ICYMI: Yesterday, B&T’s Tom Fogden hosted a webinar with me, covering everything a marketer or procurement person needs to consider to run a successful pitch to hire your next agency in 2024. buff.ly/47FNZHq

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I chat with Kylie Ridler-Dutton, TrinityP3’s senior global marketing consultant, who has managed some of the most high-profile agency pitches in Australia and debunks many of the pitching myths. buff.ly/3ZLKeyb

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I chat with Kiaran Geen, APAC President; Samantha Cunliffe, Managing Director ANZ; and Jake Hird, APAC VP of Strategy & Solutions at Dentsu B2B about the fourth global edition of the Superpower Index Research. buff.ly/3ZWHHBq

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I chat with Sharon Zeev Poole, the founder of Agent99; Elzanne Strydom, the founder of Connected Culture; and Dan Beaumont, the founder of GAME Creative Advisory, about innovation in marketing comms. buff.ly/4f6e70F

Paying by the hour, you want a big idea as fast as possible. Charging by the hour, you want to take as long as possible. Why agencies need to charge for output, not hours, in Time Well Spent? Why Advertising Must Break Free of Hourly Billing buff.ly/3YBC1fd

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, the tables are turned. B&T editor Tom Fogden interviewed me in a live Q&A on how marketers and procurement professionals can be more successful in managing agency pitches. buff.ly/3Yub23M

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I talk with Chris Walton, the Managing Director of Nunn Media, Australia's Leading Independent Media Agency. Earlier this year, he attended the inaugural Advertising Who Cares meeting in London. buff.ly/4hyUkJk

This month's Woolley Marketing in Campaign Asia is about why we must remember our target audience are humans, too. Thanks again to Dennis Flad for the insightful and humorous way he brings this to life. buff.ly/4ehYYIT

In this month's Woolley Ideas in LBB Online, I ask, "Is the Big Idea Now Just a Collection of Smaller Ideas?" The days of executing big ideas on television are gone. Clients still need big ideas, but they need to take a different shape. buff.ly/4fEarnL

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I talk with Nick Manning, founder of Encyclomedia International, and patron of Advertising: Who Cares? and TrinityP3's Stephen Wright to discuss whether something is rotten in the media agency world or not?buff.ly/4fL3u3O

This week on the Managing Marketing podcast, I talk with Will Anstee, the CEO of the Online Safety Agency, who shares the issues and opportunities to deliver the benefits and minimise the harm of social media for children and teens. buff.ly/490uqu5

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I continue discussing with Will Anstee, CEO of the Online Safety Agency, how to minimise the harm of social media for children and teens, the role the tech platforms play, and the need for legislation. buff.ly/3OpGuM7

This month in Woolley Marketing, I look at the agency village and discuss what it takes to make it a dream team or a complete disaster. And if you manage a village—beware of the 'village idiot'. Each month in Campaign Asia buff.ly/4ggwsbW

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, I talk with John Pabon, a sustainability author, consultant, speaker, and TikTok influencer with two decades of experience in the field. buff.ly/3ZugofZ

This month's Woolley Ideas in LBBOnline looks at the era of fast advertising execution. I dig into the gap between the ad industry's response to Coca-Cola's AI Christmas ad and consumers in this opinion piece, "When Perfect is the Enemy of Progress". buff.ly/4g6kvG1

I asked AI to prioritise the pain points that dominated marketing agendas across Asia-Pacific in 2024. Here's the result in "An AI lens on the marketing headaches of 2024" in Campaign Asia buff.ly/4iyCuqr

This week on the Managing Marketing Podcast, Ellie Angell talks with Sean Cummins, founder and creative strategist at cummins&partners, who returns to the podcast eight years later to share his views on the state of the industry. buff.ly/3Dpd4eU

Oh, no. So tragic.

Woolley Marketing returns to Campaign Asia for 2025, highlighting that true disruption is rare, from Netflix to Nvidia. I share my nuanced perspective on the difference between evolution and revolution in business in "Why change is not always disruption." buff.ly/4gKISt7

#Woolley #marketing There was a time when the work spoke for itself—reels packed with iconic ads that did the creative magic. Today, even award-winning work needs a story to grab attention. Darren Woolley campaignasia.com/article/woolle…