Andrew Thomas caught up with WPP’s CEO Mark Read at Cannes Lions to talk about WPP's wins, its investment in AI, the WPP employer brand, the challenges at Cannes for brand design agencies and that interview with Elon Musk.
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That’s all folks! What a fantastic Brand Summit conference that was, filled with brilliant insights and real-world examples of putting strategy and creativity into practice. Now, onto Transform Awards MEA 2023 👀
And finally, going out with a bang, @PepsiCo vice president and head of design, Gianmauro Vella, will discuss brand localization, and how this art can bridge national and cultural divides. One great example of putting this in practice include Pepsi’s ‘Mo Salah’ campaign in Egypt.
Up next, Dr. Federica Busa, advisor and strategy lead at WithFeeling, will give a thought-provoking session on experience planning. How can mindsets, skills and components create physical and mental environments to create memories that inspire and transform all audiences?
The moment you try to put a branding framework on it, you’re starting to come across this bigger universe and something that needs to take in the requirements and expectations of stakeholders.”
“Why are we not finding the bigger stories? Why are our products not trying to go beyond that superficial aspect and go deeper into meaning? What we have done is take every single touchpoint and then say, from the moment the visitor arrives, what is that they actually seeing?”
It seems like everyone is talking about NEOM, the planned smart city in Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia. @NEOM senior marketing director, Antony Lawrence, will discuss the importance of developing its brand values internally to help foster a strong sense of purpose