What it takes to Build Winning Marketing Organisation?
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Commerce for many Indias
E-commerce for many Indias: enabling consumer and brand diversity.
5 principles to build online experiences in Indian Languages
With 50% of India’s internet users coming online in the last 5 years, we are witnessing India’s linguistic diversity manifesting itself in the online world. Today, more than 45% of urban consumers prefer to consume content exclusively in an Indian language.
To help advertisers, and agencies successfully reach out to the Indian language users on the internet, this session will focus on the challenges that language first users face on the internet, and the top principles that will help you build for them.
The Metaverse: What is it? Who is it for? Who will build it?
We will walk you through the idea of the Metaverse - detailing why it exists, how it works, what it hopes to achieve, why it matters, and how it will strengthen the creator community overall. We will use Epic Games as a reference to showcase the ecosystem it provides for everything you need to start, ship, grow, and stand out from the crowd when building for the Metaverse.
Road to the Metaverse: Interaction and Immersion
Arun Srinivas discusses how businesses can harness the interactive tools today for growth, and prepare for an immersive future
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Keynote: From Mythos to Socios to Ethos
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Why the Lockscreen is the next big thing for brands!
Home to millions of connected consumers, India is in the midst of a content revolution. Be it gaming, shopping, or binge-watching, today's generation is looking to satiate their wants and needs instantly - making them Gen Now. Glance answers this need, here and now, on the Lock Screens of 173 million users. We're giving brands the opportunity to engage with their audience through a variety of fresh formats - including native content – display and video, interactive rich media experiences, one-click app installs, games, surveys, polls and quizzes.
Hear from leading advertisers as they discuss how they are winning Gen Now with the power of the Lock Screen.
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Innovative Use of Voice & Audio in Advertising
We all know that voice & audio as mediums are intuitive, growing and sticky platforms with huge scope for innovation, BUT there are several unanswered questions that come in the way of marketers adopting the mediums. This session with industry experts who have actually looked to lead this space via innovations and the use of technology will throw further light on how unique and effective these mediums can be.
Unveiling: Modern Marketing Reckoner - Building Winning Marketing Organisations
An agile tool to enable marketers to build winning marketing organisations in 2022.
It is inspired by the MMA Global Report. It finds that the differential in sales growth performance for firms with low and high marketing capability fit is 3X or three times. In fact, a 1% improvement in marketing capability fit for firms is associated with a 2.5% increase in sales growth based on a detailed study which was conducted to establish a structured methodology and framework thereby enabling organisations to match capability fit to drive growth and performance.
The India report at Impact showcases how capability fit can be improved and brings forth an ecosystem POV to share key insights and expertise on building winning marketing organisations. A must attend and a must download toolkit to build winning marketing organisations.
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The Need for Antivirus in Digital Marketing
Every company running digital campaigns, from the largest spenders to the new-age start-ups, are bleeding precious marketing spends on account of ad fraud. The level of ad fraud may vary between channels, but the size of the problem is big enough for advertisers to improve their ROI by taking action against it.
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Join us to learn the part the entire ecosystem plays to restore the much-required trust and transparency.
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Marketing & Beyond - A Fireside Chat with Manisha Lath Gupta
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Keynote: Future Consumer Engagement with Beauty
Virtually Live
The future of beauty will be shaped through game-changing green sciences, powered by beauty tech and multiplied by cutting edge technologies. In this talk, Asmita highlights how L’Oréal and it’s 34 international brands are preparing for a 2030 beauty consumer and pivoting more immersive consumer experiences with Extended Reality like A/R, V/R, etc. that will strive for greater consumer authenticity & proximity, bringing relevant services & automation, with the hybrid use of humans & bots.
Cutting Cha(i)t with Sukhleen & Cyrus
An easy flowing conversation between Sukhleen & Cyrus will cover a range of topics from Sukhleen & Cyrus's career journeys, the challenges faced by Sukhleen as a business leader and a recent mother of twins, how the pandemic has changed the overall consumer & market behaviour and also how maintaining a healthy mental and physical balance in today's extremely evolving world is so critical...
First Party Data – The Value Lever for Digital Marketing
Many organizations across industries have developed an appreciation for customer data, especially first-party data. But most do not have a strong conviction to invest in solutions to capture, manage and leverage customer data effectively. Panellists will share expert opinions on the subject and discuss specific use cases that can deliver business outcomes.
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Keynote Session: Future of Virtuality
Virtually Live
Since the beginning of the Internet, the concept of 'cyberspace' and 'online worlds' has been a constant theme and the subject of numerous famous science fiction plots, as well as the core objective of many startups. Given that we are now living in the era of exponential, science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact. Virtualisation is the inevitable future of everything, yet dehumanisation needs to be kept in-check at all times.
