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Why Creative is ‘The Dark Horse’ of Business Growth

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Cory Hudson | Senior Vice President, Creative
Date
17 February 2025
Market
Global
Read time
2 Minutes 38 Seconds

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Modern marketing has become increasingly complex. Between platform demands, rising consumer expectations and tight budgets - marketing leaders are facing increased pressure to drive efficiency and increase effectiveness.

Brands need solutions that take marketing from a cost centre, to a profit centre, and creative can help deliver this shift— being one of the most underutilized levers, that has the potential to increase profitability by 12x

The creative growth gap

Creative represents a massive, untapped opportunity for sustainable growth. With 85% of creative ads underperforming, and 72% of consumers failing to differentiate brands, there is tangible space for creative to outperform.

However CMOs are all too familiar with the challenges impacting creative optimization. The struggle to balance speed and scale, the need for real-time personalization, a lack of measurement unification, the difficulty in proving ROI, and the consistent pressure of tightening budgets are preventing businesses from unlocking the full potential of creative.

It’s not just about making better ads, it’s about transforming creative from a source of frustration to a driver of sustainable growth. Enabling brands to outperform and drive business success.

Mastering creative effectiveness

Effective creative doesn’t just mean being faster and smarter, it’s about being measureable, scalable and outcome focused. A unified approach to creative, combining style, substance, beauty and brains to grow a business in meaningful ways.

Creativity is no longer just an artform—it’s also a science. It means integrating automation, AI-driven insights, and modular creative frameworks that allow for flexibility and scalability – without compromising brand identity. 

Imagine the potential you unlock for your business when blending creativity with AI? 

1: Sustainability & Efficiency in Creative Production

Combining proven human intuition with AI fueled efficiency, scale and performance, enables businesses to unlock new levels of engagement, reducing production inefficiencies by up to 75% while increasing creative impact.

2: Seamless omnichannel personalization

The era of one-size-fits-all creative is over. Modular, AI-enhanced creative systems allow brands to create once and scale everywhere—delivering content that adapts to consumer context, platform, and intent. By building cross channel integrations that align strategic vision with tactical execution – brands can ensure every action and asset serves the larger business goals.

Take a look at how modular personalization delivered a 46x increase in Engagement, and a 193% increase in Consultation Enquiries for L’Oréal. 

3: Creative Measurement & ROI Attribution

For years, creative impact has been difficult to quantify, however integrating AI within performance indexing tools, allows brands to connect creative effectiveness directly to marketing outcomes, ensuring every asset is optimized for growth.

4: Reliable Predictive Optimization

Generative AI is shifting from automation to augmentation, allowing brands to predict and optimize creative effectiveness in real-time. Measuring, and enhancing creative impact from the start, with data enrichment and performance insights guiding immediate adjustments. By tracking real-time creative impact on brand profitability, businesses can understand the drivers behind engagement, revenue contribution, growth potential and audience reach.

Unlock creative effectiveness

The future of creative is faster, smarter and braver. It’s performance-first, enterprise scalable, channel-native, measurable and predictable. And with the right mindset, partners and tools, brands can use strong creative to outgrow their competition – and outperform.

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