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Our blog covers the future of marketing, creativity and technology. Topics include data driven advertising, performance marketing, ad automation, creative effectiveness, AI creativity, and marketing and advertising tips.
Scaling Creativity with Tech for Bose: Takeaways from Cannes Lions 2024
How Bose works with Automated Creative to both stay true to their brand ethos, creating authentic, human-produced branded assets, and harness technology to celebrate music at “speed and scale that we could never get to with just humans doing it.”
Marketing Inspiration #36.1: Top Tips from the Shiny New Object Podcast
Being pragmatic is key for marketing leaders, as is knowing how to harness existing talent to boost creative effectiveness.
Marketing Inspiration #35.4: How to Make It in Marketing
What's the right time frame to think of your career goals?
Marketing Inspiration #35.3: Advertisers Watching Ads
How effective is it to use children in marketing campaigns? Here are 3 different brand approaches.
Marketing Inspiration #35.2: AC Thoughts
Your weekly dose of data-driven marketing insights - AC thoughts on balancing media & creative agencies and Olympics-adjacent advertising.
Marketing Inspiration #35.1: Top Tips from the Shiny New Object Podcast
Why you need to listen to data scientists, but also understand what you'll use the data for.
Bridging Gaps Between Big and Scaling Brands: How to Improve Media & Creative Effectiveness
How big brands can learn from small ones and vice versa in the quest for optimising media budgets.
Marketing Inspiration #34.3: Advertisers Watching Ads
AWA often looks at case studies too, and here’s how three brands presented their own work in previous episodes.
Moving from “Fire & Forget” to In-Flight Mission Control for Data Driven Marketing
Discussing the benefits of live creative optimisation with AC’s Amy Wright.
Marketing Inspiration #34.2: AC Thoughts
Your weekly dose of data-driven marketing insights - AC thoughts on diversity & inclusion, launching Automated Intelligence, and creating a neutral space between media & creative
Marketing Inspiration #34.1: Top Tips from the Shiny New Object Podcast
Top data driven marketing advice from leaders from Mars and Cisco on the Shiny New Object podcast.
Marketing Inspiration #33.4: How to Make It in Marketing
Find out why you should maintain a sense of wonder in marketing.
Marketing Inspiration #33.3: Advertisers Watching Ads
Musical ads strike a chord with our AWA guests - check out how they reacted to these ones!
Marketing Inspiration #33.2: AC Thoughts on Media Budgets & Rebooting Creativity
In the latest Marketing Inspiration newsletter, read about rebooting creativity and media budget effectiveness, plus we celebrate a recent accolade for our founder.
D&I Is Not Just for HR: Why Diversity & Inclusion Matters for Marketers and What We All Can Do About It
You may know Jerry Daykin for his senior marketing roles in organisations like Beam Suntory, GSK and Diageo, but he is also a diversity ambassador for the WFA and the Non Executive Director of Outvertising. Here’s what he shared with us about the importance of D&I in the industry and our role in it.
Marketing Inspiration #33.1: Top Tips from the Shiny New Object Podcast
What can TV dramas teach marketers and why is there no end to editing for good communication?
Marketing Inspiration #32.4: How to Make It in Marketing
Rafael Espesani, Consumer Products Marketing - EMEA at Netflix, reminds us why it’s important to find things we love about our marketing jobs.
Marketing Inspiration #32.3: Advertisers Watching Ads roundup
Reviewing creative from Yeti, Heinz and Loewe in recent Advertsers Watching Ads episodes.
Marketing Inspiration #32.2: AC Thoughts on Sports Sponsorships & the Future of the Industry
Why we think sports sponsorship is so attractive to brands & how AI & automation are changing advertising, including our own well-being.
Marketing Inspiration #32.1: Top Tips from the Shiny New Object Podcast
Thinking of the humans behind data and keeping your analytical muscles from becoming atrophied - tips from the Shiny New Object podcast