Day 4 in the Vertical Series closes out the Week with a look under the hood of the auto sector.
3:15 - THE ART & SCIENCE OF DATA STORYTELLING: HOW AUDI DELIVERS ‘BEAUTIFUL CARS WITH AMAZING BRAINS’
Join Neustar’s VP Marketing Julie Fleischer as she sits down with Benjamin Braun, Audi UK CMO for a fireside chat to learn how this premium auto brand creates and executes beautiful stories with the right data driven tools and insights. Using marketing analytics to quantify the value generated by their distinctive communication and campaigns, Audi is able to know exactly where to spend the next pound on marketing.
In this session you will learn:
1. Differentiation requires being different. Pay attention to category conventions so that you can break them
2. Human beings are driven by emotion and storytelling. Functional, rational benefits may play to the head, but people act on the heart
3. Emotional campaigns are more effective on almost all business metrics, particularly long term brand health and profitability
4. If you want to break category conventions, you’ll need to make a strong business case. You need a strong measurement plan to support data-driven storytelling, drive change and prove results
5. Accurate actionable campaign measurement must be holistic and future-forward
Benjamin Braun
Marketing Director, Audi
Julie Fleischer
VP Product Marketing - Marketing Solutions, Neustar
BEING BRAVE: HOW MCLAREN HAS DRIVEN FAN ENGAGEMENT BEYOND THE TRACK
Social and digital has redefined the relationship between McLaren and its fans. F1 teams and drivers have become content publishers, extending the story beyond the track to an always-on narrative – in turn, driving fan avidity and partner value. In this session, Rob will describe McLaren’s journey to its award-winning status in digital sports marketing.
In this session you will learn:
1. Social and digital is the engine room of sports fan engagement
2. Always-on content and hero campaigns help build a team’s personality and drive fan avidity
3. Social and digital has emerged as a key pillar of sponsor partner activation
4. Engaging a Millennial / Gen Z audience requires a visual approach, but there’s still room for the written word
5. A high performance social and digital strategy is a blend of big and small data insights – understanding the trends and listening to your fans
Rob Bloom
Group Digital Director, McLaren
