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Building a winning culture inside Airbnb is a combination of understanding brand purpose, knowing what to stand up for, and fostering core values, according to global head of customer experience, Aisling Hassell.

Nine has appointed a new group marketing director as part of an executive restructure that sees chief marketing and digital officer, Alex Parsons, focused more squarely on digital and data growth opportunities.

Marketers are all grappling with rapid change, but according to insurance and banking Suncorp Group's chief customer officer, Mark Reinke, it’s the customer-centric businesses that can operate more like digital platforms like AirBnB that will ultimately survive.

IAG has poached New Corp Australia’s head of innovation and product chief, Mark Drasutis, as its new chief digital officer to over digital strategy and experience.

​Myer has revealed its deputy CEO, chief merchandise and customer officer, Daniel Bracken, is leaving the company amid ongoing tough retail trading conditions.

Out-of-home player, JCDecaux, has promoted marketing director, Essie Wake, to chief marketing officers as it looks to expand its national footprint.

Salesforce global CMO, Simon Mulcahy, agrees there’s a problem with today’s modern marketing leader. And it’s one of definition.

A major rebrand can be challenging for even the most astute CMO, but for Ivanti’s CMO and executive VP, Steve Morton, the pressure to roll out the new brand was heightened by multiple and rapid company acquisitions and mergers.

Aussie aerial mapping business, Nearmap, has appointed a new VP of marketing as part of two senior executive hires aimed at driving its next phase of international growth.

In today’s highly competitive mad-tech landscape, it takes a lot for martech companies to foster scalable business growth. We speak to leading marketing, tech and ad experts and discover four key business lessons they're now employing when looking to generate sustainable growth and win over customers.

Digital technology has wrought unprecedented change on marketing, rewriting both the media landscape and the back-end systems and processes that marketers use to reach it. With so much focus on the technologies transforming marketing, it is not surprising managers and employees feel they are scrambling to keep up.

We’re excited to announce our final line-up of speakers for CMO Momentum in Sydney on 20 July!

Telstra’s former GM of consumer has swapped telco land for automobiles and become the first chief marketing officer at the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV).

RedBalloon’s CEO, Nick Baker, and first CMO, Rapthi Thanapalasingam, have left the online gift experiences business as part of a wholesale restructure of the organisation.

For the first time ever, CMO is holding a live webinar for the CMO50, giving all of our readers the opportunity to engage with three of the country’s finest marketing leaders.

Ask SumoSalad co-founder and CEO, Luke Baylis, what it means to be innovative, and he’ll tell you it requires a lot of hard work, creativity and the ability to communicate.

They say a problem shared is a problem halved. But when it comes to building a brand, sharing that problem with the wrong partner can have serious negative consequences.

QBE Australia has promoted executive GM of marketing, Bettina Pidcock, to chief customer officer, the first such role to be introduced at the insurance group.

Global digital adtech company, RhythmOne, has acquired the assets of data-driven marketing platform RadiumOne.

Music streaming service Pandora confirmed it is closing its doors in Australia and New Zealand after five years.

One of the mistaken beliefs people have around digital transformation is that recruiting for skills and experience is more important than having internal talent, AGL’s chief sales and marketing officer, Sandra de Castro, claims.