Mahrukh Shaikh, Head of Content, Symmetry Group

In One Sentence…

How do you define effective marketing?
Marketing that communicates the right message in the right way to the right people.

What is the best advice you can offer to today’s marketers?
Keep the people you’re selling the brand to at the heart of all your marketing efforts.

How does creativity drive effectiveness?
Creativity helps brands strike a relatable chord in a more human way that overly jargonized strategy can’t.

What is the biggest roadblock to marketing effectiveness?
Localization of global campaigns without relevant cultural context.

What do you hope marketing looks like in the next five years?
A true cultural representative of the world’s people, recognizing and celebrating them as a heterogenous collective without expecting them to look, feel and do the same.

Mahrukh was a 2023 Effie Pakistan judge. See more In One Sentence features.