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This session presents the latest thinking on high-impact advertising, at a time when budgets are under considerable pressure. It is based on data from a first-of-its-kind coalition of effectiveness experts, and will provide some initial findings from a full study to be published in early 2025.

Our recommendations will include the need to reinstate brand-led thinking into advertising and to recognize that brand and performance advertising work much harder when they are truly integrated than they do as siloed activities.

Brand and performance have become the two main ways to think about advertising. There is logic behind this approach, but the division of these responsibilities into separate functions and workstreams has led to suboptimal results for advertisers. That, in no small part, is because investment has become skewed towards performance advertising.

The best returns - in terms of building equity for tomorrow and driving sales today - are delivered when brand and performance advertising are rigorously interconnected. Within that, brand advertising should take the role of the dominant partner in this relationship.

One implication of this insight is that organizations which see brand building and performance advertising as independent pursuits risk missing out on the power of using them in combination. The key driver of success here is not finding the right “balance” of spend between brand and performance. Instead, it rests on the degree of integration between these activities. View Less

What You'll Learn from This Session...

  1. Marketers need to stop treating brand and performance advertising as independent activities.
  2. Brand advertising and performance advertising work much better together than they do as separate tasks.
  3. The results of these activities are intrinsically linked, and marketers need to plan their strategies and measure results in line with that fact.

Presented with


Speakers

Ann Marie Kerwin Americas Editor WARC
Alex Banks Senior Vice President, Business Development System1
Kate Price Partner Prophet
Ken Favaro Chief Strategy Officer BERA.ai
Mike Menkes Senior Vice President Analytic Partners

Event Details

Event Type Session

Track  Brands & Marketers