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Marketing Effectiveness for brand builders

In today’s complex and competitive environment, marketing plays a vital role in building strong brands that drive long-term business growth. A brand is more than just a logo or campaign. It’s a mental anchor, an emotional connection, and a strategic asset.

While performance marketing delivers quick results and real-time metrics, an overemphasis on short-term gains risks overlooking what truly matters: the ability to make a lasting impact. And that ability lies in the strength of the brand.

To succeed, marketeers must develop a culture of effectiveness prioritising meaningful KPIs that demonstrate effectiveness through measurable outcomes, ensuring lasting value and relevance in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Measuring What Matters

“What gets measured gets done.” This familiar phrase holds particularly true in the world of marketing. But with hundreds of key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure marketing activities, the central question is: how can we measure the real impact of marketing and communication?

UBA’s KPI framework for brandbuilders offers a standardised approach to understand and demonstrate the impact of marketing, especially marketing communication. It aims to establish a common standard with meaningful KPIs for measuring and reporting the effects of marketing communication. The goal: to provide clarity on how communication influences brand and business.

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Master Classes on Effectiveness

To promote stronger marketing effectiveness, the UBA has launched new master classes as part of its Academy programme. These classes focus on three key pillars: Business Strategy (linking marketing to business outcomes), Brand Strategy (ensuring long-term brand health through trust, awareness, and differentiation), and Communication Strategy (evaluating the quality and impact of communication plans).

Accompanied by a practical guide, this structured approach equips marketers to measure and enhance the long-term impact of their marketing and communication efforts.

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Marketing Effectiveness is part of UBA Focus

Marketing effectiveness is part of UBA Focus: our framework for everything that matters today and shapes tomorrow’s marketing landscape. The world is changing fast, and as a brand builder, you can’t stand still.
UBA Focus helps you zoom in on what truly matters.

Knowledge and Insights

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    November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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    At the UBA Media Date on 26 August, Andrew Tindall (System1) shared his insights on why medi...
    November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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  3. Why marketers need both guts and patience

    During the UBA Media Date on 26 August, Magda Nenycz-Thiel from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute...
    October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Trainings

  1. Media strategy evaluation

    How do I best evaluate an annual media strategy?

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  2. Media & creativity

    What are the key ingredients of effective communication?

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  3. Total Video Advertising

    How can you master the video ecosystem to better optimise campaigns?

    Offline French Dutch
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Our Marketing Effectiveness expert is Luc

Luc Eeckhout, media expert, joined UBA in January 2024, bringing with him extensive expertise in media strategy and research. Throughout his career, Luc has focused on media analysis and data-driven strategies. He has previously held several leadership positions in the media industry and has been deeply involved in audience measurement, working closely with CIM (Centre for Information on the Media).

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