How to balance short-term impact with long-term results
Digital media and financial pressures on CEOs are forcing marketers to focus increasingly on short-term metrics at the expense of creativity and brand building.
Digital media and financial pressures on CEOs are forcing marketers to focus increasingly on short-term metrics at the expense of creativity and brand building.
Marketers are increasingly using short-term metrics to measure marketing success but is it simply because it’s easier to do so or are they under pressure from senior leaders to deliver immediate results?
Shrinking marketing budgets and the use of short-term metrics to measure success have resulted in a sharp drop in creativity, according to the latest IPA report ‘Selling Creativity Short: Creativity and effectiveness under threat’.
The rise of short-termism, as outlined by a recent IPA report, is not only having an impact on creativity and long-term brand building, it could also be affecting the length of time a marketer stays in any given role.
From the persistent data skills gap to rampant restructuring, the Marketing Week Career & Salary Survey reveals how teams are evolving in 2024.
Marketers continue to jump between jobs, with more than two-thirds in their current role for less than three years.
Implementing AI in the recruitment process can help brands shake off bias and hire for skills over experience, headhunters suggest.
At the end of every week, we look at the key stories, offering our view on what they mean for you and the industry. From Oatly’s decision to “kill the marketing department” to how McDonald’s used humour to build trust, it’s been a busy week. Here is my take.