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The multi-platform player: Unpacking a new era of ARN

Why context matters: How Quest captured consumer intent to drive awareness boost, 20% sales uplift

Avoiding the efficiency trap: How marketing shifts from precision to prediction

Unpacking Nine’s ‘sofa to street’ proposition: How unmatched local scale and a cohesive cross-channel play will unlock commercial growth for Australian advertisers.

“Marketing for marketing’s sake is just irresponsible and wrong”: Former CMOs, advisors and board leaders, Stuart Tucker and Nicki Kenyon, on what it really takes to win hearts and minds in the c-suite

‘Because it matters’: How American Express is redefining what it means to back small business

Attention that translates into brand building plus sales punch: Digital out-of-home’s superpower

Agentic AI will reward strong brands built on trust, evidence and customer connection. Mediocre brands will perish

The CMO Awards podcast episode 16: Brand rejuvenation: CMO winners from Bank of Queensland and Uber unpack their playbooks for marketing effectiveness

CMO Awards Podcast Episode 15: Going for growth: AAMI, Wesfarmers Health on the case for behaviour change

Cultural affinity and long-term memory coding that drives future demand: How pairing high-attention Winter Olympic Games content and digital out-of-home delivered gold for brands

AI mental availability rules: serve bots and humans in single hit; collapse corporate affairs, comms, marketing, CX silos; kill slop – Chemist Warehouse nails it

Beyond the Tornado: Agentic AI's first year unpacked with lessons learned, governance wins, workflow traps, agent drift and why the organisations moving fastest are the ones that moved most carefully

Retail Media Builds Bridges: Canada’s leading department store Holt Renfrew on how marketing and merch alignment powers growth in demand, CX and profit

Coles ‘Down Down’ blockbuster not dead yet says brainchild Ted Horton after ACCC wins lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ price spikes - but agency economics breaking, attention metrics ‘pseudo science’, ad awards still warp industry

CMO Awards Podcast Episode 14: The cheeky challengers: CMO winners from amaysim, Australian Pork, Mountain Culture Beer Co on breaking the marketing and creative mould

CMO Awards Podcast Episode 13: Combatting the belief marketing is a discretionary spend

‘Age of the erratic’: How KFC’s Vanessa Rowed and Lyka’s Cam Luby are using MMM to navigate extreme volatility, bury dud products and replace them with better, faster

The CMO Awards Podcast Episode 12: Compounding benefits – playing the long game in brand and campaign strategy

The CMO Awards Podcast Episode 11: Selling the unreliable: How to build belief in bold marketing

‘Why hammer at an LLM spending tokens’: Pega’s Jonathan Tanner warns on AI hype; banks pivot to rules, context and real-time decisioning as CX, fraud prevention, and lifetime value collide

Family back as the new black: World chaos, kids’ killer schedules and personal screen rabbit holes trigger cross-generation co-viewing surge to fastest-growing audience segment for 2026

The CMO Awards Podcast Episode 10: Recasting marketing teams and capabilities in an AI world

Biggest consumer trust, sentiment shift since Covid; Gen Z leads as AI, deep fake content sows doubt – brand safety tools block swing to safer sources

Australia’s $6bn dull media tax: Quest for the Cost Per Meaningless Thousand, cheap reach sees brands sacrificing attention and impact, culminating in a 12X efficiency gap, finds Dr Karen Nelson-Field

‘All about rich reach’: ex-McDonald’s, Nike, Myer, Virgin, Rip Curl marketer builds owned media powerhouse at St Kilda’s with ‘mind blowing engagement’; Huge Chery auto gains prove it works

Omnicom Oceania chief Nick Garrett rejigs 100 brands, ditches old holdco media-creative model for CMO, CCO growth focus, takes on consultants with new upstream unit, reshapes 1000 staffers as specialist group-wide ‘T-shape leaders’, lobs Publics over Accenture Song as biggest competitive threat

The rise of live shopping: eBay taps fandom, collectibles obsessions, and the consumer’s penchant for entertainment-laden commerce with debut of eBay Live in Australia as global spending looks set to hit $2 trillion by 2030.

