2024 Media Highlights with Michael Beach
The five key media highlights that matter heading into 2025.
Holiday Ads Special live from Chicago
Our sold out live show celebrating the best holiday ads, past and present.
EP#1 Planning On The Outside (Life After Agency Life)
After years inside agencies, James, Adrian and Brent share why they left, what they were chasing and how they got there.
Live from Los Angeles: Brands & Entertainment
We hear about the role of branded entertainment in the marketing mix.
How McCain’s patient commitment to brand building paid off
Winner of the prestigious 2024 IPA Effectiveness Award Grand Prix for long-term growth.
Live from New York: The Future of Ideas
Recorded in front of a live audience at W+K, New York on Oct. 17th, 2024.
How Cheetos flipped a negative feature into a positive vibe
How their shift from “Families” to “Rejuvenilles” turned around the brand’s fortunes.
Workday's Rockstars campaign and its Effie-winning goal
While using the term Rockstar to describe someone in the office isn't new, exploring how true rockstars feel about it is.
Burger King's buzz-building "Bundles of Joy" campaign
Controversial to some, liberating to others, the idea caught fire in media.
Live Tour from London: Martin Weigel, Lucy Jameson and Martin Beverley
We hear how having planners as founders made London The Home of Planning. How advertising might have an issue, but brands don’t, etc.
The Titanium-winning Marina Prieto campaign from JCDecaux & DAVID
A masterclass in demonstrating the creative effectiveness of a medium or message. Tons of new stuff here.
Pot Noodle's brilliant, Effie-winning response to a failed product launch
Inspired by Carlsberg and KFC, Pot Noodle designed a response to a product fail that lifted both the brand and the relaunched product to unexpected levels.
Classics episode: Harvey Keitel for Direct Line. An APG Gold winner.
Richard Huntington, CSO at Saatchi shares the strategy that delivered 6 yrs of growth. And the CEO who tried to kill it.
The truth behind the Michael Cera campaign
Frustrated by how others have mis-represented it, Chris Beresford-Hill shares his first-hand knowledge.
Rerun: How Michelob Ultra’s “Social Athlete” reframed lite beer
While subsequent work has built on "It's only worth it if you can enjoy it," this is the back story.
A Classics Episode: Redefining the Value of a Vote
It shocked us back in 1997 and won an APG Gold. But the question is, are we now immune to it?
Pop-Tarts 2024 Gold Effie winning Pop-Tartigans
This socially rooted campaign won for influencer marketing.
Doordash's Titanium Grand Prix winner from W+K
An audacious idea that got eight million submissions and 11.9 billion earned impressions.
Classic's Episode: Sainsbury's Try Something New
Craig Mawdsley shares the story behind this APG Grand Prix winning campaign from 2007.
Turning bar codes into cookies with OREO "Codes"
Milk's favorite cookie, losing share, found new ways to bring shoppers across aisles. 2024 Effie Gold winner.
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2024 Effectiveness Series
- 2025
- Adam&EveDDB
- Adrian Ho
- Aisea Laungaue
- Alison Falconer
- Andy Grayson
- Andy Lindblade
- Anna-Scott Philips
- APG Awards
- APG London
- Armando Potter
- BBH
- Ben Doepke
- Ben Shaw
- Brand Leadership
- Brian Brydon
- Brian Ritter
- Bridget Angear
- Caroline Gregory
- CFO/CMO
- Chris Beresford-Hill
- Christian Cocker
- Claire Strickett
- Connections Role in Effectiveness
- Craig Mawdsley
- Dan Reynolds
- Dan Sutton
- David Mortimer
- Disney
- Effectiveness 2024
- Elizabeth Paul
- Faisal Siddiqui
- Flavia Simoes
- Future-Proofing Your Strategy Department
- George Felix
- Greg Fass
- Greg Hahn
- James Hurman
- Jamie Peate
- Jason Scoggins
- Jeff McCrory
- Jen Costello
- Jennifer Baldwin
- Jenny Lindquist
- Joey Camire
- John Doyle
- John Hickman
- John Kenny
- Julian Cole (on creative briefs)
- Karen Martin
- Kathleen Kindle
- Kaylin Goldstein
- Kit Kat
- Laura Rowan
- Laura Visco
- Les Binet
- Lindsay Gray
- Live Tour 2024
- Loz Horner
- Lucy Jameson
- Mark Kirkham
- Mark Ritson
- Market Research
- Martin Beverley
- Martin Weigel
- Mary Kyriakidi
- Matt Williams
- Matthew Clay
- MC Saatchi
- Michelle Spillane
- Muiris O Riada
- Nikki Crumpton
- Paula Bloodworth
- Planning for Effectiveness
- Ray Patterson
- RG Logan
- Ricardo Perez
- Richard Brim
- Rob Campbell
- Rory Gallery
- Saskia Jones
- Siobhan Lonergan
- Start-Ups Scale-Ups Grown-Ups
- Stephanie Ehui
- Tass Tsitsopoulus
- Thomas O'Neill
- Tiffany Graeff
- Tiina Salzberg
- Tom Morton
- Tom Roach
- Tom Sussman
- U-Studio
- VML
- Will Grundy