We talk to four brands running customer loyalty programs to find out what they’re doing to meet the changing needs of more technology-savvy, increasingly mobile customers.

Luxury holiday destination brand, Club Med, is increasing marketing spend on social media channels in a bid to further drive community engagement, according to its digital strategy leader.

When it comes to being a marketing chief these days, emphasis is often placed on the importance of an analytical, data-driven approach. But for Wotif Group’s general manager of marketing, Michael Betteridge, success comes from having the best of both science and art.

Woolworths has retained the top spot as Australia’s most valuable brand and Telstra has chalked up the highest growth of any local brand to date, according to the latest Brand Finance Global 500 list.

When it comes to enduring brands that have withstood the test of time, many of us think of 20th century luminaries such as Coca-Cola. But there is a much older brand out there that has not only remained relevant for the past 2000 or so years, it is also followed by one-third of the world’s population.

ANZ Bank has come up trumps as Australia’s most valuable banking brand in a new ranking of the world’s biggest banks.

Thanks to the rise of digital marketing channels, marketers now have an unprecedented number of ways to communicate with existing and potential customers.

Australian wealth management giant, AMP, has appointed its first director of brand and marketing as it moves to build deeper levels of customer engagement.

Embracing “disruptive” marketing techniques will lie at the heart of a strategic brand blitz being put together by the new and first head of marketing at Australian online jobs platform, OneShift.

Telstra is embarking on the next stage of its identity transformation strategy with a brand marketing program incorporating nation-wide TV ads, digital marketing and plenty of fresh content.

Using social media poorly can do more damage to a brand than not using it at all, according to marketers on a panel held by hosting and colocation firm UKFast at its office in Manchester.

There aren’t that many marketers who boast both solid branding roots and broader business leadership and development experience. But head of territory Australia and New Zealand for music streaming company Rdio, Colin Blake, not only possesses these skills, he’s also coached the Canadian Olympics snowboarding team.

Social media has become an intrinsic part of our brand and corporate lives. Yet the number of organisations lacking governance strategies around these highly interactive and dynamic channels is alarming.

A new report into the annual Facebook performance of more than 2500 Australian brands has highlighted the rising demand from consumers to engage with brands socially.

Many marketers can count the number of Australian owned, globally recognised brands on one hand. So it’s no surprise that experienced marketer and strategist, Rob Langtry, considers being brand custodian for the country’s wool industry a rare privilege.

The rush for many businesses to get online inevitably leads to a heavy focus on technology and marketing. But for WA’s Yahava KoffeeWorks, something else remains just as important – the brand.

Brand social engagement should be structured and driven by specific objectives or shouldn’t be attempted at all, the head of social strategy for BBC Worldwide claims.

Word-of-mouth marketing is responsible for up to 50 per cent of all purchase decisions and should be an increasingly important part of a marketer’s on and offline brand approach, global word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing expert, Geno Church, claims.

Companies love touting stories of when their customer service staff have gone above and beyond the call of duty to delight a customer in resolving what might have otherwise been a negative situation.