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Future Proof — 233 episodes

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How Does Streaming Video Drive Cultural Strategy for Brands?

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Crossing the Rubicon: Can AI Make Brands Stronger Without Killing Creativity?

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What is the Evolving Role of Video and Trusted Creator Voices?

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, L'Oréal

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Brett Hannath, Chief Marketing Officer, Intel

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Don McGuire, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Drew Panayiotou, Chief Marketing Officer, Keurig Dr Pepper

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Jonathan Adashek, SVP, Marketing and Communications, IBM

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Mark Weinstein, Chief Marketing Officer, Hilton

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Michael Manske, Chief Brand, Marketing and Communications Officer, Polestar

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Kantar BrandZ 2026: A conversation with Esi Eggleston Bracey, Marketing Leader

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Destination Effectiveness: How Virgin Atlantic Set a Clear Course for Growth

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What Happens to Your Brand when LLMs Become the Gatekeeper?

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How Do You Future Proof a 180 Year Old Luxury Brand?

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Designing For Success: Behavioural Fuels, Frictions and Innovation That Sticks

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Beyond LLMs: where AI, Culture and Humans Redefine Innovation

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Crafting Early Advantage: Human Insights + AI as Engines of Innovation

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Shopping and Sipping: The Future of Beverage Shopper Marketing

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Booking the Feeling: Emotion, Brand & the Connected Trip at Booking.com

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Shaping Marketing Effectiveness in 2026 with Google

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How AI and Neuroscience Are Changing Marketing

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Customer Experience in 2026: Balancing AI Innovation with Human Connection

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How Gaming Is Up-Leveling Marketing: Lessons from Discord’s Community-Driven Approach

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Humanising innovation: customer-centric transformation at Zurich Insurance

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The Power of In-Scene Media in Modern Advertising with Cory Treffiletti

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How KFC is sticking with what works, and sticking with chicken: The Best Christmas Ads 2025

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The Future of Spending: Inside Visa’s Consumer Intelligence

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Unlocking the Power of Out-of-Home Advertising with Dan Levi

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TikTok’s Evolution: From Authenticity to Attention with Esteban Ribero

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How Carlsberg Britvic puts product experience at the heart of innovation R&D with Dr. Caroline Withers

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How do you leverage AI for a full picture of creative effectiveness? With Anastasia Leng

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Reimagining Wellness: Creativity, AI and Trust in Health with Claudia Calori

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Meta: How AI is transforming advertising with Derya Matras

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From Pause to Play: Mapping Amazon Ads Canvas with Chris Mullins

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Beyond the Funnel: Reimagining B2B Marketing with Ty Heath & Caroline Day

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How does Reckitt harness AI to drive transformation?

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From Rides to Reach: Mobility Media Unlocked with Matt Trandall

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Signals of Impact: Rethinking Creative, Measurement, and Gen Z with Crystal Worthem and Sapphire Yi-Dyer

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Innovating with creative consistency: Diageo’s design discipline for lasting brand impact

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Why being Daring with Dairy matters to Arla

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The Future of Advertising in a Retail-Driven AI World

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From launch to impact: insights for innovation success

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2025: A conversation with Georgia Balinsky, Vice President, Global Head of Brand & Creative, RBC

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2025: A conversation with Marcel Marcondes, Global Chief Marketing Officer, AB InBev

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2025: A conversation with Abhinav Kumar, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Tata Consultancy Services

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Navigating Consumer Trust in Advertising

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The Power of Meaningful Difference in Marketing

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Paws and Effect: Marketing Strategies in the Canine World

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The Real Magic Cannes Creative Brand of the year, Coca-Cola with Islam ElDessouky

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From FOMO to Function: How Should Marketers Leverage GenAI?

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How can marketers get the most out of their digital campaigns?

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Future Proof: Why marketers need to evolve their approach to Brand Performance

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How the Streaming Experience is Evolving for Viewers and Marketers

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What are Kantar’s key Marketing Trends for 2025?

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This Year Next Year: What’s going on in Advertising and Media?

