woolley first met David, he was procuring ‘point of sale’ refrigeration before being thrown in the deep end of the poo...

Adam Washington is the CEO of the full-service customer experience agency CX Lavender and joins us to unpicking the world of customer and user experience. The marketing industry is well known for its TLAs – Three Letter Acronyms such as RTB, CPM, B2B, SEO and more.  But there is a class of TLAs, the two-letter acronyms that have increasingly populated the marketing vernacular like UX, UI and CX. M...

Gina Larter is the newest Business Director to join TrinityP3 UK. But she also has experience in managing agencies, consulting with advertisers, and being a respected Executive Coach, Trainer, Mentor, and non-executive director, making her ideally placed to discuss the impact of pitching on agencies. The agency pitch process has come under close-scrutiny and vocal industry criticism, particularly...

Jamima White is the General Manager of Marketing at Target Australia. Target is an iconic brand, operating in a category that in the last 20 years has seen disruption like no other - from the rise of ecommerce through to COVID and beyond. Amongst other things, David and Jamima discuss Target’s brand, its reinvigorated positioning, the pivot from bricks and mortar to ecommerce, the importance of pr...

Sam Devlin is the CEO and co-founder of The Careers Department. It is a SAAS content platform that reaches 1.4 million Australian familities through schools across the country. Here, industries can educate, inspire and engage students and their parents and teachers into understanding and considering a career in this category. Instead of competing for the university graduates in marketing and commu...

Steve Harrison is an award-winning copywriter, creative director, a Doctor of Philosophy, and a best-selling author of the book “Can’t Sell, Won’t Sell - Why adland has stopped selling and started saving the world. Steve talks about what inspired him to write the book and explores how the concept of purpose in marketing has derailed the advertising industry. He shares his views on how issues such...

Shyaire Ganglani and Seamus Fagan are Associate Creative Directors, the creative leadership team at All of Nothing. This B-Corp-certified advertising agency creates the big ideas for people and brands the world needs. They share their creative approach to purpose marketing, going beyond authentic, sincere, earnest and good, to engage communities in the underlying issue and positive purpose of the...

Melissa Fein is the CEO of IPG Media Agency, Initiative Australia, a Director of Swimming Australia and a Board Member of Media Federation Australia. This year she was also recognised as the Mumbrella Industry Leader of The Year, the Woman of the Year and number two on the B&T Women in Media Power List, and number six on the MediaWeek Agency Top 50 Power List. Clearly, she is doing something very...

Damon Stapleton is the Chief Creative Officer of The Monkeys and Accenture Song, New Zealand and author of the blog Damon’s Brain. He is highly credentialled, with two D&AD Black Pencils and seventy Cannes Lion Awards for creativity. He has creatively led agencies such as DDB ANZ, Saatchi & Saatchi Australia and TBWA Hunt Lacaris in South Africa. With such a creative pedigree, he recently shared o...

Without the looming economic challenges, marketers have already been facing major issues on the media front. Media measurement, ad fraud, brand safety, transparency, performance metrics, media GHG emissions and more. Fiona Johnston, Chief Client Officer and the Chief Executive Officer, Danny Bass, have reunited at dentsu’s media portfolio and discussed why this is the right time to address these i...