Managing Marketing

Jack Bensimon is the Founding Partner and Board Chair of Tadiem and the co-founder of the award-winning agency Bensimon Byrne, and he talks about the issue of clients’ conflicts of interest. There appears to be a massive discrepancy in the way companies work with their consulting partners and how they work with their advertising agencies. On the one hand, consultants are often chosen and valued fo...

Patrick Rowe is the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, a powerhouse agency brand considered one of the most successful in the world. Founded in 1970 in London, it became known as the place where nothing is impossible. It also became the largest advertising agency in the world, with offices worldwide. The advertising industry is often accused of being obsessed with the new and bedazzled by cha...

Pete Randeria is the Director of Global Innovation at Treasury Wine Estates. With a long history in agencies and roles in TWE that have straddled advertising, marketing and product innovation, Pete had great observations and wisdom to share about the balance between product innovation, packaging, brand experience and communications that has to be upheld in this challenging and complex category, ma...

Skye Lambley is the Chief Executive Officer of the public relations group Herd MSL, and sustainability consultancy SalterBaxter.  While some in advertising may think of public relations as what you do support their advertising campaign, the truth is more organisations are looking to public relations as an effective way to not just communicate with but influence a wide range of essential audiences...

Laura Aldington, Jon Austin and Simone Gupta are also known as Supermassive, the new agency launched recently and with a bang in Australia. In a wide-ranging discussion, the team shares their story, inspirations, views on challenges and enablers in the market, and what drives them forward in helping redefine the advertising and agency landscape for the better. Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.app...

Jason Tonelli is the CEO of Zenith Media in Australia and New Zealand. He believes there is an opportunity for media agencies to be smarter in strategy and planning and media trading.  There was a time when media was all about the buying. For some advertisers (and their procurement teams), it still is. But with the rise of technology and the impact this is having on media, increasingly, the discus...

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 impact artificial intelligence technology has on advertising agencies of all types and the effect it will have on agency fees. While much of the industry discussion about AI has b...

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...