Blogs and think pieces

Ambition: What Are You Really Reaching For?

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What does ambition really mean to you? Explore how understanding your strengths, values and purpose can help you look beyond traditional measures of success and pursue what truly matters.

We launched a satellite and then built its market

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How AI is helping smaller businesses challenge industry giants, proving that ambition, expertise and smart content strategy can outweigh even the biggest marketing budgets.

Ambition in Action: When Playing It Safe Becomes the Bigger Risk

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Exploring why ambitious marketing requires challenging established thinking, embracing calculated risks and creating space for experimentation, even when success isn't guaranteed.

Culture as the Starting Point: What It Takes to Win in Asia

A keynote presentation at The Marketing Society's Localised Rebellion member experience
Winning in Asia starts with understanding local cultures and letting them shape brand ideas, products and innovation. In this article, Elodie Guigues explores how brands can balance global consistency with local relevance, respond faster to cultural shifts and give local teams the freedom to act. She also highlights the importance of sharing learning between local and global teams, with practical steps to review brand guidelines and ensure market insights influence wider business decisions.

Stop localising at the end: what Asia can teach us about building global brands

A slide from The Marketing Society's Localised Rebellion Member Experience
What changes when local teams help shape a campaign from the start? Drawing on our Localised Rebellion experience, Jolene Cornford explores how brands can use insights from across Asia to build stronger global strategies. She shares practical ways to balance brand consistency with local freedom and ensure knowledge from the ground reaches the people making decisions.

What does cultural readiness look like?

'What does cultural readiness look like?' Panel in action
Why do so many brands want cultural relevance but struggle to act on it? Drawing on our breakfast with Culture Group, Krishnan Menon explores how brands can build cultural readiness by understanding fan communities, earning credibility and contributing something meaningful. He shares five practical principles, a way to assess organisational readiness and two actions to help teams prepare before the next cultural opportunity arrives.

Case studies

The Marketing Society GCC Awards 2026: Sustainability

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On 17 September 2026, in Dubai, we celebrated The Marketing Society's 4th GCC Awards. Sustainability winner Sustainable Digital Marketing by AMAALA – Red Sea Global & Starcom KSA – Publicis.

The Marketing Society GCC Awards 2026: Marketing Innovation and Technology

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On 17 September 2026, in Dubai, we celebrated The Marketing Society's 4th GCC Awards. Marketing Innovation & Technology winner WHX Lead Scoring Automation: Accelerating Commercial Momentum by World Health Expo (WHX).

The Marketing Society GCC Awards 2026: Successful and Effective Partnerships

The Art of Connection by HSBC Banking Middle East & The Edge
On 17 September 2026, in Dubai, we celebrated The Marketing Society's 4th GCC Awards. Customer Experience winner Mercedes-AMG – Can't Explain It. Only Feel It. by Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, Team X Omnicom & RAPP MENA.

The Marketing Society GCC Awards 2026: Customer Experience

Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East & Team X Omnicom & RAPP MENA | Mercedes-AMG - Can’t Explain It. Only Feel It.
On 17 September 2026, in Dubai, we celebrated The Marketing Society's 4th GCC Awards. Customer Experience winner Mercedes-AMG – Can't Explain It. Only Feel It. by Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, Team X Omnicom & RAPP MENA.

Empower

Can subtlety save us from cynicism?

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'Over the last 18 months it's safe to say we're fed up', writes Havas Hong Kong's Head of Strategy, Duncan Bell. 'And brands haven't escaped this malaise.'

Storytelling - Oh no, do we have to?

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Author and global speaker on communication, creativity and collaboration, Neil Mullarkey, says the good news is, everyone can tell a story: colleagues, clients, customers... you just have to seek them out.

Why stories are important for Squiggly Careers

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Helen Tupper, Co-Founder of award-winning career development company Amazing If, on what makes a good squiggly career story and when you should tell yours.

The stories we tell...

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Author, speaker and founder of Upping Your Elvis, Chris Barez-Brown, says that the stories we tell ourselves shape our very being, and in just ten minutes a day we can be happier and more optimistic.

Interviews

Member Interview with James Smyllie

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Member interview with James Smyllie, Founder of Taman Warna Pte Ltd.

Member Interview with Frank Morris

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Member interview with Frank Morris, Marketing and New Business Director at Mishcon de Reya

Member Interview with Charli Wright

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Member interview with Charli Wright, Chief Executive Officer, JWI