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Cannes 2025 Spotlight

Join us for an unforgettable week of networking, insights, and inspiration in Cannes. Find out what we've got lined up!
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Cannes 2024 Spotlight

Join us for an unforgettable week of networking, insights, and inspiration in Cannes.
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The power of reinvention

In 1981, Nintendo launched a new video game featuring a giant barrel throwing ape named Donkey Kong, holding a woman named Pauline, hostage.
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New demands of CX: Leading with thoughtfulness

For many brands, personalisation of their customer interactions is now a big focus and adapting this to customer experience (CX) has become crucial for their success.
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17 Lessons from Asian Business

China is the world’s second largest economy, a huge new and growing consumer market, and home to many of the world’s fastest growing companies.
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Culture is no longer a marketing input. It is the Operating System for Growth

With attention fragmented and trust in an increasingly fragile state, growth is harder to manufacture than ever. The brands pulling ahead are not spending more - they are embedded in culture. Attention no longer lives in ad breaks. It lives in fandom, memes, WhatsApp groups, music drops, social and feeds and communities where meaning is created and shaped in real time. Nicola Graham explores this topic.
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If AI’s the baseline, what's your differentiator?

Most marketing agencies have AI now, as well as every freelancer and every graduate. And that means AI capability is no longer impressive: it’s the bare minimum.
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Learn Like a Lobster with The Marketing Society

The Marketing Society Fellow Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis hosted an evening with The Marketing Society in New York, to celebrate the launch of their new book Learn Like a Lobster.
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The brand-performance divide is a leadership problem, here’s how to fix it

In this piece, Alicia Coghlan argues that brand and performance marketing are complementary, not competing forces.
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China Brand (R)Evolution: Why Global Success Now Requires a Local Soul

The "China Brand (R)Evolution" session at TikTok Singapore highlighted a seismic shift from low-cost manufacturing to purpose-led global expansion. By analysing the "Chu Hai" (going global) phenomenon and the collapse of the traditional marketing funnel, this article explores how brands must find their "cultural code" and empower local teams to survive a market defined by paradoxes and lightning-fast innovation.
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