The IAB Australia Podcast

Over the last few years content environments have been playing a more significant role in the affiliate marketing industry. In the 2024 Affiliate and Partnership Marketing Industry Review released earlier this year by the IAB Affiliate Marketing Working Group, over 6 in 10 brands and agencies investing in the channel intended to increase the content related component of their investment over the next year. In this episode we discuss this topic with Lauren Leisk, Head of Affiliate Partnerships at Are Media and Chris Ferguson, Commercial Director APAC at Future. 

In this episode we discuss ways that can help marketers give their ad and marketing investments the best chance of long term success with Mark Kennedy, the Managing Partner at Consulting by Kantar and  Maddie Jahnke, Head of Marketing at Pernod Ricard. Recently Kantar in collaboration with WARC published a new paper titled Destination: Marketing Effectiveness which aggregates the results from Kantar client activity across the globe and looks at the drivers for success as well as comparing different geographic regions.

In this episode we are joined by Martyn Raab from Endeavour Group and John Harvey Faurholt from Microsoft to discuss retail media trends in Australia including technology developments, embedding retail media in a retail business and remaining customer experience obsessed. 

In this episode we hear from Xavier Amouroux, Executive Director Marketing & Communications at QUT and Adam Kennedy, MD VML Brisbane about the changing the needs of university students and how this impacts tertiary education marketing.  We hear how VML and QUT have worked together to help transform the communications journey with potential students. 

In this episode we discuss programmatic advertising in Australia including how emerging channels such as retail media, programmatic DOOH and audio are impacting programmatic investment. Our guests Kali Guillas from The Trade Desk and Benton Goodbrand from Kinesso provide a local perspective on data signals that are valuable to buyers, reducing waste and the control levers that buyers are looking for currently.