GlobalMarketing
The World Has Gone Pumpkin. Or Has It?
How an American autumn obsession is traveling the globe—and what it reveals about the marketing of seasons. National Pumpkin Day was earlier this week in the US. Halloween is just around the corner. Which got us wondering: Has the entire world gone pumpkin crazy? Or have marketers simply become extraordinarily good at turning autumn’s arrival […]
When Global Reach Is No Longer Enough
As multinational B2B marketers confront regionalization, AI and increasingly complex growth challenges, Tony Riley, President and CEO of MX, believes the future of agencies may depend less on their size than on their ability to solve the right problems. For decades, the promise of global marketing was built around scale. Multinational companies wanted consistency across […]
WHAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR RADAR NOW?
Events, dates, places to be—and a few global moments you might not expect. Bookmark this article. You may want it again. In case September disappeared while you weren’t looking… September has a way of doing that. New York managed to squeeze the US Open, Fashion Week, the UN General Assembly and Climate Week into a […]
When America’s 250th Birthday Party Goes Global
How the FIFA World Cup is helping America—and the world—rediscover one another. More than 13 million visitors are expected to travel across North America during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with international supporters accounting for roughly 40% of stadium attendance. Many will stay for two weeks or longer, visit multiple cities, and spend more than […]
The Missing Layer in Modern Marketing
Why Creative Infrastructure May Become Creative’s Next Competitive Advantage An Internationalist Conversation with Alexander Augustesen CEO & Co-Founder, Zuuvi Over the past several weeks, The Internationalist has explored an increasingly important question facing global brands. How do great ideas survive scale? We examined why global campaigns often lose coherence as they move across markets, agencies, […]
The Hidden Cost of Global Marketing
The Big Idea Is Only as Strong as the System That Delivers It. Global brands have never invested more in creating big ideas. Brand platforms are centralized. Creative systems are increasingly sophisticated. Campaigns are built to travel across markets, formats, platforms, and channels. Strategy is aligned. Guidelines are documented. Master assets are approved. And yet, […]
When Great Ideas Don’t Survive Scale
The most dangerous moment for a great marketing idea is not when it is created. It is when it is scaled. A global idea is approved. The strategy is clear. The creative platform is strong. The brand team is aligned. Then the idea enters execution. It is adapted, resized, translated, rebuilt, localized, versioned, reviewed, approved, […]
Valentine’s Day Signals: What Global Search Behavior Reveals About Modern Celebration
Valentine’s Day remains one of the world’s most recognized cultural moments — yet new global search patterns suggest the holiday is quietly evolving. Interest is declining overall, but curiosity about meaning, personalization, and inclusive celebration is rising. For marketers, this shift signals not a fading holiday, but a reframing of how people connect and express […]
Biogen’s Michel Quintas Discusses How to Execute a Global Digital Strategy
Michel Quintas has the rare title of Director for Global Digital Strategy and Execution at Biogen, the Cambridge, Massachusetts multinational biotech company specializing in the treatment of neurological diseases. Not only has he helped lead an enterprise-wide transformation of Biogen’s digital customer engagement, but he has been instrumental in advocating omni-channel programs and a Digital Center of Excellence, founded […]
Colin Westcott-Pitt Discusses Growing a Billion-Dollar Brand and the World’s #1 Sports Nutrition Product
Colin Westcott-Pitt has been a well-known drinks marketer for much of his career, and many will remember his acclaimed work for Dos Equis and its “Most Interesting Man in the World” initiative. For the past several years, however, he has turned his attention to the global development of the Glanbia Performance Nutrition Brand Portfolio, which includes […]