The WARC Podcast

This week Lena Roland, Head of Content for WARC Strategy, and David Tiltman, WARC’s SVP Content discuss the key takeaways from the latest WARC Guide to The Consumer Crunch: Navigating inflation and the threat of recession. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week WARC talks budget setting and ROI with Grace Kite, founder and economist at magic numbers, and Paul Dyson, co-founder at Accelero. What is the relationship between what marketers spend, and what kind of return they can expect? Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, and James McDonald, WARC’s Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, examine the latest global ad spend forecasts and the impact of the economic slowdown. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week WARC talks anti-personalisation with marketing consultant Samuel Brealey and Michael Taylor, founder of Vexpower. With the death of the cookie and data privacy concerns, marketers are rethinking their approach to personalisation. Discussing how personalisation adds complexity to an ad campaign and may not be good value for money. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week we’re joined by Warwick Cairns, strategy partner at The Effectiveness Partnership and an editor of the state of creative effectiveness report. Warwick shares the key takeaways from the report; including how marketers are finding marketing effectiveness challenging, the importance of creating a unifying set of KPIs, and how vital it is that marketers make their case to the c-suite. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week WARC talks about one of the most ill-defined words in the marketing lexicon; brand. Claire Strickett, brand strategy director at Jellyfish, and Paul Bailey, brand strategy director at Halo explore what brand actually means, and why it is so important to use the word clearly. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week WARC talks engaging communities with the strategists behind two of the 2022 Creative Effectiveness Lions winners. Discussing tapping into fandoms, audience empowerment and successful partnerships, Wieden+Kennedy's Tass Tsitsopoulos and FCB Canada's Shelley Brown give insights into how connecting with communities led to their work's success.

This week WARC talks inflation and economic slowdown with J. Walker Smith and Karine Trinquetel - insights experts at market research company Kantar. Discusses new consumer sentiment data and how brands can focus on resilience and serving consumer needs. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week WARC talks American automotive marketing with Scotty Reiss, founder of A Girls Guide to Cars. Discusses the increased popularity of the electric vehicle in the US, and what problems that may arise for marketers in the face of inflation. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.

This week we’re joined by WARC’s Head of Media Alex Brownsell, who is the editor of the recent Global Ad Trends report on the rising cost of incremental reach. Alex explores the increased costs of advertising on linear TV, looks at this inflation across the media ecosystem, and explains how attention metrics are muddying these waters even further. Stay up-to-date with the latest marketing and advertising news with our free daily newsletter.