The Media Leader Podcast | The Future of Planning, Strategy and Innovation Week in Focus
This week on The Media Leader, we’ll take a deep dive into the future of media planning and strategy.
So, what better way to start than with unpacking a new planning paradigm?
This summer, independent media agency Craft Media London launched a planning “Cookbook”. Titled Anti-Ultra-Processed Planning, the book argues that “planning has become fast food; mass-produced, pre-packaged and dangerously addictive”.
Agencies, it continues, are increasingly outsourcing strategic thinking to automated platforms, producing similar plans and dull work.
It is time, the book reads, to stop microwaving briefs and start cooking again.
Sally Weavers and Jen Jones are co-founders of Craft Media London and co-authors of Anti-Ultra-Processed Planning. They joined host Jack Benjamin to discuss its arguments and takeaways, and why they believe good planning has become harder and harder to come by.
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Highlights
7:05: What is anti-ultra-processed planning?
11:34: How to incentivise better planning practices
18:20: People not audiences
23:14: Notice over reach: the importance of attention
29:37: How brands can ‘get out of the middle lane’ and become more distinctive
40:29: Planning through culture, not channels
46:15: Measuring what matters and moving beyond social media
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