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CMO reinvented: ‘You can’t build tomorrow’s brand with yesterday’s marketing’

The Drum

It’s a stark warning – and one that lands hard in a room full of global marketing leaders from Microsoft Advertising, Skoda, Unilever, Samsung, Philips, Channel 4, Babyshop, Car Wow, ESL Faceit, Okta. She was speaking at The Drum and Globant Gut's roundtable held in the midst of Cannes’ creative frenzy. Read more here

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9 CMOs share their biggest lessons of 2025 so far and how they’re shaping their strategies

The Drum

From tech to tariffs, 2025 has presented no shortage of challenges – and opportunities – for global marketing leaders. I think we've moved from a VUCA world to a TUNA world; it's turbulent, it's uncertain, it's novel – and the biggest is ambiguous,” said Rupen Desai, CMO and venture partner at Una Terra. Read more here

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Here’s how this CMO is trying to revive the Topshop brand

The Drum

Rashid is Topshop and Topman’s new global marketing director. He joined four months ago with a remit that most marketers would envy and fear in equal measure: get the brand back there. meant the brand crossed generational boundaries. Read more here

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How a former journalist became the voice of a $32bn tech brand

The Drum

We catch up with Canva’s CMO, Zach Kitschke, at Cannes Lions to talk about the power of storytelling. Zach Kitschke didn’t join Canva to run a global marketing empire. He came in to write a press release.

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From IAB ALM 2025: Digital adtech gets serious on privacy

SmartBrief - Marketing

Brand Purpose from the CMO seat Considering this conference was the center of the digital advertising universe, the opening session, “The CMO Perspective,” was a good one to set the stage for the rest of the day’s events.

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The CMO Challenge: Personalized Conversations at Scale

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

At the Argyle CMO Executive Forum, 35% of the attending executives agreed that delivering personalized content as their greatest marketing challenge—the highest rated selection by far. Despite not having fully solved the challenges of personalization, they did agree that a first step for marketers is to understand content in context.

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Executive Insights: A Marketing Transformation Conversation with CMO Advisor Kathleen Schaub

Marketing Insider Group

Fred Isbell, Research Director Dresner Advisory Services, High technology Veteran and former Senior Director SAP Global Marketing. I have had the pleasure to work with an amazing array of people over my nearly 30+ year marketing career. This is why the CMO needs to own all the elements of MarTech that run marketing.

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