Month: April 2021
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Google Firestarters Episode 7: Jerry Daykin
I was delighted when Jerry Daykin, EMEA Senior Media Director at GSK, agreed to be a guest on the latest episode of Google Firestarters as I think he's unusually astute and perceptive when it comes to the future of media and advertising, and has a sensible outlook around some of the bigger issues currently swirling…
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Post of the Month – March 2021 – The Winner
Well, there was some strong voting for Dave Dye's series of posts on the women that built DDB, but in the end it was Martin Weigel's excellent post The Lives of Others.To Find A Way In, We Must Find The Way Out Of Our Own which won the vote. Well done to Martin who has…
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Post of the Month – March 2021 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (note – there's a nomination here for Dave Dye's 'Women Who Built DDB' series of posts so I've included links to each of the four posts so far). So our vote this month is between: I'm losing my mind, let's talk about it: what I've learned about living through menopause by Melissa…
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Murray
I was so upset to learn today that Murray Calder had passed. I met Murray a few times – a couple when he came along to Google Firestarters events, and then again when he invited me to speak at a Mediacom Edinburgh event that he was putting on in his role as CSO there. Recently…
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Post of the Month – March 2021 – Nominations
It's time again to open nominations for Post of the Month. So if there are any posts that you've read over the past month that you thought stood out, do nominate them by sending me the link direct or leaving it in the comments below. As always I have a short starting list below but…