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Virtuality - An India Perspective
From buying real estate on the metaverse to job interviews in the metaverse, from enabling musical concerts to weddings, corporate India is abuzz with excitement about the possibilities of the Metaverse. It is time to do some number crunching to size up the likely metaverse-ready audience in India, and understand their profile and interests to connect better with them.
Welcome Keynote - WMO Theme Explained
Setting the tone to the day and demystifying the need to focus on building winning marketing organisations as a part of this year's theme - a structural framework of changing the environment of creating customer value and firm value which together deliver growth and performance. Learn ways of retooling and reshaping existing structures to rethink the environment completely.
Enabling commerce for the next wave of digital Indians
As digital access in India goes deeper into the country geographically and to different levels of digital literacy, building for these new users poses new challenges. This session will showcase some of the work by Flipkart to enable the next wave of digital users to access, use and trust e-commerce.
Metrics that Matter
A key barrier to the adoption of digital media strategies is the lack of universally accepted standards around metrics to measure digital media. In this session, the industry experts will talk about the commonly agreed-upon solutions and metrics to measure digital media, that will make the adoption of digital media easier for Indian advertisers.
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Unveiling: Brand Safety Reimagined - A toolkit for the modern marketer
Today's landscape has seen brands aggressively venturing into the digital space to market and sell their products via social and other platforms. Such a scenario makes it imperative for one to be extremely discerning, considering that appropriate positioning and reputation of the brand play a critical role today keeping in mind the awareness levels of the end consumer.
To highlight the increasing significance of Brand Safety, this report captures the essence of the topic basis domain expert views. The report carries some very rich and objective insights on collectively promoting the significance of Brand Safety.
In this session, besides emphasizing the key findings/pointers of this report, experts will also talk about the importance of Brand Safety, the guardrails they follow and recommend to the industry at large, and the evolving digital environment which makes it even more imperative for one to harness the appropriate brand safety measures.
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Keynote: Winning in the Evolving Marketing Landscape
The Evolving Marketplace will identify the four forces driving change which are multi-polar: globalization, demographic shifts, technology, and the long-term impact on mindsets due to Covid19. It will then identify the five ways marketing is changing using a framework called the 'ABCDE of Marketing' (audience, brand, content, data, and enterprise) to show how marketing has evolved.
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Fireside Chat: The Metaverse is the Medium
The Metaverse - a topic that has sparked the imagination of consumers and brands as the next big thing, with a promise to reshape the internet. It's also often misunderstood which is true for most emerging technologies. Join us at IMPACT 2022 as we discuss and debate what the Metaverse means for Indian Consumers and Advertisers.
Keynote: How the role of marketing is changing and what it takes to win?
In an era of unprecedented change, swirling headwinds and ever-increasing business pressure, Lou Paskalis, MMA President and COO, will share his thoughts on what it takes to lead a winning marketing organization. At a time when marketing has never been more important to the success of the business and indeed the global economy, marketing is being asked to take on additional responsibilities in areas ranging from customer experience, attribution, data and analytics to brand safety and suitability. Simultaneously, we’ve seen evidence of other organizations seemingly de-emphasizing the marketing role or conflating it with other roles in the C-Suite.
Lou will talk about how to make sense of these seemingly conflicting trends, the implication for the future of marketing and how marketers will need to “lean in” to reassert their role in delivering on the CEO’s growth agenda. Topics will include:
Unveiling : Modern Marketers' Guide to leveraging Data & MarTech
The Modern Marketers Guide to Leveraging Data & MarTech is an insight-packed, action-oriented playbook. This second edition focuses on why Data and MarTech need to be looked at from the same lens to ensure that together they create great business impact.
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• Industry Survey 2022 outcomes - Understanding the Data and MarTech maturity of organisations
• How do brands build connected customer experiences?
• Personalisation in a cookieless world, leveraging micro-moments, hyper-personalization
• Technology and digital experiences in which the marketing world is investing in
• What is the right MarTech stack for one’s brand/organisation?
• Real-world success stories of impactful MarTech and Data led solutions in addressing today’s business problems
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Holistic Marketing
Marketing straddles across multiple functions in an organization. The primary role of Marketing is to create Value- Customer/Consumer Value and thereby Firm Value. The world is constantly evolving, more so now and so are consumers. Organizations and marketers need to evolve to keep pace. Nurturing Leadership is a key aspect of evolving Marketers. A more holistic and consumer-centric approach is key to success.
