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Biennale of Sydney hunts for new CMO

The Biennale of Sydney is on the hunt for a new CMO following the departure of head of marketing and sponsorship, Ashley de Silva.

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Mondelez Australia MD: What partnering with startups has taught me as a brand leader

In December, Mondelez International revealed the results of its inaugural Mobile Futures program in Australia, partnering five key brands with local technology startups. We catch up with the company's MD for Australia and New Zealand, Amanda Banfield, to hear her views as a leader on how the program has impacted the rest of the business.

Google Glass: down but not out

When Google has said it would end its Explorer program for Glass and stop selling the current version to consumers, a few premature obituaries were written for the head-worn device.

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Facebook open-sources new AI smarts

Facebook has released as open source some software modules that can speed image recognition, language modeling and other machine learning tasks, in a move to advance computer artificial intelligence for itself and others,

Leadership

How Flight Centre is mapping out a new kind of customer journey

It’s the destination every brand wants to reach: Personalised customer engagement. And at Flight Centre, the ticket is booked and the trip well underway thanks to investments in customer journey mapping, marketing resources, content delivery and omni-channel retailing.

Digital Marketing

10 views on creativity versus technology from marketers at CES 2015

As technology permeates every aspect of marketing and advertising, there is ongoing debate as to its impact on creativity and innovation. Here, brand owners, publishers, vendors and agencies discuss their views on creativity in a technology saturated world, and how technology is helping – or hindering – their creative thinking.

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2015 State of Marketing: Marketers ramp up mobile, social spend

Marketers are ramping up spending on social and mobile activities and capabilities, and see CRM, mobile apps and marketing analytics as core technologies for building customer engagement, according to the 2015 State of Marketing Report from Salesforce.

Digital Marketing

How to use Ebooks to improve your content marketing strategy

"Thin" online content, such as low-quality guest blog posts, is out this year, thanks to the various Google algorithm updates of the past few years. Experts suggest that in 2015 and beyond, it will be all about "fat" content -- such as ebooks.

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Marketing prowess versus the enigma of the metaverse

Flash back to the classic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Television-obsessed Mike insists on becoming the first person to be ‘sent by Wonkavision’, dematerialising on one end, pixel by pixel, and materialising in another space. His cinematic dreams are realised thanks to rash decisions as he is shrunken down to fit the digital universe, followed by a trip to the taffy puller to return to normal size.

Liz Miller

VP, Constellation Research

Why Excellent Leadership Begins with Vertical Growth

Why is it there is no shortage of leadership development materials, yet outstanding leadership is so rare? Despite having access to so many leadership principles, tools, systems and processes, why is it so hard to develop and improve as a leader?

Michael Bunting

Author, leadership expert

More than money talks in sports sponsorship

As a nation united by sport, brands are beginning to learn money alone won’t talk without aligned values and action. If recent events with major leagues and their players have shown us anything, it’s the next generation of athletes are standing by what they believe in – and they won’t let their values be superseded by money.

Simone Waugh

Managing Director, Publicis Queensland

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