CMO risk-taking, digital marketing jobs, budgets: 5 interesting stats to start your week
Marketing Week ReportersWe arm you with all the stats you need to prepare for the coming week and help you understand the big industry trends.
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Bringing digital under marketing’s remit and mentoring Gen Z: Your Marketing Week
Russell ParsonsAt the end of every week, I look at the key stories, offering my view on what they mean for you and the industry. From the marketing community rallying to support those who have lost their jobs to Domino’s bringing digital under marketing’s remit, it’s been a busy week. Here is my take.
How Refinitiv smashed its SEO target during domain migration
Matthew ValentineChanging its name and launching a new website presented Refinitiv with a tough SEO challenge, but after generating 20 million links in one year, it was a challenge the brand met head on.
Boohoo, Debenhams, Asos: Everything that matters this morning
Marketing Week ReportersGood morning and welcome to Marketing Week’s round-up of the news that matters in the marketing world today.
Why Oatly ensures its marketing strategy is ‘consistently inconsistent’
Charlotte RogersWilling to take risks to grow the brand and push a sustainable agenda, Oatly is looking to spark friction with its “provocative” and unpredictable marketing strategy.
Confidence in marketing jobs edges up
Matthew ValentineAlthough still negative overall, expectations around marketing jobs has improved thanks in part to the government’s extension of the furlough scheme.
‘You’ll be out of business in six months’: How EasyJet proved the doubters wrong
Molly FlemingTwenty-five years on, EasyJet’s third employee looks back at how a mixture of bombastic ads and guerilla marketing helped the airline overcome its ‘David versus Goliath’ struggle.
Consumer confidence drops again as ‘world turned upside down’
Matt BarkerDespite a slight upturn in confidence last month, the latest lockdown and increased restrictions have put a serious dent in any hopes for a more optimistic outlook going into 2021.
Marketers on furlough offered ‘golden ticket’ to learning hub
Lucy TesserasThe Marketing Academy has created an online learning platform, which is available to its global community and sponsors, as well we 1,000 marketers who have been made redundant or are on furlough.
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Three axioms and three questions that summarise all of brand strategy
Mark RitsonBrand strategy is not complicated, it’s just the systematic application of the basics all marketers are taught. Here’s a simple way to be sure you’re taking the right steps – in the right order.
How Tesco’s customer focus enabled it to be ‘faster, quicker and sharper’
Marketing Week ReportersThe supermarket’s UK CEO and chief customer officer share how putting consumers at the heart of what it does enabled Tesco to adapt at speed during the pandemic.
Marketers search for ‘green shoots of recovery’ as budget cuts continue
Matthew ValentineThe latest IPA Bellwether data finds the worsening pandemic and Brexit reality took a toll on marketing budgets during the fourth quarter, but optimism is growing that the sector will bounce back.
Futurist Tracey Follows on the tech that will impact marketing in the ‘postnormal’ era
Marketing Week ReportersFrom the digital after-life to the growth of synthetic media, futurist Tracey Follows sets out the key trends that will shape the marketing industry over the next five years.
Brands rally behind mentoring initiative to serve marketing’s ‘lost generation’
Charlotte RogersThe School of Marketing is launching Mentoring Gen Z, which aims to connect young people with marketing leaders from brands including Boots and Direct Line in a bid to avert the “ticking timebomb” of youth unemployment.
Marketoonist on the culture of new ideas
Tom FishburneTom Fishburne is founder of Marketoon Studios. Follow his work at marketoonist.com or on Twitter @tomfishburne See more of the Marketoonist here