The WARC Podcast

As part of WARC Marketer's Toolkit, David Sandstrom - Chief Marketing Officer at payments giant Klarna - spoke to WARC's Anna Hamill about the role marketing has played in the company's growth story, including product, CX, media strategy and AI. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com...

WARC's David tiltman and Aditya Kisore talk about the key takaways from this year's Marketer's Toolkit report. Discussing capitalising on the economic reset, why customer service is at an all time low, and the unexplored opportunity with atomised consumers. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://...

WARC's Rica Facundo talks to Sweathead's Mark Pollard, Gigil's Nanais Hernandez and Oddefy's Leandro De Los Santos about the existential crisis facing strategists about the role and value of strategy - a major theme from WARC's Future of Strategy Report. Discussing how and why strategists need to be deft translators and how to train younger strategists. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing an...

WARC's Alex Brownsell and James Mcdonald talk about the key takeaways from the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. Discussing why UK adspend is growing, which categories are doing the best, and how the UK compares to some international markets. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   h...

WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin talks to Ad Net Zero's US director John Osborn, and lead climate science and policy advisor Bill Wescott. Discussing the creative and scientific perspectives in coming up with realistic steps to a more sustainable way of doing business. To find out more about Ad Net Zero, click here . Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newslet...

WARC’s Anna Hamill and Sam Peña-Taylor discuss three of the biggest narratives shaping earnings season: how the US election and China’s economic downturn are impacting brands, and the road ahead for Starbucks. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com/en/latest    Subscribe to...

WARC's Aditya Kishore and Stephanie Siew talk about the recent report titled 'Building Belief: How to instill a culture of creative effectiveness'. Discussing the ABE framework, 3+ marketers and what that means, and why marketers can start their journey even without sign-off from their CEO. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subsc...

WARC’s Alex Brownsell talks about a new cross-industry initiative that pledges to make the advertising world a better, more productive, more creatively-driven place. Discussing this project with one of the co-founders, Brian Jacobs, Denise Turner, CEO at Route Research, and consultant and author Michael Farmer. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily news...

WARC's Rica Facundo discusses new research and strategies unveiled at SXSW that will help marketers become more effective. Featuring interviews from Wavemaker's James Boardman and Saïd Business School's Felipe Thomaz about why understanding “infuenceability” closes the effectiveness gap, WPP's Katie Rigg Smith on why brands need to scenario plan to tap into the changing demographic of Australia, a...

In the second of two episodes covering the IPA Effectiveness Conference, WARC's Anna Hamill speaks to Tom Roach (Jellyfish) about share of model, Leo Rayman (EdenLab) and Jo McClintock (Trainline) talk about demand switching for environmental impact, and ITV's Sameer Modha and Kate Waters discuss their research on the present value of future spend. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and adv...

In the first of two episodes covering the IPA Effectiveness Conference, WARC's Anna Hamill speaks to System 1's Andrew Tindall about the magic of creative consistency, Prof. Sophie Scott joins to discuss why humour is so effective, and Billion Dollar Boy's Becky Owen breaks down the next era of creator marketing. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily ne...

WARC's David Tiltman talks to WARC Media's Alex Brownsell and Celeste Huang about the latest Global Ad Trends report on Baby Boomers. Discussing Baby Boomer media habits, their social platform preferences, and why this cohort hates ads the most. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com...

WARC's US commissioning editor Cathy Taylor talks with Neil Parker, chief strategy officer and co-founder of Co:Collective about the company’s research on how and why purpose-led companies succeed not only in doing the right thing, but in terms of business metrics. The company conducted qualitative research by interviewing a number of established brands and organizations, including Hewlett-Packard...

WARC’s Cathy Taylor talks with Havas’ Jon Waite and Lumen’s Mike Follett about new attention research that details the power of aggregate attention in delivering results. The research, which concentrated on display advertising and was performed in partnership with Brand Metrics, looked at 9,000 brand uplift studies, and 11 years of eye-tracking data, providing scale to the understanding of how att...

WARC's David Tiltman speaks to Lena Roland about the recently released future of strategy report. Discussing how strategists feel about how their discipline is recognised, fixes to these challenges, and how AI is affecting strategy. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com/en/latest&nb...

WARC's Anna Hamill speaks to AI experts Dr Kimberley Hardcastle and The&Partnership's Oliver Feldwick about about what's working in generative artificial intelligence and whether the current hype matches reality. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com/en/latest    Subscribe...

The third episode in a special three-part series that looks at the winners of the WARC Awards, highlighting work that worked and asking what you can learn from it, particularly from a creative effectiveness point of view. Discussing Lay’s democratising technology to help farmers fight climate change, Vanish’s Me, My Autism & I, and how Sage took business software from B2B to human-to-human. Stay u...

WARC’s Amy Rodgers talks to DAIVID’s founder and CEO Ian Forrester about the power of emotion in advertising. Discussing which emotions over index in the strongest commercial campaigns. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com/en/latest    Subscribe to The WARC Podcast: Apple...

The second episode in a special three-part series that looks at the winners of the WARC Awards, highlighting work that worked and asking what you can learn from it, particularly from a creative effectiveness point of view. Discussing McDonald's Big enough to make a difference, Ujjivan’s An envelope that sealed the fate of women, and Nescafé’s Brewing coffee culture in tea-drinking India. Stay up-t...

The third episode in a three-part series exploring the most important trends influencing global consumers. WARC's Catherine Driscoll talks to Chris Beer, senior data journalist at GWI, and Ananda Roy, SVP global thought leadership Europe at Circana. Discussing the improved positivity in consumer spending and the resurgence of live events in Europe. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and adv...

The first episode in a special three-part series that looks at the winners of the WARC Awards, highlighting work that worked and asking what you can learn from it, particularly from a creative effectiveness point of view. Discussing Heinz and Absolut’s Absolutely Heinz, Lacoste’ Unexpected encounters, and Mercado Libre’s Handshake Hunt. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising new...

The second episode in a three-part series exploring the most important trends influencing global consumers. WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin talks to Chan Suh, Chief Digital Officer at Prophet and Luke Roberts, Strategy Director at Alma Miami. Discussing the impact of AI on shopper experience and the rise of multigenerational households. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with o...

WARC’s Ann Marie Kerwin and Cathy Taylor talk about the latest Guide on attention. Discussing viewability, metrics and measurements, examples of outcomes, and much more. Subscribers can read the articles for this guide here . Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News:   https://www.warc.com/en/latest  &nb...

The first episode in a three-part series exploring the most important trends influencing global consumers. WARC's Rica Facundo talks to Michael Patent, founder and president of the Culture Group and Emmanuel Sabbagh, Chief Strategy Officer TBWA\ Asia. Discussing the re-emergence of live events, and the rising temperatures across Asia Pacific. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertisi...

WARC's Paul Stringer talks to Wayne Blodwell, co-founder and CEO at Impact Media and Sascha Eder, CEO and co-founder at NewtonX. Discussing third-party cookies, programmatic transparency, sustainability, and investment trends between walled gardens and open web advertising. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter .   Subscribe to WARC News...