Year: 2020
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Shipped in 2020
Every year I do a kind of year-end retrospective taking a step back and looking at what I've worked on in the year. I've been doing it for the past seven years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). And I do […]
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Google Firestarters Episode 3: Sue Unerman
I'm really happy to say that the third Google Firestarters video chat is now up. This one is with the brilliant Sue Unerman who was wonderfully erudite, funny and insightful. We talk about a wide range of subjects related to the industry […]
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Post of the Month – November 2020 – The Winner
Well there was a strong showing for Harriet Kindleysides' Questioning Things, and for Zoe Scaman's From Frameworks to Flywheels but in the end it was John Willshire's excellent talk on Zenko Mapping that just won this month's vote. So well done to […]
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Post of the Month – November 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Zenko Mapping – A Video Introduction by John Willshire From Frameworks to Flywheels by Zoe Scaman Long live the King: Burger King's advertising plays a different game by Faris Yakob Getting in and Getting […]
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Post of the Month – November 2020 – Nominations
It's time again for nominations for Post of the Month. So if there's a post which you've read over the past month that you thought was particularly good do nominate it by sending me the link or leaving it in the comments […]
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Google Firestarters Episode 2: Lindsay Pattison
I'm delighted to announce episode 2 in our series of Google Firestarters chats – this one with the brilliant Lindsay Pattison, Chief Client Officer, WPP. The conversation with Lindsay was pretty wide-ranging but she had some fascinating thoughts around how the old […]
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On Being Made Redundant
I have a confession to make. Almost eleven years ago I left the large media owner that I had worked for for 14 years. At the time I talked about it as though it was a proactive decision that I had made […]
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Post of the Month – October 2020 – The Winner
Well it was quite a close run vote this month between JP Castlin's post on how marketers should focus on cash flows and Amy Kean's piece on how social media is breaking us but in the end it was the latter that […]
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Google Firestarters Episode 1: Richard Huntington
Well, after something of a COVID-related hiatus I'm delighted to announce that Google Firestarters is returning as a brand new video interview series featuring some of the most insightful and interesting people in the advertising and media industry. Pre-COVID we'd done nine […]
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Post of the Month – October 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Social media is breaking us; why we need something radical to save ourselves by Amy Kean If you want a bigger marketing budget, focus on creating cash flows by JP Castlin The Soft […]