Creating happy tension: The power of CFO-CMO partnerships

Raja Rajamannar, chief marketing & communications officer and president - healthcare business, Mastercard and Sachin Mehra, chief financial officer, Mastercard. (Image sourced from Forbes and LinkedIn)

The disconnect between CFOs and CMOs is partially a result of how we communicate, but also what we communicate. For too long, marketers and finance people have talked past each other, each communicating what they want without truly listening.

Simply Speaking: The T20-fication of content; TikTok and the fame to flame story

TikTok’s rise is meteoric. Yes, it’s creating a new generation of celebrities – many of whom are younger than the YouTubers who came before them. But the rise of TikTok has wider ramifications, arising from the fact that it was made by, and is still owned by, a Chinese company. (Representational image by Alice Donovan Rouse via Unsplash)

The idea of bringing advertising closer to entertainment and pop culture was always a theoretical no brainer but never a practical choice of the mainstream players.