How to Fix Your Marketing Risk & Compliance Process
So your company just got called out by the competition regulator and fined for breaching the rules on advertising – meaning ads went out the door with misleading information and incorrect...
How Simple Fills the Gaps in the Marketing Process
Ever felt like you’re working in a team of one? Even in big marketing teams it can feel like you come in, do your job, and hand your work over to the next person with little idea of when you’ll see...
Why Intellectual Property is Crucial to your Brand’s Digital Marketing Success
It should be a simple matter to get a copy of a brand ad from the brand owner, right? Um, not so fast. As the Simple team discovered recently, whether a brand owns the intellectual property in their...
The Creative Brief: How Cochlear Gave Consumers a Hearing Test in Disguise
Listed hearing implant maker Cochlear was a well-known name in Australia due partly to the long history of the company and its founder Graeme Clark, who developed and implanted the world’s first...
Five Reasons to get a Marketing Operations Platform (aka MRM) this year
Take a minute to think about this thorny marketing operations issue: how much of your team’s marketing activity is really aligned with your strategic goals? For one client, prior to its appointment...
9 Tips for Getting a Better Return from your Martech Investment
A former colleague returned from an international secondment with his employer recently to find the local marketing team had invested in a number of new martech tools while he was away, none of which...
5 Reasons to Consider Creating An In-house Agency Now
You might remember the controversial Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner that was pulled by the soft drink maker shortly after it first went to air in 2017, effectively for trivialising serious social...
Why Marketing Operations Has Become Essential for Financial Services Teams in 2025
Marketing in financial services has always been complex, but 2025 brings a new level of pressure. Tightening regulations, rising compliance expectations, increased scrutiny from regulators, and a...
Why Every CMO Needs a Marketing Ops First Mate
Marketing operations is something of a misunderstood role, and can be a catch-all for the responsibilities that don’t fit easily into other senior marketing remits. “You get everything the chief...
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Understanding Marketing Operations and its growing importance.
What is Marketing Operations? Marketing operations (marketing ops) uses technology and data to create better experiences for customers and employees. It forms part of a broader change in how...