The CMO Awards Podcast Episode 9: Fountains of knowledge: CMOs on the power of mid-profession learning

‘Inherently reckless’: Retailers’ inflated ‘owned media’ asset values are ‘wreaking havoc’; telcos, finance the biggest laggards in first global report on $573bn owned media sector

Why CommBank CMO Jo Boundy thinks brand content is a full funnel ‘silver bullet’ as consumption jumps 11%; News Australia report says ‘content ecosystems’ morphing to ‘brand worlds’

Gary Vee is doing Superbowl ads for Kellogg’s next week – here’s why he won’t buy more TV, what he thinks of the Brits, Ritson, classic marketing and attention metrics … and when social media’s time is up

Redundancy repercussions: How marketing and media execs Liana Dubois, Katie Dally, Josh Slighting and Amy de Groot navigated the five stages of grief after job loss – then tapped lateral, imaginative thinking to make their next career choices

Marketing Gold: How Australian Redcross Lifeblood used TV to deliver a 120% increase in appointments, and KitKat made Gen Z penetration sales gains by taking ‘Have a Break’ to gamers

The rise of luxury retail media: Selfridges, Disney combine for unprecedented retail media Xmas campaign – as up-market department stores globally position for next growth wave from non-endemic brands

Australian vs UK marketers on attention, measurement, reach and cost – and why Australia is pulling ahead on ad effectiveness over efficiency

‘Video is rapidly coming down the pipe’: Michael Stephenson’s masterplan for ARN, what’s next, and a massive 12 months ahead

Atomic 212°, Bupa and Inclusively Made: How to flip the script on disability representation to create inclusive media for all Australians

Agencies, holdcos to become media owners, fin services with principal trading, retail media products; media owners merge and consolidate for cost-out, not transformation – Media ecologist Jack Myers calls the next three years

Dopamine hunters: Why 30 per cent of agency, media set are likely neurodivergent, how mobiles really hurt deep thinking and hot consumer segments overlooked

Nine’s MMM trial early results: MAFS boosts trust for Westpac, Love Island Australia smashes Cointreau consideration, Kia prepares to move money – but ROI dangers lurk

Seventh Wave Rising: AI to slash SaaS pricing, collapse tech stacks, kill search as we know it - and why marketers should wait before locking in

‘Growing out’ of YouTube: 120,000 long-form TV, movie titles send ad-funded Tubi’s biggest audience – Gen Z and millennials – down retro rabbit holes and ‘vertical fandoms’ - News Australia completes “All Screens” masterplan

YouTube steaming to ad revenues of $50bn, recasts TV to creator economy as UK broadcasters claim ‘reach fail’, top 200 channels dominated by kids - and Peppa Pig

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep8: Building brand for demand: Michael Hill, Reflections Holidays, Allianz CMOs on the business case and foundations for a brand-first marketing strategy

‘700% outperformance’: Employment Hero and Salesforce bring B2C playbook to B2B, watch lead costs tumble, growth power – but diverge on in-housing vs agencies amid AI shift

Top ten global martech analyst Scott Brinker says tech vendor consolidation has begun, agentic AI’s impact deep on marketers to master a complex, multi-agent future

‘People’s jobs will be changed’: Salesforce global CMO on how AI agents are the new digital labour force rapidly reshaping customer service, marketing and commerce; plus the ‘false precision’ of brand attribution

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep7: Winners and finalists part 2: Uber, Guzman y Gomez CMOs reveal what makes their distinct marketing approaches effective

Super Cannes 25: Suncorp’s Brand, CX boss Mim Haysom on influencers; Why EY Parthenon says risk and creative works for c-suite and Tassal’s Matt Vince is thinking global

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep6: Best Growth Initiative of the Year in focus: CMOs of Arnott’s Group, Flintfox share how they unlocked growth opportunities in the very different worlds of B2C and B2C

Blending Sharp and Ritson: Distinctive differentiation and custom media moves needle for CommBank, Subway, NRMA Insurance as News Australia shifts approach.

