MarketingTransformation
The 2026 Internationalists of the Year
The story of this year’s Internationalists is the evolution of marketing leadership itself. The most influential marketers today are not simply building brands. They are helping people navigate complexity, creating confidence in uncertain times, building communities around shared passions, humanizing technology, and finding new ways for organizations to create meaningful value. The 2026 Internationalists of […]
Marketing Is Moving Beyond the Message
IN PRACTICE | The Cases Shaping Marketing Now What five award-winning campaigns reveal about the future of marketing. At first glance, these examples seem unrelated. Different countries. Different categories. Different audiences. Different objectives. Yet together they reveal something important: Marketing is moving beyond the message. Across this year’s highest-scoring Internationalist Award winners, the most innovative […]
When Transformation Becomes the Default
If transformation is now the default, the question is simple: now what? It’s easy to assume that marketing’s current challenges stem from complexity. More channels.More data.More expectations. But that may not be the real shift. The deeper change is structural. The conditions marketing operates within keep shifting. From Phase to Condition For years, transformation was […]
Marketing Is No Longer the First Conversation — Say Acumion’s Founders
Sebastian Vedsted Jespersen and Kasper Ulf Nielsen contend that AI-mediated discovery is compressing differentiation into summary — and that brands must now encode proof to avoid flattening into parity. It is always wonderful to see our Internationalist Innovators do well. It is rarer to watch two of them quietly build something that may alter the […]
Defying Drift: Why Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach Say Leaders Must Hone, Not Transform
The authors of HONE explain how purposeful refinement—not constant reinvention—helps marketers sustain clarity, relevance, and organizational momentum amid exponential change. For years, business leaders—and marketers in particular—have been urged to disrupt, reinvent, and transform. But according to Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach, Principals at Deloitte and authors of HONE: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift, that […]
LondonAI and the New Advertising Equation
How Michael Moszynski Wants to Redefine Creativity, Value, and Human Intelligence in an AI-Driven Era … When LondonAI launched, it didn’t introduce itself with glossy promises of transformation, magical savings, or instant innovation. Instead, it opened with a campaign showing all the things AI simply can’t do. It was witty, slightly irreverent, and intentionally sobering. […]
Hershey’s Charlie Chappell Discusses Innovation and Anticipating What’s Next…
Many associate marketing with innovation, but it’s also about anticipating what’s next. If anyone can look around corners as a strategic and transformational leader focused on driving growth, it’s Charlie Chappell of The Hershey Company. Few people have held such a diverse range of marketing roles—from product development at Kimberly-Clark to brand management and marketing at […]
Is Marketing at an Inflection Point?
Are we now facing a time that dramatically changes marketing’s role in both business and society? According to The Internationalist‘s recent Insights Survey, 68% of respondents agreed that Yes– Marketing is at an Inflection Point. One savvy respondent offered a comment that sets the tone for many CMOs: “Yes, we are at an inflection point, but marketing has two directional shifts to […]
Branding Expert Allen Adamson Discusses the Key to Successful Businesses through “Seeing the How”…
Ask branding expert Allen Adamson, co-founder of Metaforce, his perspective on the most important shift in contemporary marketing, and he’ll tell you it’s the need to focus on the consumer’s experience, rather than stressing product differentiation. His new book, Seeing the How: Transforming what people do, not buy, to gain market advantage explores why today’s most successful businesses […]