Sixth Sense
It is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme is loneliness…
It’s International Women’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than to recognise the massive strides that women have made within the Advertising and Digital Industry…
Is Press dead? When asked that, my response is usually ‘try getting into the Daily Mail classified section this Saturday!’…
Noticing that over-the-counter pain killers were appearing on TV with increasing frequency in late December didn’t seem unusual – but it had me wondering…
Have you ever had that feeling commonly referred to as ‘Déjà vu’…
Although there is little hard evidence that Lord Leverhulme ever said it at all; that famous 100-year-old adage saying “half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half”…
If you represent one of the many brands who have been considering advertising on TV, then the next 5 minutes of your time may be well spent…
With the media pitch process now seemingly swamped in administration and bureaucracy, shouldn’t we be encouraging clients to hold back the spreadsheets and focus more on the very innovation and ideas that they are hoping to unearth from an agency in the first place?
With what feels like the constant merging and consolidation of everything within the media industry, talk always seems centered on the efficiencies but never the consequences…
With Valentine’s Day recently behind us and social distancing having become the norm, it occurred to me that the agency selection process increasingly resembles online dating…
Brand Safety metrics are essential in determining the success of a digital campaign. The online environment should be carefully considered…
Not knowing what life is going to throw at us next, we understand the temptation to regress to tried and tested marketing plans…
It’s Christmas! A wonderful time of year, full of hope, love, joy and tradition.
But what is tradition? Something that gives us belonging and stability, that bonds our memories and enables us to transcend through generations OR is it a barrier to free thinking, new attitudes, creativity and change?
As a kid, I was always puzzled by my Grandmother’s weekly shopping preferences. They involved her travelling 12 stops on a bus in one direction to buy her bread and 5 stops in the other direction to buy her meat…
We’ve all been there, we’ve splashed out on a rocket for Bonfire Night, told the kids, informed the neighbours, locked the dog away only to deliver a small frazzle instead of a mighty bang…
Ever feel like you’re drowning in a pool of data? As Carly Fiorina, ex chair of Hewlett Packard Co, said “The goal is to turn data into information and information into insight.” But what is an insight?…