Omnichannel planning cuts ad fatigue, builds brand, speeds sales: New research shows how; Nunn Media cuts acquisition cost 24%

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep5: Winners and finalists part 1: Why sticking it out for the long term is so important to the marketing chiefs at Intrepid, Kennard’s Hire and Patties Foods

‘It’s all double duty’: A CMO, a CEO and an agency boss on brand v performance myths, the ‘mother metric’, and expensive mistakes to avoid

Kahneman subverted: Behavioural economics weaponised as dark patterns pump ecom, platform profits – prepare for legal change, warns Consumer Policy Research Centre

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep4: Earning the CEO and CFO’s respect: What former marketing chiefs from Jurlique, Aldi, Mercer plus Tourism Australia’s former CFO did to better narrate the commercial value of marketing

The CMO Awards podcast Ep3: Why we need ‘growth’ in job titles: Former and current marketing leaders from Lion, SiteMinder and McCain on how they’ve oriented teams and culture to drive new growth and brand ambitions

The CMO Awards podcast Ep2: Tourism Australia, Google and ABC marketing chiefs on how they have won friends and influenced people – from CEO and exec stakeholders to staff

Short-term ‘trap’: Oxford Uni professor warns on TV industry plan to build outcomes model – but still thinks they should build it; says agencies hold key to advertising beyond reach, and can lift his code

Suncorp, OMD and Foxtel talk TV, streaming and sport sponsorships and where media measurement, outcomes need to go next

Eyes on the pies: How Four'N Twenty and QMS struck new customer gold by mashing real-time Olympics content and dynamic ads – sales soar 30%

Bench strength: How Freedom Furniture, Wesfarmers Health, REA Group CMOs are keeping the crazy pace on team capability and next for the Australian Marketing Institute’s skills assessment and capability program

‘Time to harvest’: SCA chief John Kelly on LiSTNR’s rise to payback machine, ‘insatiable’ demand, and an opportunity that Meta and co. have missed

‘Clients in on it, boatloads of cash, complex, opaque corporate structures’: Principal media arbitrage trading spreads to TV, out of home, audio as holdco’s, retail media pile in; ex-IPG, GroupM, Omnicom execs on fixes

‘Size the opportunity, then seize it’: Flight Centre global CMO prepares for category expansion, revenue take-off via owned media-publisher pivot

‘Reach alone no longer works’: Why News Australia fired up engagement debate and how Tubi video streaming rights will shake-up BVOD with audience intent signals to sell more Subways

The CMO Awards Podcast Ep 1: Former CMOs of Westfield, Audi, Kimberly-Clark reveal relentless financial scrutiny, growth intent and risk factors driving exec and board expectations of marketing

‘The accountability for creativity stops with me’: Suncorp’s brand-CX chief Mim Haysom dukes it with Sir John Hegarty and Val Morgan Cinema’s Guy Burbidge on attention, entertainment, culture and marketing’s creative conundrum

Two second rule: System1 and JCDecaux effectiveness research shows 70% of Out-of-Home ads fail, the brands nailing it – and seven easy fixes

CDP Payoffs and Pitfalls: Australian brands are slashing customer acquisition costs, gaining behavioural insights, and getting ready for AI in their customer data tech but the devil hits in implementation

SCA backs hyper-local radio, earlier ad integration to beat rival’s $200m metro talent transplant, rides anti-global, anti-algo new wave

'Marketers are buying this’: Pitfalls and ‘lies’ to avoid on junk user data, clean room matching, MMM, incrementality tests - and B2B tech: Melbourne Business School Associate Professor Nico Neumann

Flywheels over funnels, intimacy, ‘low martech’ and influence over mass ‘shotgun’ reach: Four Pillars cofounder on repeating the trick globally under Kirin-owned Lion

The fractional CMO explosion: Why the emerging exec gig economy is giving experienced marketing leaders freedom to leverage their craft without political and organisational angst

Faster decisions that move profit needle, quantifying loyalty programs' dollar value: Where Optus and Michael Hill go next with MMM

Maurice Blackburn flags Australian publisher class action against Google for alleged bid rigging, Meta collusion; $8bn Canadian publisher lawsuit paves way

