Too flat creative organisations are hardly a widespread problem. Rather, we need to work to cut down the middle management. This is what Peter Lundberg, CEO of Kapero, writes in a response to Björn Rietz's column in "Resumé".
The suitability of recruiting multi-skilled social media managers has been debated in recent months. Some are getting it right and others being way off. However, most debaters miss the big problems and fail to unravel the causes and solutions.
Investments in marketing gives even less effect. Not only in Sweden, but over large parts of the world. The downward trend has been going on for over ten years. It is also seen that confidence in advertising and marketing among consumers decreases.
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Most advertising buyers split their investments across an increasing number of channels and activities. The consequence is a lack of money, time and resources to develop campaigns with a higher level of ideas. When the ideas are there, there is often a lack of media money to reach out when the budget is spread over so many activities on so many platforms.
The event team at Ikea creates a number of global events during the year. One of the most famous attracts journalists from all over the world to Älmhult.
In the first edition of EffDay in Sweden, Kaj Johansson and Peter Lundberg from Kapero were Key-note speakers and held an appreciated live Webinar about e-commerce and marketing in Corona times.
Share of Search if often presented as the saviour of marketing metrics. Especially by small brands now getting access to free market research. And it is truly a fantastic measurement that most brands should use. But are there no downsides, ifs, buts or caveats?
How you get more effect from your marketing investments: Four points of advice extracted from Peter Field and Les Binet’s report ”Marketing effectiveness in the digital era”:
Oriflame’s products are sold by hundreds of thousands of so called Brand partners all over the world that work within their own local and private spheres.
Hundreds of local market offices and thousands of resellers and service workshops all over the world sell Scania trucks and communicate to end customers. This puts a demanding task on Scania’s global communication department.
What will happen to consumer behaviour after the Corona pandemic? Have we fast-forwarded development three years ahead or will we fall back to “normal levels” again?
With TV, radio and some of the world’s largest magazines and editorial sites in its portfolio, Bauer Media Group is a leading player in several of Europe’s largest markets.
