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Driving radio listeners to digital content is easy if you understand their drivers. For Idil Cakim, Senior Vice President, Research and Insights at Audacy, Inc., the key to doing so was combining creative and analytics with the unique sonic elements of her business.
Tune in to the latest Shiny New Object Podcast to hear about audio and digital marketing and get Idil's top data driven marketing tips.
The Shiny New Object podcast is a production of Automated Creative, a creative effectiveness platform that turns brands' media impressions into marketing intelligence. Find out more at www.automatedcreative.net

Episode #120. This episode is a leadership topic on Impact and the methodology of an impactful leader. 
Creating impact is an important skill for marketers as so much of our role is about creating a positive effect and influence i.e. impact, both internally with stakeholders and externally with our markets, customers and consumers.  
Abby is joined by Scott Morrison, Founder, Speaker, Author and NED. Scott is an experienced client-side and agency-side marketer at businesses including Diesel, Levi’s, Activision, W&K and Saatchi & Saatchi. As founder of The Boom, Scott works with ambitious leaders who want to create impact with pace with his Unblock, Unlock and Unleash approach to create movement and “business unusual”. 
In this episode, Scott shares his definition of impactful leadership, positive disruption, boom and bust mindset, leadership fundamentals and barriers that prevent impactful leadership. Plus his career highs and lows (including an experience with Nelson Mandela) and advice for marketers of tomorrow. 
Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn
Guest: Scott Morrison FRSA | LinkedIn 

This episode is sponsored by Stickybeak 
It’s time to put the consumer back at the heart of every decision, and thanks to Stickybeak, consumer feedback is at your fingertips. The self-service, affordable, consumer testing platform delivers actionable insights in hours, not weeks! So to find out what your consumers think before you go to market   
Visit Stickybeak.co/wholemarketer and use code WHOLEMARKETER for $100 USD off your first test, so you can see how Stickybeak are changing the way marketers work.  

The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com

Honing in on the ‘S’ of E S G – a critical component of the sustainability journey
ESG – environmental, social, governance, a subject that has been an increasing topic of debate and discussion, but what about the S?
In this episode we speak to Beth Knight, a leading figure in social impact and sustainability, with over 15 years’ experience in purpose-led business transformation – Beth shares incredible insights as we take a deeper diver into the ‘S’ for social - an area that, whilst often the least talked about, is critical for key stakeholders (employees, customers, communities) who are looking to gauge whether they want to engage.
With information being more accessible, people are more vocal, and therefore, it is no longer enough for organisations to simply broadcast messages that stakeholders take at face value, without question.
Beth speaks about the rise of data and sentiment monitoring to understand if your brand is doing well beyond the campaigns and how looking at the full health of your organisation is now a critical part the sustainability journey.
We discuss the challenges faced by large corporations who have teams dedicated to ESG and sustainability and Beth shares some insightful ‘hacks’ for SMEs who perhaps don’t have the resources, but need to start or accelerate their journeys.
Beth’s commitment to making a positive impact is unwavering – and with her wealth of experience, we could have picked Beth’s brains for hours – so many insights and examples.
Tune in to hear Beth talk about:
How we raise the profile of the S in ESG?The acceleration of the social impact conversation and the opportunities that align with that social side.How we advance the conversations and narrative both internally and externally.The importance of understanding the materiality assessment of an organisation and the social impact indicators within that. How as a Marketer you should be helping your organisation plan how you're going to proactively engage with key stakeholders on the ‘Social’ topics.The challenges being faced by SMEs and the ‘hacks’ to navigate them.The role of Social Marketing (not to be confused with social media marketing) in educating, driving awareness and changing behaviours.
For more information about Beth Knight - you can visit her site.
Enjoy…
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You’ll find the Podcast on all the usual pod platforms - and also on The Global Player and via The Marketing Society. If you love it, do share it and spread the word. Talking about climate change and the role we play is one of the most important things we can do. So join the conversation. We’re all in this together.
Our podcasts are recorded purely via online conferencing platforms, we apologise for any minor sound quality issues.

Although alignment between sales and marketing functions seems a no brainer, most organisations fail to do it and miss out on enhancing their creative effectiveness, says Patrick Janssen, Partner Marketing Manager at Cisco. Listen to his interview on the Shiny New Object Podcast to learn more cohesion between business units and the advantages this can bring to your marketing strategy and execution.
The Shiny New Object podcast is a production of Automated Creative, a creative effectiveness platform that turns brands' media impressions into marketing intelligence. Find out more at www.automatedcreative.net

Episode #119. Gaining buy-in is the soft skill, leadership and personal understanding topic of today’s podcast. 
Gaining buy-in is a critical skill for marketers, particularly as marketing moves from a support function to one leading the long-term commercial agenda – gaining buy-in and alignment on our strategy and vision is imperative to gain support, investment and resource from the Board to bring these plans to life. 
Joining Abby to discuss how marketers approach gaining buy-in is Rachael Wheatley, MD of Watertight Business Thinking. As a strategist, planner, trainer, mentor and coach with 35 years in the marketing profession, Rachael is passionate about marketing-centred business transformation. 
In this episode, Rachael shares her definition of buy-in (both for the marketing function and for individuals), the 2 key challenges marketers need to overcome and finding allies. Plus Rachael’s career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow. 
Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn
Guest: Rachael Wheatley | LinkedIn

This episode is sponsored by Stickybeak 
It’s time to put the consumer back at the heart of every decision, and thanks to Stickybeak, consumer feedback is at your fingertips. The self-service, affordable, consumer testing platform delivers actionable insights in hours, not weeks! So to find out what your consumers think before you go to market   
Visit Stickybeak.co/wholemarketer and use code WHOLEMARKETER for $100 USD off your first test, so you can see how Stickybeak are changing the way marketers work.  

The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com 

“Be the voice of the consumer who wants to do more.”
ESG – environmental, social and growth, (yep you read that right), growth rather than governance. We absolutely loved that take from Sandy Skees, Purpose and Impact Global Lead at Porter Novelli. We’ve wanted to talk to Sandy for some time since we came across their research on the ‘Intention – Action Gap - the ‘Rise of the Conscious Consumer’, when writing ‘Can Marketing Save the Planet - 101 Ways to use Sustainable Marketing as a Force for Good’.
This particular piece of research looks at people’s willingness to adopt changes to their behaviours, and not just by purchasing ‘green’ products. Sandy shares example after example of the significant shifts that are happening with consumer appetite and behaviour - shifts which are some of the biggest indicators yet that things are starting to change, and quickly.
Tune in and listen as Sandy shares many fascinating insights from the data and research and, her vast knowledge and decades of experience in this space. You’ll learn:
What the pressure points are in driving new mindsets.What Marketers need to do and why a focus on culture change is critical.Why one of the most important roles of business is to change societal behaviours and how communication is the most powerful way of doing this.Why communication has to be intentional.What is holding brands back.What some of the biggest challenges facing marketers are.
For more information about Sandy Skees - you can visit her site.
To view the research The Gap Between Say and Do - see here.
Enjoy…