Why AI is Too Important to Leave to Data Scientists
Marketers cannot leave data scientists to apply artificial intelligence to marketing data without themselves understanding how the technology works, or they risk misunderstanding their markets,...
4 Things We’ve Learned from Ongoing Global Financial Scandals
In 2019 there are some massive global issues for financial services marketers that will not go away. Every major market, from Europe to the US to Australia, seems to be affected.
Managing brand personality across channels crucial to trust: RMIT
Media disruption is impacting the habits of some audiences as often as every three months, with students reacting to trends and changing the way they use or consume social media as often as once a...
5 Signs Your Marketing Planning Process Needs an Update
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” That’s the claim of time management guru Alan Lakein. So why don’t more marketers look forward to...
5 Best Practices for Managing Marketing Approvals
Nine out of 10 marketers say approval delays are the top reason they miss deadlines. And while this might seem like a passing problem, it doesn’t take long to become embedded in the culture of an...
4 Ways AI Will Make Creative Briefs Better
Ad man David Ogilvy once famously said: “Give me the freedom of a tight brief.” A tight creative brief to agency creative teams eliminates time-wasters and tangential information, making it faster...
3 Things I Hate About Marketing
How much time does your marketing team spend doing marketing? If half your time is wasted planning campaigns in spreadsheets, briefing and amending creative via convoluted email trails, or creating...
4 Things We Learned About Implementing Agile Marketing
There’s no doubt agile marketing is a hot topic in marketing circles, and it’s easy to see why. In a world that’s moving faster, agile marketing helps build nimbleness and adaptability into marketing...
4 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Your Agency Relationships
Looking for better work from your creative agency? This can lead marketing teams to those all-consuming, headline-grabbing agency pitches that end up being expensive, time-consuming and inherently...
4 Marketing Technology Trends that will Transform Higher Education Marketing
“There’s a tsunami coming.” So said John Hennessy, President of Stanford University in a now-famous interview with The New Yorker in 2012. He was referring to how technology was about to radically...
