Values-Driven Marketing enables brands to define target audiences more tightly, identify each segment’s underlying motivations, then leverage the resulting insights across every media and messaging ...

Marketers appear to be misdiagnosing their challenge by optimising for efficiency rather than for profitability, according to a new research collaboration by Les Binet and Will Davis, chief data ...

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The percentage of strategists feeling they gained influence with clients dropped from 59% in 2022 to 41% in 2025, signaling a core product-market fit problem. This vulnerability is exacerbated by the ...

WARC’s GEISTE framework examines global trends via six key lenses, identifying the major macro-level shifts that will shape the world in 2026.

eBay inserted itself into cultural conversation and increased sales by rewarding sneakerheads for wearing their shoes rather than preserving them. As the largest marketplace for new and second-hand ...

This report highlights key findings from WARC’s annual survey of global strategists. Most strategists say strategy is at a crossroads and 62% say it’s treated as expendable, often baked in as “gift ...

Our latest advertising spend forecast – published today – expects the global ad market to grow by 7.4% to a total of $1.17trn this year, an uptick of 1.2 percentage points (pp) since our last ...

Sometimes new ideas take extra proof to convince people they will work. We’ve been hearing that it’s hard to break up with legacy metrics like viewability and dwell time, even though these metrics ...

Employee engagement, motivation and productivity can be indicators of whether a brand is growing or can continue to grow. Training employees on the brand’s assets, mission and values should be an ...

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