Many variables affect sales, which don’t always correlate to how good your ads are. The only way to measure campaigns effectively is against the metrics you want to change and the time you need to do it in.
By Mark Ritson
Gillette’s purpose-driven attempt to revitalise its slogan, ‘The best a man can get’, isn’t just a waste of ad budget but an expensive exercise in destroying its dominant market share.
There may not be immutable laws governing how marketing and advertising work, but that’s no excuse for failing to take a scientific approach to progressing our knowledge of them.
Marketers must embrace technology colleagues’ expertise so both work together for the customer rather than independently for themselves, according to senior executives at Marketing Week’s roundtable event.
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 experiential and events being named B2B marketers’ main priority for brand investment to the inside story from Hovis’s first CMO, it’s been a busy week. Here is my take.
Brands may have to become more creative in how they advertise or look to innovate to avoid being impacted by the ban on pre-watershed TV and paid-for online ads.
More than 30,000 people have taken part in Marketing Week’s Mini MBA series since launch, with the feedback overwhelmingly positive.
Hovis, which was founded in 1886, is a brand blessed with a “treasure chest” of distinctive assets, says new CMO Mark Brown. His job is to deploy these in relevant way to drive demand for the brand.