We need to talk about marketing: The Annual 2016 is out now

By AdNews | 9 December 2016
 
Adam Ballesty on the front cover of The Annual

Our final print issue of 2016 is The Annual. As usual, it's a shiny, glossy end to the year. This issue features the AdNews Photo Essay – a collection of insights and thoughts from 12 of Australia’s top marketers from brands including ANZ Bank, Diageo, Fox Sport and Luxottica. We also feature startups including Pandora, Deliveroo and Mojo Power.

The topics chosen by marketers signal the themes that are going to be big in 2017. These include a swing back to gut instinct and the art of marketing, a backlash against digital and data, a welcoming of big ideas, the power of the Facebook algorithm, marketing qualifications and more.

We also invited creative agencies to take part in Mock Briefs again – rather frighteningly, we predicted the Trump election asking agencies to “sell the American Dream in a Post-Trump world – weeks before the election. (We don't take any blame for the eventual outcome, however.)

mock brief the cross core

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The other brief tackled Sydney's Lockout Laws - either promoting them or running against them, and finally we asked creatives to solve the issue of co-living spaces that are cropping up for adults who are priced out of the housing market. Are giant dorm rooms for millennials the answer? Check out Mock Briefs and see.

We give a run down of the big events of 2016 with our year in review and the Top Tens pick out the ads that we think won the year.

Copies should be landing on desks as we speak – but you can download a digital version of The Annual here.

This is the full list of talent included in the issue:

Photo Essay:

  • Adam Ballesty (on the cover) – Diageo Marketing and innovation director
  • Chris Gross – Fox Sports head of marketing, brand and social
  • Troy Taylor – Lego head of marketing
  • Libby Hodgson – Taronga Zoo director of marketing, commercial and fund-raising
  • Melina Cruickshank – Domain Chief editorial and marketing officer
  • Jee Moon – Luxottica VP of marketing
  • Alessandro Manunta – Heineken international portfolio development manager
  • Anna Reid – Sydney Opera House CMO
  • Jenny Williams – HCF CMO
  • Louise Eyres – ANZ Bank Group GM of Marketing
  • Mark Khademi – Mojo Power CMO
  • Sally Keirnan – Pandora Group marketing director
  • Levi Aron – Deliveroo country manager
  • Nicole McInnes – eHarmony marketing director

The agencies that took the time out to play around with Mock Briefs and come up with some spec work are:

  • Cummins&partners
  • The Royals 
  • 1 Kent Street
  • DT
  • The White Agency
  • DDB
  • The Works
  • 303MullenLowe
  • GPY&R
  • Isobar
  • M&C Saatchi
  • Havas Worldwide
  • Red Engine
  • The Core Agency
  • One Green Bean
  • Wunderman
  • Ikon
  • Grey Australia
  • MediaCom
  • Ogilvy Brisbane
  • Soap

You can purchase a digital version of The Annual here, or subscribe so you don't miss out on anything in print in 2017. None of the content from our print editions is available online. So if you don't subscribe – you're missing out.

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