Marketing Effectiveness Unplugged, hosted by award-winning practitioner Dom Boyd, unmasks the secrets to the world’s most effective marketing.
There’s no filler or empty hype, just pure marketing effectiveness gold.
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Cadbury: A Glass and a Half of Effectiveness with David Clement (Cadburys) and Geth James (VCCP)
In this episode, Dom uncovers the ingredients that go into making Cadburys marketing some of most effective on planet earth, with Cadburys VP Marketing GB David Clement, and VCCP Group Director of Planning Geth James.
In this episode discover:
· Why Cadburys pivoted from the famous ‘Gorilla’ – to even bigger success
· How a single qualitative insight can deliver hundreds of millions of extra revenue
· A top example of how to brief a creative agency
· How to know great work when it’s presented
· Why it’s better to focus on collaboration than creativity
· Why the UK’s No1 Xmas campaign‘ Secret Santa’ works because it does everything wrong
· What marketers can learn from Jimi Hendrix and trance music
·The effectiveness elements that create an IPA Effectiveness Grand Prix and Silver winner
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3 Apr 2025
The Effectiveness Elite: Secrets from Serial IPA Winners
In this episode, Dom welcomes Jo Arden, CSO and IPA Effectiveness Awards Convener of Judges and leader of the IPA effectiveness Group. Together, they delve into the world of marketing effectiveness, focusing on the prestigious Broadbent Award.
This award is given to brands and agencies that demonstrate the strongest dedication to marketing effectiveness rigour, akin to winning the Champions League for brands.
Jo shares insights into the rigorous judging process of the IPA Effectiveness Awards, highlighting the importance of an unbroken chain between marketing actions and their outcomes
The episode features discussions on notable award-winning campaigns from brands like McDonald's, Cadbury's, and Diageo, showcasing their commitment to long-term brand building and strategic marketing.
Whether you're a marketing professional or simply interested in the world of advertising, this episode offers a deep dive into the principles and practices that drive marketing excellence.
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12 Feb 2025
‘How not to mess up your brand’, with Mark Ritson
As Marketing Professor, and business Columnist of the year and successful entrepreneur founding the Mini MBA programme, Mark Ritson has spent his whole career on the marketing effectiveness frontline.
In this candid episode we hear:
What real marketing strategy looks like in 3 words
Why simplicity is everything
Why most brands get positioning wrong
How advertising is overrated
How brand mangers become blind to their brands
The key to building price power, and why its more important than sales
The limitations to Ehrenberg Bass and why he rates Kantar BrandZ’s model
Why he writes his Marketing Week columns in an hour – and why he can’t stop
The one thing marketers should focus on to increase impact
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16 Jan 2025
‘Full funnel ideas: lessons from the GenAI frontline’ with Reckitt’s Becky Verano
Becky Verano, Reckitt's Global VP of Marketing & Capability, shares actionable insights on leveraging GenAI to drive transformative marketing effectiveness and unlock full-funnel success.
20 Dec 2024
‘This isn’t just a turnaround, it’s an M&S turnaround’, with M&S’ Sharry Cramond
M&S is one of the UK’s most iconic retail brands, but one that had lost its way over the past decade. Hot on the heels of its 2024 Kantar BrandZ Brand of the Year win, +1 million new customers, profits +17.2%, food sales +8.1% and share price +45%, this is the story of its marketing-inspired turnaround from one of its key architects, Marketing Director Sharry Cramond
Hear:
What she did on the first day in the job
How one sentence can change everything: ‘Only M&S…’
The 3 keys to modernising M&S
How consistency is a creative superpower
Why ‘product, product, product’ stories are the secret sauce to building differentiation
How they use Tik Tok differently to create competitive advantage
Why positive attitude trumps talent
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20 Dec 2024
‘What it takes to be the best’, with British Army CMO Naomi Walter & Accenture Song’s Amy Gilmore
The British Army’s ‘Be the Best’ recruitment campaign is a lightning rod for cultural commentary and one of the longest-running and & most effective around, increasing registration +57% and growing applications by +120%. Winner IPA Effectiveness, APG Gold and UK Effie 2024.
In this episode CMO Naomi Walter and Accenture Song’s Head of Strategy Amy Gilmore lift the lid on what it takes to consistently raise the bar and evolve, including:
The ‘reset’ moment that shock the foundations of the agency
Why there’s nothing more powerful than a clear brief
Get your intel: using deep ethnographic and qualitative research
Spotting ‘aha’ strategic and creative breakthrough moments
What a full-funnel idea looks like in practice
Doing your reconnaissance: making senior stakeholders participants in the process
How to balance the long and short every single day
Why partnership is a team’s superpower
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