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Brand Strategy Unpacked: Unearthing the essence of Eurovision

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Brand Strategy Unpacked: Connecting via Collabs and Culture with Malibu

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The secrets behind innovative strategies and partnerships at Iceland

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Unlocking Innovation: Insights from Unilever’s Philippa Tilley

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Brand Strategy Unpacked: Creating collabs for growth with Iceland and Myprotein

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TikTok Shop: Revolutionising e-commerce with live shopping and innovation

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Unlocking Bold Growth: Insights from PepsiCo’s Mustafa Shamseldin

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The Best Christmas Ads 2024: From Elves to Ads - TUI’s Toby Horry on Brand Building

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The Best Christmas Ads 2024: Cracking the Code of Creative Effectiveness with McCann

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The Best Christmas Ads 2024: Cadbury’s Secret Santa Campaign

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Talkmobile: How a ruthlessly simple customer experience delivered market leading growth

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Creative strategies for Magnum with Denise Van Strien and Camilla Facin

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Navigating the future of digital advertising with Meta's Richard Lloyd

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HSBC UK: Banking on bold authentic marketing for success

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Unveiling the power of behavioural science in marketing: A deep dive with Richard Shotton

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Tech frustrations and chocolate breaks, a conversation with KitKat’s creative minds

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Decoding IKEA’s marketing success

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How can CMOs build a more trusted media landscape?

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From This Year to Next: Predicting Media’s Future with GroupM’s Kate Scott-Dawkins

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How to harness Generative AI for creative effectiveness?

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How should brands Find New Space?

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Why do brands need to Be More Present?

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Why do brands need to Predispose More People?

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Why do brands need to Be Meaningfully Different to More People to drive growth?

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AI 2030: Provoking insights for smarter and more efficient outcomes

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Marginal to mainstream innovation: How looking to the 1% could unlock your future brand growth

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What challenges do CMOs face today? A conversation with Mark Read, CEO of WPP

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2024: A conversation with Marcel Marcondes, Global Chief Marketing Officer, AB InBev

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2024: A conversation with Sumit Virmani, Chief Marketing Officer, Infosys

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2024: A conversation with Kirti Singh, Chief Analytics, Insights and Media Officer, P&G

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Kantar BrandZ Insights from Brand Builders 2024: A conversation with Jane Wakely, Chief Consumer and Marketing Officer, PepsiCo

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How Reckitt uses attention to elevate their campaigns from playback to payback

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How Guinness (nitro)surged their innovation

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The secrets behind winning products with Product of the Year

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Connected Innovation: How to innovate differently

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How viral humour boosted one of Nordics’ leading travel brands

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Brand Strategy Unpacked: Cracking the Cadbury Code

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Content production in 2024 and beyond

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Crispy is the key to creative effectiveness at KFC

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Behavioural science in practice: Unlocking the magic

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Learning from TikTok’s growth story

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How better creative boosts business

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Reimagining fragrances: Breaking the rules with Felix Frowein

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Bloom & Wild’s Story of Gifting Innovation

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Revolutionising marketing with Kantar's AI-Powered insights

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Future Proof: Does digital advertising earn its keep?

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Insights from Brand Builder Series – A conversation with Ravi Santhanam, CMO, Head Corporate Communications, HDFC Bank

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39. How behavioural science can drive commercial innovation

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Insights from Brand Builder Series – A conversation with Stuart Spencer, Group Chief Marketing Officer, AIA

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Insights from brand builders series – A conversation with Stephan Czypionka, VP Global Marketing Performance, Coca-Cola

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Insights from Brand Builder Series – A conversation with Martin Renaud, Exec VP, Global CMO and Sales Officer, Mondelēz

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Insights from Brand Builders Series – A conversation with Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, L’Oréal

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38. Machines scoring Machines: Exploring AI-Generated creative in advertising

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37. Reinventing Baileys for a new generation

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36. How does using facial coding in ad testing help create better ads?

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35. Is your imagination fuelling growth?

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34. How Cinépolis used humour to bring audiences back to the cinema after COVID-19

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33. How to innovate differently in a crowded market

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32. How venture hubs drive innovation and benefit business?

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31. Future Proof: The power of innovation in driving brand growth.

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30. How can CMOs prepare for success in 2023?

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29. What does media look like in 2023?

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28. Can being creative drive profitability?

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27. Why representation matters to brands

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26. How should the worlds of culture, technology and policy interact?

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25. How can brands better understand and improve the menopause experience?

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24. Why does brand safety on Twitter matter to CMOs?

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23. Did we mention attention?

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22. How brands are improving ad performance

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21. What is truth in marketing?

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20. Aldi & McCann Manchester: The power of entertaining advertising to solve business challenges and propel growth.

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19. Future Proof: Why does Mark Ritson urge brands to go beyond salience?

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18. What will the future insights organisation look like?

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17. How can brands get sustainability in advertising right?

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16. Can we make the media industry more inclusive?

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15. Was advertising better in the past?

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14. What can we learn from Shell’s purpose journey?

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13. Why is Mercado Libre such a good place to advertise?

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12. How does Walmart connect digital and physical retail experiences?

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11. Why should advertisers embrace in-content advertising?

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10. How do you launch a sustainable brand?

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9. How can sponsored entertainment support brand purpose?

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8. How will African brands thrive?

