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16 May 2023

B2B: invest in experience to deliver on inspiration

B2B: invest in experience to deliver on inspiration

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11 May 2023

UK shoppers love promotions

Customers are becoming more and more savvy about marketing tactics and techniques. These are the findings of the second in the series of ‘What the Brits want from promotions’ from WPP’s Mando

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10 May 2023

Gen Z: a lesson for sports brands

The growth in sports brands has been unrelenting: more participants, more viewers, more followers. But, for the first time, this growth is being challenged – by the difficulty in attracting Gen Z audiences

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04 May 2023

The B2B boom: don’t let these myths bust your momentum

Despite the surge in B2B marketing, most marketers aren’t tailoring their storytelling to reach their target audiences. Selena Cameron of WPP’s content marketing agency SJR debunks some common B2B myths

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14 Apr 2023

RGBlack: AI causes history to repeat itself

WPP’s Racial Equity Programme has supported AKQA’s RGBlack initiative in a new phase of development. Tim Devine, of WPP’s AKQA, explains

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07 Mar 2023

The revolution starts now

Over 200 WPP clients, partners and agency team-members met to learn, share and be inspired by the very latest in commerce. The theme – ‘Commerce Revolution’

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06 Mar 2023

Generative AI: a new phase of innovation

‘Transformational’, ‘augmenting’, ‘magical’ – these are the words that were peppered throughout WPP’s roundtable on generative AI (a forum of experts from across WPP, partners and clients). We asked what this technology means for the creative industries

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28 Feb 2023

On our minds – and on your radar

What should companies watch out for as this year unfurls? Marie Stafford at WPP’s Wunderman Thompson Intelligence bundles up dozens of trends into five key ‘watch outs’ for 2023

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20 Feb 2023

It’s all about how to grow and resilience

‘The 2030 Forecast’ from Ogilvy Consulting sets out the 10 challenges facing humanity – largely resulting from its own hand. Carla Hendra says companies must meet these challenges head on if they are to grow

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23 Jan 2023

2023 in sport: a year full of potential

Six trends that will shape the year for brands and rights-holders

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14 Dec 2022

CX is king in commerce

Roberta Balcytyte at WPP’s Satalia explains how AI ensures that the customer experience (CX) is always king when it comes to commerce

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14 Dec 2022

Recommerce – the future of retail?

Recommerce – the selling of previously owned items to others who then reuse, recycle, or resell them – is very much ‘en vogue’ right now, says Heather Bull of WPP’s Hill+Knowlton Strategies

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07 Dec 2022

People, communities and markets

How we communicate with people depends upon how they define themselves as individuals, communities and markets. People are complex and inter-sectional and so are their needs.

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06 Dec 2022

Unseen: mobility is more than cars

UNSEEN, from Linna Zhao, Wavemaker China, and Tongji University, is a documentary series that investigates trends in value and ecosystem transformation – with the first episode focusing on The Third Space, or vehicles

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06 Dec 2022

Inclusion’s next wave

Being inclusive helps to shape better brands and businesses and, more importantly, results in a better world – and a better future – for everyone. By Marie Stafford and Sarah Tilley

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06 Dec 2022

Inspiration drives growth

The desire for inspiration is one of the strongest human drivers of all. And in marketing, too, a lot can be achieved with inspiration, says Peter Petermann.

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05 Dec 2022

Haleon: turning words into action

WPP’s Richard Hau explains how AI is helping blind and low vision consumers – and others – access information on healthcare packaging

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01 Dec 2022

WPP on 2023

The marketing innovations to watch

Krystal Olivieri

01 Dec 2022

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First-party data will spur new growth opportunities

GroupM and Choreograph’s Krystal Olivieri explains why 2023 will be the year to unlock the full potential of first-party data

Stephan Pretorius

01 Dec 2022

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The rise of occasion-led marketing

WPP's Stephan Pretorius discusses the impact that richer data and better analytics will have on the consumer experience