Advertising partnerships are commercial arrangements where two or more brands co-invest in media, content, or audience access to achieve outcomes neither could reach as efficiently alone. Done well, they reduce cost per acquisition, extend reach into qualified audiences, and create attribution trails that standalone campaigns rarely produce. Done badly, they consume disproportionate time, generate brand…
The Sam’s Club CMO role is one of the more commercially demanding marketing leadership positions in American retail. Sitting inside Walmart Inc., Sam’s Club operates as a membership warehouse club competing directly with Costco and BJ’s Wholesale, which means the CMO is accountable not just for brand perception but for a metric that most retail…
Pay for performance marketing is a commercial arrangement where advertisers pay only when a defined outcome occurs, such as a click, lead, sale, or app install. It sounds like the ideal model: spend money only when something happens. In practice, it is more complicated than that, and the complications are worth understanding before you commit…
October 2025 brought another round of senior marketing leadership moves, mandate shifts, and organisational resets across major brands. The pattern is familiar but worth paying attention to: CMOs are moving faster than ever, the roles they’re stepping into look different from the ones they’re leaving, and the gap between what boards expect and what marketing…
Brand collaborations and partnerships can create genuine commercial value, but they carry a category of risk that most marketing teams underestimate until it is too late. When two brands share creative assets, audiences, or IP, the question of who owns what, and what each party can do with it after the partnership ends, is rarely…
An agency pitch is a competitive presentation in which an agency makes its case for winning a client’s business. Done well, it is a structured argument, not a performance. The agencies that consistently win pitches are not the ones with the slickest decks or the most creative theatre. They are the ones that understand the…
An affiliate program audit is a structured review of your affiliate channel’s performance, partner quality, attribution accuracy, and commercial contribution. Done properly, it separates the affiliates genuinely driving incremental revenue from those collecting commission on sales that would have happened anyway. Most programs are not audited nearly often enough. They accumulate partners, commission structures, and…
Experiential marketing in 2025 is splitting into two camps: brands creating genuine, memorable interactions that shift how people feel about them, and brands spending significant budgets on elaborate stunts that generate Instagram content and very little else. The gap between those two outcomes is not a creative problem. It is a strategic one. The trends…
The Ad Age Nextgen Marketing Summit is an annual gathering where emerging marketing leaders and senior practitioners exchange ideas on where the discipline is heading. If you attend expecting a clean consensus on what works, you will leave disappointed. What you get instead is a useful cross-section of the tensions currently running through the industry:…
Referral program ROI is one of those metrics that looks clean on a dashboard and gets complicated the moment you interrogate it. The surface calculation is simple enough: divide the revenue generated by referred customers by the total cost of running the program. What sits beneath that fraction, though, is where most programs either earn…
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