Marketing Factories

We open the doors to how great marketing actually gets made.

Effie Europe and REBORRN take you inside the world's most effective marketing teams: the unfiltered moments where ideas take shape, the ways of working that make them possible, and the people who carry them through.

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Our Latest Episode

Episode 06WFA × EACA Special

The €1 Billion Problem Nobody Talks About

In our latest episode we sit down with Stephan Loerke, CEO of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and Charley Stoney, CEO of the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) and President of VoxComm, to unpack why the agency payment model is breaking and what AI, pitching waste and creativity mean for marketing effectiveness.

Inside the Most Effective Marketing Factories

How adidas Went From Loss-Making to the World Cup
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Episode 05Inside the adidas Marketing Factory

How adidas Went From Loss-Making to the World Cup

In this episode we sit down with Roy Gardner, VP of Brand Activation for Europe at adidas, to break down the brand marketing turnaround that took adidas from loss-making in 2023 to owning the World Cup, and the “brilliance at speed” operating model behind it.

Effie Special: Turning Litter Into Loyalty
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Episode 04Inside the McDonald's Nordics Marketing Factory

Effie Special: Turning Litter Into Loyalty

For this Effie special we're joined by Staffan Ekstam, Nordic Marketing & Brand Strategy Director at McDonald's Sverige, and Petter Dixelius, Creative Director and Partner at NORD DDB Stockholm, to explore the twenty-year client-agency partnership behind one of 2025's most awarded campaigns.

How Heineken Became the World's Most Creative Brand
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Episode 03Inside the HEINEKEN Company Marketing Factory

How Heineken Became the World's Most Creative Brand

In this episode we talk with Rob van Griensven, Global Digital Director at The HEINEKEN Company, about the “Art, Science, Courage” creative formula and the digital marketing model that made a 150-year-old beer brand one of the world's most creative.

The 2-Year Process That Revived an $18 Billion Icon
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Episode 02Inside the Fanta Marketing Factory

The 2-Year Process That Revived an $18 Billion Icon

In this episode we're joined by Ibrahim Khan, Global Marketing VP for Fanta at The Coca-Cola Company, to unpack the two-year global rebrand that stripped an $18 billion, 190-country icon back to two words and moved 70% of its media investment away from TV.

How Sound Became Magnum's Most Valuable DBA
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Episode 01Inside the Magnum Ice Cream Company marketing factory

How Sound Became Magnum's Most Valuable DBA

In our first episode we sit down with Tobias Sparnaaij, Global Marketing Lead for the Masterbrand & Sticks portfolio at Magnum, and Bruno Yanagui Gomiero, Global Planning Director at Lola MullenLowe, to explore how sound became Magnum's most valuable distinctive brand asset and the neuroscience of the “drool factor.”

Brands we've sat down with.

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Portrait of Dafni Prosalika
Meet the host

Dafni Prosalika

Partner, REBORRN

“Endlessly curious about what drives people's choices.”

At 26, Dafni hung a sign on the door of her first marcomms company that read “Sigmund.” A psychologist and criminologist by training, she was betting that a deep curiosity about what drives people's choices would be her edge. It was.

That curiosity never switched off. It's taken her inside some of the world's biggest companies, helping them crack how modern marketing actually works, not from the outside, but from within the machine.

Now she hosts Marketing Factories for the most honest reason there is: to keep having the conversations she can't get enough of. The good, the bad and the downright ugly of marketing effectiveness, with people far smarter than her.

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