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Domino’s has brought on a new local chief marketing officer to support activities across the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Multi Channel Network’s (MCN) chief sales and marketing officer, Mark Frain, has been appointed as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective immediately.

Village Roadshow Limited has signed a group-wide partnership with one of Australasia’s largest beverage companies, Lion Private Limited.

Freeview has nabbed former Foxtel store TV and main event manager, Cameron Crain, as its new head of marketing.

Marketing leaders are seeking to bring more content managers and writers in-house with an understanding of user experience in online, while bumping up temporary and contract staff to assist with digital projects, a new report claims.

Looker CMO, Jennifer Grant, is eager to test machine learning on its website and investigate new martech tools to see how the company can continue to optimise and grow the business.

Large established companies need to take a “best of both worlds” approach to innovation in order to be competitive and meet ongoing consumer expectations, according to Daniela Simpson, a FMCG executive and a newly appointed general manager of a $1.1 billion candy and fruit snacks business unit of Ferrero USA.

​In an era of customer experience and social responsibility, what can marketers do to ensure not only their organisations, but also their brands, are more inclusive and free from stereotypes and bias?

Building a modern-marketing function - and injecting and maintaining ‘cultural’ elements like back-end collaboration - is easier said than done, according to a group of marketing chiefs speaking at the second annual CMO Momentum.

​More than 35 of Australia's marketing leaders came together before the recent CMO Momentum conference in Sydney to debate what it truly takes to foster customer-led innovation at a special breakfast held by CMO in partnership with our CMO50 sponsor, Adobe. Here are pictorial highlights from the event.

Cracker Barrel's former chief marketer, Chris Ciavarra, has bucked the trend and landed himself a board role, a feat he recognises isn’t always possible for today’s modern marketing professionals.

​Brands that don’t get on the front foot with a voice strategy will be missing out on a significant share of the market.

​Former Yahoo7 local chief and advertising and media veteran, Ed Harrison, has emerged as the new CEO of ASX-listed market intelligence firm, iSentia.

The skills required of marketing leaders in startups are not as dissimilar to CMOs across established organisations and centre around two key attributes: Listening and responding accordingly.

​More than 100 of Australia's marketing leaders descended on the ICC Sydney on 4 July for our second annual CMO Momentum conference. Here are pictorial highlights from the event for sustaining and leading the modern marketing function.

Looker CMO, Jennifer Grant, didn’t always envision a career in marketing. In fact, she had her heart set on being an actress. That was, until she realised business - marketing in particular - was her true calling.

While the reputations of Australia’s financial services companies might be copping a hammering right now at the hands of the Royal Commission, they might take take heart from the knowledge that no matter how bad things, there is usually a way back. Most of the time, at least.

Domain has recruited former Google Australia and New Zealand managing director, Jason Pellegrino, has its new chief following the sudden departure of Antony Catalano earlier this year.

Home-grown freelance business management marketplace, Expert360, has hired its first VP of marketing to help accelerate its regional presence.

​What started as a potentially career-ending sea change for Splosh CMO, Sally Boyes, has ended up being the best and most unique opportunity of her profession to date.

T2 CEO, Nicole Sparshott, is on a big mission: To take a 22-year-old Australian business centred around the humble tea leaf and all its trappings, and infuse it into the mindset of a new generation of customers and the rest of the world.