Think pieces

Who is driving agency transformation - the agency or the client?

Cans in a factory
What the PepsiCo media move reveals about who's really driving agency transformation and the five questions every CMO should be asking.

Leading at the center

Sunlit Teamwork Around the Office Table
Why the today's most effective leaders aren't those who are out front, they are the ones leading from the middle. Andy Goldberg, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chair of The Marketing Society New York draws on his experience leading teams.

What Living and Working Across Cultures Taught Me About Marketing

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Lessons in the key to achieving great global marketing, wherever you go.

The Routine that Needs 25 Hours in a Day

Sunlit Healthy Lifestyle Morning
Real growth in wellness marketing (and life) comes from improving the routines we already have, not adding new ones.

Doing Good in the World of Marketing

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Why doing good in marketing isn't a statement of values, it's in the everyday choices about partners, content, people and trust by Rasha Hamzeh

Casting the Social Blockbuster: How to Scale Influencer Communities Around any Brand or Product

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Influencer marketing's old playbook is losing its grip on audiences. Fanbox’s Richard Summers reveals a framework to help brands build real community engagement through micro-creators.

Growth Rebels: Why Companies Need Rule-Breaking Marketers

Thoughtful Workspace Brainstorming
Rachel Letham reviews a recent LinkedIn Live event with Thomas Barta: The Marketing Leadership Masterclass. With corporate growth stagnating while real change is accelerating, we need more Growth Rebel - people who ignites ideas and makes them happen, as Thomas explains.

The courage to lead differently

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Inclusive leadership is an ambitious choice to challenge outdated workplace norms and build a culture where people feel trusted, supported and safe enough to thrive and do their best work.

Seeing Is Believing

Marketing leader developing ideas on a glass wall in a modern Dubai office, reflecting ambition, experimentation and visible impact.
What does it take to build a marketing and communications function from nothing, earn the trust of sceptical senior leaders and turn a regional idea into a global benchmark?

Leadership insights: Why purpose changes the way organisations lead

Collaborative Meeting Around a Paper-Covered Table
A recent CEO Conversation event held under the Chatham House rule revealed important leadership lessons which can be applied to any organisation in any sector. Integrated Media Lead, Procter and Gamble’s Billie Wilson shares her thoughts.

From AI Tools to Marketing Operating Systems

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Hadi Lotfi explores how AI is moving marketing beyond experimentation and individual tools toward connected workflows, stronger operating models and smarter decision-making that delivers real business impact.

Brand systems weren’t built for today’s business operating models

RPM Brand Work
Independent creative agency RPM and research specialist, Canvas 8, interviewed senior marketers from FMCG, hospitality, tech and entertainment sectors, to understand how effectively brand systems today are keeping pace with business operating models.

Global Market Sentiment Pulse: Contextual Brands in the Age of Instability

DEPT® Global Market Sentiment Report
DEPT®'s Global Market Sentiment Pulse, produced in partnership with The Marketing Society, draws on a survey of 3,000 consumers and the perspectives of senior marketing leaders from Barclays, British Airways, Diageo, Tesco and more to reveal what people actually want from brands in an age of instability.

Don't Be Dull, and other things Maz Farrelly said to a room of Marketers

Maz Farrelly in action in Sinagpore
This session explored what it takes to earn attention, build trust and leave a lasting impression. The strongest communicators know exactly what they want people to feel and do, then make every detail work towards that outcome. The message was clear: credibility must be earned, ideas must be interesting and being different matters more than simply being better. Because safe may be comfortable, but it is rarely memorable.

Marketing Is Driven by Physics

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Lex Bradshaw-Zanger on why the principles of physics offer a surprisingly useful framework for understanding how brands grow, customers choose and marketing works.

From CMO to CEO: How Mentoring Helped Me Reframe My Story

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The Marketing Society’s Global Leadership Mentoring Programme played a key role in helping Worldwide Cancer Research's Laura Brady achieve her goal of becoming a CEO.

The end of hype-driven shopping

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South Korean consumers, fed up of data breaches and fake reviews are demanding tangible "proof" before trusting hyped products, pushing brands to build verification and authenticity directly into the shopping experience.

Attention Wanted: Shit marketing only

Group pic from 'Beyond the Title' member experience
Drawing on decades in television, Maz Farrelly shared practical lessons on capturing attention, building memorable personal and brand identities, and embracing boldness over mediocrity. She encouraged marketers to use AI as a tool rather than a substitute for creativity, arguing that the brands and people who stand out are those willing to be genuinely different.

Gen Z Doesn't Want Your Brand Story. They Want the Truth.

Speaker Megan Ho addressing the members at the Coffee & Conversation: Understanding and Reaching Gen Z intimate session
Marketers from luxury, FMCG, finance, B2B and agencies gathered for an open discussion on what it takes to engage Gen Z in today's fragmented media landscape. The conversation highlighted the growing importance of authenticity, niche communities and regional cultural influence, alongside practical lessons from brands successfully building trust with younger audiences.

When Maz speaks you listen. When Maz gives instructions you act

Maz Farrelly holding a mic in her session
Maz Farrelly challenged marketers to think like television producers by making every pitch, profile and interaction clear, distinctive and impossible to ignore. The session showed that standing out requires more than polished messaging or AI-generated content: it means knowing what you want, communicating a memorable point of difference and deliberately giving people a reason to keep listening.

A Practical Guide to Speaking the Language of the CFO

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Ammunition's Renaye Edwards says the friction between marketers and CFOs stems from mismatched language and suggests seven ways to overcome this to think like a growth operator who partners with, rather than fights finance.