The WARC Podcast

AB InBev's CMO, Marcel Marcondes, discusses creative effectiveness, iconic brand focus, consumer behavior shifts post-pandemic, simplifying the brand portfolio, embracing marketing changes, receiving awards in creative marketing, sponsorship strategies, personalized advertising, AI integration, and brand safety in marketing.

Mark Ritson, founder of Marketing Week's Mini MBA, discusses the shift in focus from creativity to marketing effectiveness, importance of strategic foundation in creativity, branding expertise, and the impact of AI and synthetic data on marketing strategies.

WARC’s Amy Rodgers talks to Harjot Singh, Global Chief Strategy Officer at McCann Worldgroup and Islam ElDessouky, Global VP Creative at Coca-Cola. Discussing the themes from the winning campaigns from the Creative Effectiveness Lions and insights from the judging room.

On the final day of Cannes Lions, WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin discusses marketing's relevancy problem with Najoh Tita-Reid and Leonid Sudakov from Mars Petcare. McCann's Grand Effie winner, Jamie Peate shares insights on why humour is back. Finally, WARC's David Tiltman share his highlights from the Creative Impact track.

On day four of Cannes Lions, WARC's Rica Facundo talks to Instacart's Laura Jones and Karen Crum from EY-Parthenon about redefining the value of brand. ANA's Latha Sarathy and WARC's Adi Kishore talk about new creative effectiveness research, and Gurdeep Puri (The Effectiveness Partnership) and Kawal Shoor shares insights into the factors driving India's marketing success.

On day three of Cannes Lions, WARC's Anna Hamill talks to Diageo's Grainne Wafer and Callum McCahon from Born Social about Guinness's brand transformation. WARC's Lena Roland and Mark Pollard from Sweathead discuss the future of strategy, and Oxford University's Andrew Stephen and the Unsterotype Alliance's Sara Denby share new research proving the power of progressive advertising.

On day two of Cannes Lions, WARC's  Alex Brownsell speaks with e.l.f Beauty CMO Kory Marchisotto and Dr Marcus Collins about why brand isn't dead, Adam Morgan from eatbigfish makes the case against dull and beige ads, and MSQ's Justin Cox shares new research on the power of rituals.

On day one of WARC's daily episodes from Cannes Lions 2024, WARC editors speak with Luana Bumachar and Elizabeth Paul about the viral ad for Solo Stoves with Snoop Dogg, Duncan Meisel from Clean Creatives shares how climate change is impacting creativity, followed by LinkedIn's Mimi Turner and Bain's Jamie Cleghorn on exciting new B2B research.

WARC's SVP of content David Tiltman speakd to LIONS' chief content officer Paul Kemp-Robertson about the Creative Impact content programme, which will be taking place across the 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Later they speak to Devika Bulchandani, Global CEO at Ogilvy about her take on creative effectiveness and what she’s hoping to see at the Festival. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

Former LinkedIn employees turned entrepreneurs, Jon Lombardo and Peter Weinberg, discuss how synthetic data is revolutionizing marketing research. They explore the advantages of synthetic data in marketing, such as cost savings and speed, and its role in democratizing access to market research. The conversation also covers utilizing synthetic research for segmentation and testing marketing strategies to make better strategic decisions.