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Dentsu reveals insights on B2B buyers with fourth annual Superpowers Index
Mumbai: Dentsu, an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations, has published the largest study of B2B buying behaviour globally for the fourth consecutive year. The Superpowers Index includes over 14,000 individual buyer interviews and covers over 25,000 in-depth buying experiences. The research provides a diagnostic platform that addresses the real drivers behind B2B buying decisions, where to improve the B2B buyer journey and the business impact of the experience.
The publication of this research coincides with the global expansion of dentsu’s B2B Specialised Practice. Dentsu B2B is designed to connect modern businesses, driving growth through integrated B2B solutions that bridge the gap between marketing, IT, and sales, helping brands achieve unprecedented levels of performance. The specialised practice is an evolution of the successful Merkle B2B offering. Already one of the largest and fastest-growing B2B practices, it is expanding to include additional capabilities across dentsu’s agency brands and geographies, ensuring global consistency and local relevance.
In Asia Pacific, Kiaran Geen continues to lead dentsu B2B, driving innovative solutions and growth across the region. His leadership is instrumental in building upon dentsu’s B2B capabilities and delivering impactful results for our clients.
The Superpowers Index, originally published in 2021, uses a single metric that captures the overall brand experience and provides a comprehensive, single index to help brands assess their performance against key criteria that drive success. This index offers invaluable insights, enabling businesses to fine-tune their strategies and achieve superior outcomes.
● Brand building has jumped from the fifth priority in 2023 to the number one priority in 2024
● The number of brands considered as part of B2B buying journeys is up 62% since 2021
● Average decision time has increased 54 days since 2021. The estimated value to the world economy of these delayed B2B opportunities is approximately $1.9tn
● Only around two in five businesses were highly satisfied with the brand they chose in tailoring their offering to fit their needs, and these scores have shown no sign of improving since 2022
● A 10-point increase in the proprietary Superpowers Index Score results in a 14% average uplift in the dollar value of each opportunity
In addition to the Superpowers Index, dentsu B2B has launched speciality capabilities aimed at transforming B2B marketing and sales strategies, via the dentsu B2B growth engine:
Marketing For Growth — This growth framework leverages both technology enablement and marketing services to accelerate business expansion. By integrating advanced technology with strategic marketing efforts, businesses can achieve scalable growth and enhanced market presence.
Intelligent ABX — By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Intelligent ABX revolutionizes account-based management initiatives. This solution empowers clients to transform their approach, ensuring more effective targeting and engagement with key accounts, ultimately driving better business results.
Brand-to-Demand Advertising — Focusing on a full view of the customer, this solution seamlessly integrates brand and demand generation efforts to enhance B2B performance. By aligning these critical elements, businesses can create a cohesive strategy that maximizes brand impact and drives demand, resulting in sustained growth and success.
Sales Enablement — Designed to propel B2B leaders into the future, Sales Enablement focuses on driving commerce and enhancing customer experience. This solution helps businesses improve revenue by optimizing their sales processes and delivering exceptional customer journeys.
“Five years ago, Merkle B2B was launched to provide integrated solutions to B2B customers across media, customer experience and creativity. Today’s expansion into dentsu B2B marks a real opportunity for the team to drive further innovation for our clients, creating real business outcomes for our clients that help their growth and generate real impact,” said Kiaran Geen, President APAC, dentsu B2B.
“Every company in the world is a B2B company in some capacity and we can harness that opportunity to be a true innovation partner for clients, leveraging our globally connected capabilities across business transformation, media, creative, CXM, commerce, data and technology to drive impact,” he added.
“The Superpowers Index provides a framework for driving client growth by benchmarking performance across the 30 decision drivers, pinpointing improvement opportunities and measurement and gives a comprehensive look at the evolving landscape of B2B marketing year over year. The research allows us to target and refine our dentsu B2B capabilities to the needs of global clients across markets,” said dentsu B2B president Patrick Hounsell. “Our goal is to provide B2B brands with the tools and insights they need to connect their marketing, IT, and sales efforts more effectively and these solutions represent a significant leap forward in our commitment to driving B2B success.”
Here is the link to the report
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Publicis Brazil’s creative chief Mauro Ramalho lands the jury chair at Abby Awards 2026
Mauro Ramalho brings 25 years of global advertising firepower to the new creative commerce, use of data and B2B category at Goafest
GOA: The Abby Awards 2026, powered by The One Club and The One Show, has appointed Mauro Ramalho, chief creative officer of Publicis Brazil, as jury chair for its newly launched creative commerce, use of data and B2B category. The announcement, made on 18 March, signals the awards’ intent to bring serious international muscle to a category that sits squarely at the intersection of creativity and commercial performance.
Ramalho is not a name that needs much introduction in global advertising circles. Over 25 years spanning three countries, he has worked at some of the industry’s most creatively restless addresses. At AKQA in San Francisco, he worked across McDonald’s, Nike, Fox, Target, Kraft Foods and GAP, and helped lead “The Lost Ring” for McDonald’s, one of the first alternate reality campaigns and among the most awarded projects of its era. He later moved to Organic in Toronto, bridging the Detroit and Toronto offices on Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler, before spending over a decade building CUBOCC into one of Brazil’s most iconic and innovative independent agencies, which subsequently joined the IPG network.
A stint at FCB followed, where Ramalho led integrated work bridging online and offline, before he joined R/GA São Paulo as vice-president and executive creative director, stitching together the São Paulo office with New York, London, Portland and California on global clients including Verizon, Google, Meta, Samsung, American Express and Heineken. He now heads Publicis Brazil as its chief creative officer.
His trophy cabinet includes Clios, Effies, TikTok awards and MMA Smarties, and he has served on juries at the Andys, TikTok and the Lisbon Awards.
The Abby Awards 2026 is scheduled to take place at Goafest 2026 on 20, 21 and 22 May in Goa.
For Indian advertising, landing a jury chair of Ramalho’s calibre for a category built around data-driven creativity and commerce is a statement of ambition. Goafest just raised its own bar.
