Think pieces

Agility in Uncertainty: Strategic responses to the evolving trade landscape

Connections & Conversations From Macro to Market - Asia’s Economic Trends
Ines Lam from HSBC explains how global trade uncertainty from US tariffs is forcing businesses to reshape supply chains through reshoring and nearshoring strategies while prioritizing expense control.

How Living Brands are Winning in Today’s Attention Economy

The Rise of Living Brands
In their latest piece of thought leadership, All About Brands explores the idea that the brands succeeding today are not static constructs or surface-level identities, but living, breathing beings – emotionally resonant, culturally attuned, and deeply human.

B2B Buying Behaviour is Changing: How to Engage Your Defensive Buying Groups

Boat on water with blue colour wash on it
B2B buying behaviour is changing, and fast. Today’s buying groups are more cautious, independent, and risk-averse than ever before, making the traditional, bottom-of-funnel marketing tactics less effective. A new article from INFUSE offers practical guidance to help marketers adapt to these shifts.

Navigating the Short Attention Economy: A Marketer’s Guide

Lex Bradshaw-Zanger
In today’s digital era, attention has become the rarest and most valuable commodity. We asked our Members what keeps them up at night and 69% of people in our first pulse survey with Play Verto said “winning attention”. So we asked Lex Bradshaw-Zanger to share his insight into navigating the short attention economy.

How Music Can Make a Brand More Luxurious

Mixing board two woman using it
Sonic branding helps a brand stand out – and nobody stands out like fashion brands! How do they deploy music and what can other luxury brands learn from them? Colleen Fahey of Sixième Son breaks it down

Why Marketing Matters with Accenture Song

Credit: Baz London
To mark 40 years of The Marketing Society Global Awards, Accenture Song captured insights from industry leaders in a powerful four-part video series exploring why marketing matters in today’s disruptive world.

Sky CEO Conversation: A Fireside Chat at Cannes

Dana Strong of Sky and Sophie Devonshire of The Marketing Society
Our CEO Conversations event at Cannes 2025 featured Dana Strong CEO Sky. This piece brings you the key highlights of the event from Dana's fascinating leadership journey to her sage advice for aspiring leaders.

THINK EQUAL: Powering Progress, Not Just Conversations

Think Equal event in UAE with The Marketing Society
In the Middle East only a third of organisations have women in senior positions, THINK EQUAL was created to address this gender gap and drive meaningful change. The initiative runs workshops, events and leadership programmes all designed to encourage and support women in business and help them make it to top leadership roles.

The Fellows Fundamentals: Assessing Brand Performance

The Fellows Fundamentals: Tim Ambler
As part of The Fellows Fundamentals series the late Tim Ambler discusses the importance of measuring brand performance through non-financial metrics (brand equity) and not simply relying on financial measures like ROI. 

The Fellows Fundamentals: Optimising a Brand Portfolio

The Fellows Fundamentals: Optimising a Brand Portfolio
As part of The Fellows Fundamentals series Ruth Saunders takes us through the steps of optimising a brand portfolio.

The Fellows Fundamentals: Positioning - strategy not poetry

The Fellows Fundamentals Daryl Fielding
As part of the The Fellows Fundamentals series, Daryl Feilding takes us through the steps to write a positioning for your brand with real life examples

Introducing: The Fellows Fundamentals

Chris Macleod introduces The Fellows Fundamentals series
Chair of Fellows England and International, Chris Macleod introduces The Fellows Fundamentals series; what it's all about and how it can help marketers of all levels.

A career MOT by four of the best mechanics in the business

Car showing career MOT and four mechanics
Oliver Lester talks of the golden opportunity, The Global Leadership Mentoring Programme was for him

Setting the pace and mental wellness

Woman in workplace practising mindfulness
Our industry, our lives and the world today are fast. Sped up by technology, a never-reached goal of efficiency and on-demand culture seeping into every expectation we have.

Smarter Marketing: How AI Powers Hyper-Personalisation at Scale

bottle with secret sauce written on it
Accenture Song’s trend research consistently shows that today’s consumers expect every brand interaction to feel uniquely relevant. Brands that do this right don’t just build better experiences, they see measurable gains in customer loyalty, engagement and conversion.

Cannes Lions 2025: Key Insights from The Marketing Society Correspondents

Cannes Lions 2025
The Marketing Society's correspondents at Cannes Lions 2025 returned with a unified message: marketing has found its confidence again.

40 Years of Big Ideas, Bold Brands and Brilliant Behaviour

 MLP Retro Arcade
MLP are proud to be part of this year’s 40th anniversary The Marketing Society Awards – four decades of recognising the boldest and brightest ideas in UK marketing.

Cannes Lions 2025: How Do We Move Fast and Build Brands?

Rotonde Stage session at Cannes Lions 2025
The pace of marketing has never been faster, but does speed mean sacrificing long-term brand building? At the Creative Impact Unpacked session Cannes Lions, industry leaders from across Asia, including Andreas Krasser, The Marketing Society Board Member came together to tackle one of marketing's most pressing questions: how do we move fast and build brands simultaneously?

Cannes 2025: Community, Culture and the Comeback of Commercial Creativity

Vaseline Verified Winning at Cannes Lions 2025
At Cannes Lions this year, Neil Barrie from TwentyFirstCenturyBrands was heartened to see that the Grand Prix juries looked beyond the buzz and didn’t reward the loudest, shiniest work.

Cannes Conversations 2025: ‘The Next Billion’ Leadership Brunch

UK Advertising Round Table guests in Cannes 2025
Details of the honest chat about something that doesn’t get talked about enough: how brands can really understand and connect with the next billion consumers in emerging markets. These consumers—mainly in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America—are coming online fast.

Cannes Lions 2025: A brave new world?

The Indie Forum at Cannes Lions 2025
Most advertising and marketing communication is now driven by social media. Not so much social first, as social first, second, third and fourth but a quiet revolution is emerging. The annual Cannes (p)review from Julian Boulding