ANA Masters of Marketing

ORLANDO – To show the customer how Chipotle differed from other restaurant chains, the company hired an award-winning documentarian, Errol Morris, to take a camera into its kitchens and film the food prep process. As part of the brand campaign, two different pieces of content focused on Chipotle’s guacamole exemplified the range of platforms that […]

ORLANDO – Storytelling is what connects customers to brands and helps them understand why and what to buy. Stacey Grier, CMO of The Clorox Company, wants to figure out how to use new media to tell stories in new and different ways that help the company and its brands breakthrough to a bigger audience. Grier, […]

ORLANDO – Georgia-Pacific has changed its outlook on how to grow and leverage people in their roles within the company. In an interview with Beet.TV at the CMO Growth Council, Douwe Bergsma, CMO at Georgia-Pacific, explains the approach to keeping people happy, engaged and challenged within the company, particularly as employee expectations change, by not […]

When you think of a giant business operations software supplier, words like “fun”, “playful” and “mass-market” don’t necessarily come to mind. But that’s what SAP, as it branches out of the usual B2B sales tactics, using TV to find companies amongst consumers. The idea that marketing for B2B no longer needs to be restricted to […]

ORLANDO – MillerCoors knows you tune out, and likely check your phone, during commercial breaks. As a company that relies on linear TV, and particularly live events like sports, in its advertising strategy, it’s looking to figure out how to still get in front of customers who aren’t paying attention to TV ad spots. Brad […]

ORLANDO – Think of the last best experience you’ve had. According to Babs Rangaiah, executive partner of marketing solutions for the Interactive Experiences unit of IBM, this last-best becomes the minimum expectation for future experiences of a similar kind. Rangaiah uses E-ZPass as an example of how quickly customers’ expectations can change. “Once E-ZPass was […]

ORLANDO – The recruiting and training process on IBM’s marketing team doesn’t necessarily target those with a traditional marketing background, according to chief content officer George Hammer. In an interview with Beet.TV, Hammer explained how hiring creatives of all backgrounds can yield more meaningful results. Hammer describes how the evolving roles of a marketer are […]

ORLANDO – Anheuser-Busch is investing in innovation by way of an internal team dubbed Apollo 11. The team, which operates separately from the company’s main operations, is dedicated to developing new, innovative products that resonate with customers’ evolving tastes. Ten to 20 innovations come out of the Apollo 11 team per year, one of which […]

ORLANDO – How do you extend your message to as many different populations as possible all while remaining authentic to both your mission and to the cultures you are aiming to reach? According to Aetna CMO David Edelman, the first step is to hold up the mirror to your own company. “We’ve launched a pretty […]

ORLANDO – Getting a better understanding of privacy and data will help protect agencies. In an interview with Beet.TV at the ANA Masters of Marketing Conference, Marla Kaplowitz, president and CEO of the 4A’s, says it will also help agencies connect with consumers. “It’s not just data for data’s sake,” says Kaplowitz. “It’s about understanding […]

ORLANDO – If you are going to try to force the world’s biggest technology giants to change their ways, it may pay to have safety in numbers. That is why one of the largest, broadest bodies representing advertisers is optimistic it can win out in the end. Back in June, the World Federation of Advertisers  […]

ORLANDO — As the finger was pointed at the ad agencies for inefficiency and obfuscation, the big business consulting groups smelled an opportunity. Now Accenture, PwC, EY and Deloitte has made significant efforts at taking brands’ marketing services contracts. But what does that look like? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Nikki Mendonça, president of […]

Twitter’s US advertising revenue grew 29% in the second quarter of the year versus the prior year, driven partly by video growth. But what does a brand’s Twitter engagement look like these days? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Twitter’s VP of Americas, JP Maheu, explains the offering. “Fundamentally, Twitter has become the news app […]

ORLANDO – To Tony Weisman, the CMO of Dunkin’, paranoia is necessary for brands’ survival. “If we keep serving the same product to the same consumers in the same way, over time, we’re going to go the way of a lot of other retail brands in recent years,” Weisman told Beet.TV in an interview at […]

ORLANDO – Triad plans to launch a new solution designed to help brands navigate the complex commerce environment, according to David Haase, the company’s global chief development officer. Under the umbrella name The Market are tools to help brands create marketing strategies and execution strategies across shopper marketing, national media and e-commerce sites. “All to […]

ORLANDO – SAP global CMO Alicia Tillman believes siloed data is holding the industry back. She’s working to solve it. A year ago, SAP joined forces with Microsoft and Adobe to launch the Open Data Initiative, a strategy that unites the data systems across the three companies to improve customer experiences for companies that operate […]

ORLANDO — Over the last 10 years, the advertising industry has obsessed over new toolsets that allow it to precision-target audiences, automatically buy the right ads and finely measure the results all the way through to sales. But is this now an industry that is led too much by the numbers? Or, put another way, […]

ORLANDO — Although the recent boom in subscription video-on-demand may suggest a customer base that is rapidly opting out of ad-supported media, consumers actually enjoy ads – but they don’t want to see them too often. Those are findings from a new report commissioned by AT&T’s ad-tech unit Xandr. Kantar surveyed 2,004 consumers from the […]

ORLANDO – When recruiting new hires, Katie Williams, vp of marketing at Mondelez, likes to share the company’s values: loving Mondelez consumers and brands, growing every day and doing what’s right. The goal is to underscore that employees will work on the iconic brands owned by Mondelez, including Oreo, Sour Patch Kids and Chips Ahoy […]

ORLANDO – For Pearle Vision vp and CMO Doug Zarkin, a successful marketing strategy has to involve sacrifice. “Marketing can’t be everything to everybody,” Zarkin told Beet.TV in an interview at the CMO Growth Council. “It forces brands to be rigorous and disciplined in terms of what we stand for. We could talk about a […]