The WARC Podcast

How brands can navigate 2025’s economic volatility

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Apr 22, 2025
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ANECDOTE

Turkey's Economic Instability Example

  • In Turkey, rapid economic changes forced people to live year-to-year financially rather than saving long-term.
  • This experience shows why unstable economies lead consumers to splurge now amid uncertainty.
ADVICE

Use Empathy and Creative Solutions

  • Marketers should create empathetic, creative solutions that reduce consumer risk, like product buyback guarantees.
  • Such approaches build goodwill with retailers and consumers during shocks like tariffs or currency crises.
INSIGHT

Mutualism vs. Tariff Protectionism

  • Mutualism, a cooperative mindset to grow the economic pie, contrasts with tariff-driven protectionism.
  • This can foster better marketer-consumer relationships through give and take in pricing and communication.
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