B2B’s hard new playbook: Don’t bet everything on chasing marketing qualified leads – most buyers call you and have already made their choice when they do

LiSTNR Adtech Hub pushes digital audio network to break even a year early as agencies, brands pile-in; new APIs, ANZ spend data, retargeting and Scope3 CO2 mapping next

Active attention for longer: Out of home study goes global as MRC moves on attention metrics, signalling programmatic surge, challenger brand boost

TikTok-Tracksuit data: 60% brand awareness triples conversion; 37% awareness is sweet spot for DTCs, start-ups

Writing for bots: Conversational commerce ‘explosion’ set to trigger up to $200bn in global brand content contracts – Deloitte Digital

‘Really mediocre outcomes’: Oxford Uni professor says Byron Sharp and Ehrenberg-Bass’ marketing science rules no longer hold – 1,000 campaigns, 1 million customer journeys as evidence

Enforcement mode: Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind takes aim at widespread pixel data spillage, loyalty, data enrichment, broking and geolocation targeting under existing laws

‘There’s a lot of junk’: Top VC firm Luma Partners’ Terry Kawaja says adtech ‘refuses to grow up’, did ‘a terrible job’ on privacy, backs ad activists to force a clean-up and says a Google ad break-up is ‘good for everyone’

Paramount global and local sales chiefs on converged trading, blended CPMs and why allowing streaming subscribers to opt into ad tiers is optimal

‘Don’t waste millions training LLMs for marketing and commerce, tap autonomous AI agents like Gucci, Saks, Wiley, Fisher & Paykel’ – Salesforce global CMO on AI’s ‘third wave’

Virgin Velocity measured incrementality across media channels, proved TV+BVOD+OOH deliver more uplift, launched first brand push, saw member growth trend soar 35%

Kincoppal girls’ only high school principal: ‘Social media the most damaging influence I’ve ever seen’, backs 16 age limit but ex-Facebook ANZ boss warns of fallout as brands stay silent

Streaming services have peaked as 2025 ad take set to surge to $200m; Amazon Prime, Kayo, Binge lead local market with ‘sophisticated’ human sales teams but too many streamers to support with ads - Omnicom, Telsyte

Peak ecom? Investment banker turned ecom entrepreneur says social, search ad rates, customer aqcuisition now unviable for ecom pureplay, DTC profits without retail media

Synthetic customers meet synthetic CMOs (and CFOs): Evidenza clones Sharp, Ritson, Binet & Field to build annual marketing plans in minutes; Mars, EY sign-up

MMM masterclass: Bupa’s open book on business data feeding Atomic 212° a benchmark for agency-client transparency and trust

Sir Martin Sorrell: UM’s ex-privacy boss Arielle Garcia ‘is right’ (partly) on $700bn online data ‘garbage'; Personalisation Netflix-style the future; AI, big tech will crunch intermediaries in three years and why regulators won’t tame them

Last click flaws ‘wasting 35 cents on marketing dollar’, search, display massively overvalued – while social and video an enormous opportunity: Analytic Partners and Meta on how to fix it.

Sir Martin Sorrell on the $9bn valuation wipeout of his new-world holdco S4Capital – and why Publicis, Omnicom, Havas are ‘premier league’ players; Dentsu, WPP, IPG in ‘second division’.

Market TV perceptions wayward: Ex-Seven CMO Mel Hopkins still backs TV, aligns with Nine CMO Liana Dubois warning marketers of 'dangerous swing' to platforms and dashboards over ROI

B2B marketing fundamentals challenged: Bain-B2B Institute study consigns traditional lead gen, KPIs, metrics to bin as ‘hidden buyers’ missed, trillions lost

From CMO to seven boards: Former Westfield, PepsiCo exec John Batistich's view on marketing from the top, why ageism hits marketers, not finance and talking customer over brand counters marketing’s cost centre perception

Mi3 launches FY2025 Marketing & Customer Benchmarks - 105 companies, $3bn in marketing spend: Three-speed marketing emerges; customer KPI’s surge, c-suite cred rises, what next for agencies and AI’s early use cases