Marketing can change the world
Through crisis and challenges, B2B marketers have responded with resilience and resolve. Through unforeseeable twists and turns, B2B marketers showcased insight and agility. When their organizations needed them most, B2B marketers have responded, are responding and will respond with innovation and inspiration. This is the reason for and guiding spirit behind the Drum’s first annual B2B WorldFest, developed in partnership with Stein IAS. WorldFest celebrates the best thinkers and doers. Explores the convergence of creativity and technology, of strategy and culture. Investigates the transformations that will shape the future. If B2B is your world, WorldFest is your event.
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Agility. A watchword of marketing in this era. Can creatives rise to the agility challenge? Let’s set them a One Minute Brief competition!
Created by Nick Entwistle at The Bank of Creativity, One Minute Brief (OMB) is designed to change the way people think about advertising and the way creatives...
As B2B marketers seek to pick up the pace of growth now and into the new year, what do their growth agendas look like? What are the measures and markers of growth today? How is growth being re-defined as businesses are being called on to contribute to much more than shareholder wealth? This panel...
Innovative. Agile. Resilient. Bold. Business and marketing leaders embrace these terms, but how are they embedding these qualities and behaviors in themselves and their organizations? Especially now, when the rapid pace of disruption and transformation has been further accelerated by Covid-19, economic...
The pandemic has been the digital transformation accelerant of the decade, literally forcing businesses to do in months what hasn’t been accomplished in the decade prior. And forcing marketers to make their own full-on digital transformation push. At this digital inflection point that is affecting...
B2B has as much of a role to play in BLM as its consumer parts in adland. The industry recognizes the stunning lack of diversity in the advertising industry and the need for change and action. Yet, many of us are grappling with what actions should be taken. From eliminating conscious and unconscious...
MQLs. SQLs. SALs. B2B marketers are well versed in leads of all flavors and colors. In this session, let’s journey in search of the EQL – the emotionally qualified lead. The thesis gaining ground in B2B circles is that emotion can and should play a much larger role in B2B creative and content experiences...
Will Covid-19 be a tipping point for technology? History has proven that with any crisis, new opportunities and ways of doing things emerge. Meanwhile, businesses are limited in their personal interactions, margins are razor-thin, and budgets continue to tighten. So, what does the future of martech...
We’re already up to our necks in data. So, what are the smart, achievable approaches to connecting with and staying close to customers? From intent data to privacy and regulatory issues, real-time marketing to the cookie conundrum, first-party data challenges to first-party opportunities, where should...
What does the future of work look like? How do you shape, cement and leverage company culture through difficult times? From space and place, to culture and collaboration, to relevance and relationships, industry leaders explore ways of working that can work better for people, for companies and for...
Digital acceleration is affecting every aspect of B2B marketing – from how creative and content experiences are imagined and delivered, to how digital channels are utilized with ever-greater investment, to how customer relationships are started and sustained.
What’s lagging behind, though,...
