Does brand marketing drive long-term growth, and can we prove it?
When budgets tighten, brand marketing is often cut first, because its value is hard to prove to a CFO. In our Brand as Performance studies with Ally Financial, TransUnion, and Campbell’s, we measure what brand is worth, short and long term. MMA’s Great Debates and our research dig into why brand is hard to defend, and how to defend it.
- 34 sessions
- 46 reports
- 2 Future Labs
- Globee® 2026 Silver Winner
Data-Driven Marketing & Insights - ESOMAR 2025 Gold Winner
Best Data-Driven Marketing Strategy - +2 awards
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How We Spend & What We Say: The State of Advertising Spend
MMA and MediaRadar analyzed five years of advertising across 10 industries and 6 channels. The biggest differences are between categories, not channels or years.
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Vassilis BakopoulosMarketing + Media Alliance
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Jay NielsenMediaRadar
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Marc GuldimannAdelaide
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Dena WeatherheadWorkday
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Joel RubinsonRubinson Partners, Inc.
The State of Brand Marketing Accountability
The State of Performance Marketing
Why Isn’t Marketing on the Balance Sheet (and Why Doesn’t the CFO Trust You)?
Defending Brand Marketing – Why Is It So Hard?
Good Growth: How Brands Win with Social Impact
Video & CTV in 2025: Unlocking an Emerging Strategic Powerhouse
Unlocking Brand Growth: New Insights from the Fusion of Attitudes and Behaviors
Breakthroughs in Audience Strategy: Debunking the Short and Long-Term Myth of Marketing
Brandnomics: The Science Behind Brand-Driven Financial Growth
Measuring Brand Value
Movable Middles Growth Framework®: Using Moneyball to Drive Marketing Growth
Brand as Performance (BaP): Marketing's Ongoing Debate
Member-only accessBrand as Performance (BaP): How a Bank Reinvigorated its Branding
Member-only accessRead
How We Spend & What We Say
Customer Lifetime Value Prospecting
How Marketers Make Decisions: The State of Marketing Analytics
MMA Modern Marketing Reckoner 2025-2026 Industry Report Indonesia
Brand as Performance: Proving Brand Marketing Drives Long-Term Growth
MMA Indonesia Modern Marketing Reckoner 2024 Report
The State of Creative Process in Marketing
MMA Indonesia Brand Safety & MarTech Report 2024
Aligning Engagement Metrics in Advertising
MMA Indonesia Modern Marketing Reckoner Report 2023
MMA Indonesia Brand Safety & MarTech Report 2023
The Connected Consumer Q4 2022
CDO Perspectives 2022
The Evolving Role of the Chief Digital Officer
State of CDO Benchmark Survey
The State of The Industry 2022: Modern Marketing in Indonesia
MMA Indonesia Brand Safety & MarTech Report 2022
Movable Middles Growth Framework™ (MMGF™): Marketer Implementation Playbook
Summary Session - The Great Debate Slides
The Great Debates: Marketing Growth Framework Strategic Summary Session
Dr. Leslie Wood - The Great Debate Full Transcript
Outcomes-Based Marketing 2.0 (OBM2): MATT Member Session
Dr. Leslie Wood - The Great Debate Slides
Joel Rubinson - The Great Debate Slides
Dr. Dominique Hanssens - The Great Debate Full Transcript
Dr. Dominique Hanssens - The Great Debate Slides
Dr. Peter Fader - The Great Debate Full Transcript
Dr. Peter Fader - The Great Debate Slides
MMA MATT Future of MTA Data Identifiers Fireside Chat
Infographic: The State of Data in Marketing
The Persuadables: How Advertisers Can Use the Principles of Recency and Spend Level to Significantly Improve ROAS
Deck: Mobile ads are processed in the blink of an eye - do you have your First Second Strategy?
A Master Class on Cost Per Visit from GroundTruth and the MMA
South African Retail Media Landscape: 2026 Ecoscape Report
MMA Retail Media Measurement & Market Definitions Guide (The MMA South Africa Retail Media A–Z)
The Modern Gaming Marketing Playbook
The State of AI in Marketing - SEA Report 2026
Peak Season Playbook: Strategic Growth Guide in Retail Media (ENG)
Peak Season Playbook
Veri Olgunluğu Raporu 25 | Türkiye
Retail Media Measurement Made Easy: A Guide
E-commerce: Strategic Insights into Vietnamese Shopper and Travel Behaviors in 2024
State of AI in Marketing in Germany 2025
State of AI in marketing: AI Trends & Actionable Insight
State of AI in Marketing in Vietnam 2024
MarTech Vietnam Report 2022
Behind the work
- Gold Winner · North America · The ESOMAR Awards 2025 Best Data-Driven Marketing Strategy
- Silver Winner · Globee® Pioneers Awards 2026 Data-Driven Marketing & Insights
- Silver Winner · i-COM Data Creativity Award 2024 General Marketing Sciences — 2nd Place
- Winner · ANA Genius Awards 2023 Genius Award — Marketing Analytics Growth
Movable Middles Growth Framework™
Research Challenging Conventional Marketing Growth Frameworks by Proving Targeting in the Digital Age Matters Most
- Silver Winner · Globee® Pioneers Awards 2026 Data-Driven Marketing & Insights
































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