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Episode 1: Marketing strategy and tactics
Russell is the award-winning editor-in-chief of the UK's most prominent marketing title, Marketing Week, leading its multimedia development and team of journalists. A trusted authority on marketing issues, he regularly hosts and appears on panels at industry events. He is also a regular contributor to national television and radio shows on marketing issues. Prior to this he was Marketing Week's news editor.
In 2020 he also took on an expanded role with responsibility for the editorial programme of the Festival Marketing, the largest global event dedicated to brand marketers, where marketers can learn, celebrate and shape the future.
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Creativity on TikTok: how brands are embracing the popular video app
TikTok has become the go-to destination for people looking for fun, entertaining and inspiring short-form videos. But how can advertisers make the most of the app? In the second instalment of our partnership series, we explore how brands from Balenciaga to Mercedes-Benz and Converse are using TikTok to drive engagement, raise awareness and reach new audiences, and offer some advice for those who are new to the platform
By now, you'll have all heard of TikTok: the short-form video app that has taken the world by storm. Since its launch in 2017, the platform has established itself as a place for positivity and creative expression - bringing joy to millions of people - and has become the most downloaded video app in the world.
For brands, TikTok can deliver a big audience, but it delivers even bigger engagement. Take one of the most popular trends on the platform right now – #ratethings, where users post videos rating anything and everything with a score out of 10. That hashtag has had over 1.3 billion views from the hundreds of thousands of videos users have created. Or the #FlipTheSwitch trend. Even though it is over a year old, people are still creating videos with their friends and family where they swap clothes at the flip of a switch, and video views have rocketed past the 6.1 billion mark.
So where do brands fit in? Many brands have already embraced the communities, platform codes and ad products that are present on TikTok, and are seeing impressive results. Brands as diverse as Pretty Little Thing, Converse, Balenciaga and Mercedes-Benz are posting on the platform in a variety of ways. Some are interacting with communities through Branded Hashtag Challenges; others are using impressive organic strategies managed by in-house teams; while some have staged ambitious through-the-line campaigns, mixing TikTok, Creators, competitions and events to produce significant spikes in brand awareness and engagement.
As with any emergent platform, the way brands use it is still developing – and fast. For those who are new to the platform, we've put together some advice on how to approach the app, and rounded up some of its most successful and innovative campaigns.
Step 1: Get to know your TikTok community and their codes
Russell Parsons
Editor-in-chief
Marketing Week and the Festival of Marketing
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GUESTS
Inés Ures
Chief marketing officer
Deliveroo
Ian Edwards
Planning director
Facebook
A general management and marketing expert with a data and scientific background, Inés says she is helping to build "the definitive food company". She specialises in data-driven growth, global customer and marketing strategy, and team leadership in fast growing international marketplaces, having worked across Europe, South and Central America, APAC and the Middle East.
She was previously chief customer officer and CMO at Treatwell, Europe’s number one marketplace for hair and beauty appointments. She has a Masters in both mathematics and industrial engineering, as well as an MBA from IESE Business School.
Ian is the planning director at Facebook for Northern Europe. He joined Facebook in 2015 to set up the Connection Planning team. Prior to this, Ian spent 14 years working in planning and strategy at some of the biggest agencies in London.
Ian was a contributing author to 'What is a 21st Century Brand? New thinking from the next generation of agency leaders'. He also writes regularly for WARC, MediaTel and Admap, and is the vice-chair of the Media Trust.
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