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Why Global Marketing Execution Needs More Than a Universal Playbook
I have spent years watching brands pour millions into campaigns that fall flat the moment they cross a border. The creative looks right, the media budget is generous, and the strategy made sense in a London boardroom. Yet the campaign lands with a thud in Sao Paulo, feels irrelevant in Tokyo, or outright offends in Berlin. The problem is rarely the strategy. It is the global marketing execution. That gap between a brilliant idea and how it actually shows up in markets around