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7. How does Unilever approach sustainable innovation?

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6. What’s next for retail?

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5. How does a global agency stay agile?

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4. How can you use AI for better outcomes in media?

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3. How can social influencers help brands?

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2. What is changing in the world of advertising?

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1. How will radio and out-of-home advertising evolve?

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73. How can brands make the most of Snapchat?

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BONUS: What’s next for marketing? with Mark Read, WPP

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72. Where do great ads thrive?

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71. How did BlackRock find its purpose?

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70. What is authentic marketing?

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69. What makes JD.com a winning brand?

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68. Why do attitudes about gender equality matter?

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67. What makes a winning advert?

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66. How has COVID-19 challenged media agencies?

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65. What does the future hold?

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64. Why should brands care where their ads appear?

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63. Why should brands embrace the circular economy?

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62. What does it mean to be color brave?

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61. How do we make fashion sustainable?

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60. Why should you care about TikTok?

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59. What happened to Cannes Lions?

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58. How is radio coping with COVID-19?

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57. How does politics affect brands in America? with Joel Benenson

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56. Does conversational AI give us better insights?

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55. How can search data build a winning content strategy?

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BONUS: How will COVID-19 affect media and advertising?

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54. How do consumer conversations affect your brand?

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BONUS: How is COVID-19 impacting customer experience, and financial services?

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BONUS: How can brands survive COVID-19?

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BONUS: What lessons can brands learn from China?

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BONUS: How will COVID-19 change global healthcare?

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BONUS: What is the impact of COVID-19 on grocery and retail?

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53. What is the future of sustainable urban mobility?

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52. What’s not going to happen in marketing?

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51. What’s next in media and marketing?

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50. What’s changing media agencies in 2020?

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49. How do you transform marketing in a 500-year-old business?

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48. Why does marketing need to be sustainable?

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47. How can you make the most of chatbots?

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46. What makes marketers inspiring?

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45. How can you make the world a better place?

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44. How do you produce news in a digital world?

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43. How do you delight Indian banking customers?

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42. How can marketing change a company’s culture?

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41. Are marketers realising the full potential of AI and machine learning?

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40. What is the value of creativity? with Perry Nightingale

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39. Why does the adtech market need to change?

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38. What is the future of automotive? with Mat Heinl

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37. Why does eBay advertise on TV? with Gareth Jones

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36. Can a machine be creative? with Perry Nightingale

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35. Can marketing make us enjoy food more? with Dr Cammy Crolic

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34. How can we make online advertising better? featuring Teads

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33. How can brands make the most of Pinterest? with Jon Kaplan

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32. What’s changed in the agency world? with MediaCom’s Nick Lawson

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31. Why is Spotify getting into podcasts? with Danielle Lee

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30. What’s it like to work at Facebook? with Steve Hatch

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29. What makes a game-changing CMO? with Nadine Dietz

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28. How can marketers bring more joy to their work?

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BONUS: Why should we care about brand value?

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27. How does Google balance creativity and technology?

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Live at Cannes Lions: Does the ad industry need to be overhauled? with Cindy Gallop

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Live at Cannes Lions: Why should creatives embrace AI?

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Live at Cannes Lions: In a tech-centric world, how does Unilever retain its place in the cultural conversation?

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Live at Cannes Lions: What’s more important, credibility or reach? with @AllThatIsShe & Whalar

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Live at Cannes Lions: Why are we still talking about brand purpose? with P&G

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26. What can advertising do about “toxic masculinity”?

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25. How much branding can you put in branded content?

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24. What is the best way to achieve business growth?

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23. How can brands get gender right?

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22. How do you name a corporate brand? with Essity

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21. Future Proof LIVE: What Women Want? Panel Discussion at Saïd Business School

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20. How does the BBC use audience data?

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19. Should marketers invest in AI?

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BONUS: What Women Want? Exhibition Audio Tour by Kantar

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18. What is the business case for marketing?

216

17. Is advertising diverse enough?

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16. What is the future of news?

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15. Can a business be truly customer-centric?

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14. What is Twitter’s role in the media mix?

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BONUS: How will the media landscape change in 2019?

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13. How can businesses close the narrative gap?

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12. Are brands paying enough attention to audio?

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11. Future Proof LIVE: What is marketing’s role in the boardroom?

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10. What can marketers learn from the dark web?

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9. Is advertising creative enough?

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8. What is the future of radio?

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7. Is voice technology the next big thing?

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6. Do Facebook adverts work?

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5. What skills do marketers really need?

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4. Where are all the women in advertising?

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3. Can brands use technology to become more ‘human’?

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2. What does ‘trusting a brand’ actually mean?

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1. Are social influencers worth the investment?