On Strategy Showcase

With its "Real Food" message and its stand against industrial farming, Chipotle has built a brand that has withstood setbacks weaker brands wouldn't have survived. Its now built a database designed to give it faster, direct access to its customers, something it didn't have back when it was making not so great news. We talk with Jason Scoggins of Chipotle and Jason McCann of GALE, NY.

Midol is encouraging people with periods to question the normalization of discomfort. We're joined by Kelly Fanning of Bayer and Andrea Shultz of MullenLowe, NY. Be sure to watch the creative work on our website. 

Brandon Pracht and Tass Tsitsopoulos from W+K discuss McDonald's global 'As Featured In' campaign, including collaborations with Loki and Palace, the importance of collaboration in advertising, and the design of the campaign's packaging.

Mike Menkes, analytics expert specializing in marketing metrics, discusses the pitfalls of exposure and impact metrics, challenges of ROI metrics in marketing, the connection between radio ads and conversions, market mix modeling as a diagnostic and prescriptive method, and the risks of misleading metrics in business.

Canadian brand Kobo is using the popularity of guilty pleasure titles to carve out a unique space with women for its Kobo-plus e-reader subscription. We're joined by Lindsay Gray of Rakuten Kobo and Shari Walczak of The Garden, Toronto, Canada.

We hear the stories behind Emoji Ordering, Zero Click Ordering, Carryout Tips and their collaboration with Stranger Things, Season 4. We're joined by CCO, Matt Talbot and Strategy Lead, Alex Guerri, both of WorkInProgress, Boulder, Colorado.

The instinct when trying to justify a price increase is to lean on rational factors: quality, value, distinct features. Tyyrells suggests the opposite. It demonstrates how a characterful brand backed by sufficient marketing spend can achieve the same goal, but profitably. I'm joined by Dan Hulse, CSO at St. Lukes, London.

Ogilvy London's powerful "Have a Word" campaign, short listed for an APG Award this year, peels back the male psyche to map out a new territory in violence prevention. We're joined by Behavioral Strategist, Tara Austin and Planning Director, Bianca Novaes.

Getting to useful, inspiring answers is their promise, but how they get there is up to them alone. We get beyond the superficial with Nonfiction's Lindsey Wehking and Gunny Scarfo.

After years of successful anti-smoking campaigns, vaping emerged at the next threat to young Americans. We're joined by RG Logan, SVP Brand Marketing at Truth and Ryan McDaid, Head of Strategy at Mojo Supermarket in Brooklyn.