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How TikTok is helping marketers unlock the business potential of culture

TikTok’s Shant Oknayan on why brands need to tap into culture, and the critical role of the platform in helping marketers navigate this journey.

Shant Oknayan, vice president, global business solutions, TikTok

Most career marketers would have heard some version of the line “culture eats strategy for breakfast” at least once, if not several times. But what if culture is the strategy when seeking business growth? Shant Oknayan, vice president, global business solutions, TikTok put this question to the audience at the recently concluded Cannes Lions Festival. He added, “Often considered a soft power, culture can punch above its weight and become incredibly effective.”
Why culture should become strategy  
Oknayan had several examples of the benefits of tapping into the well


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.