Category: media
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Post of the Month – February 2021 – Nominations
Plenty of good reads this month IMHO and so it's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. I've listed a few of my own favourites below as a starter but please do add to these with your own nominations – you can do that by sending me the link direct or leaving it…
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Google Firestarters Episode 4: Gareth Kay
Gareth Kay, co-founder at Chapter in San Francisco, in Google Firestarters Episode 4
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Post of the Month – December 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (and sorry again this is a little late). So our vote this month is between: Scaling up without screwing up by Tom Roach Scratching and Thieving by James Caig Let's ask a better question: why doesn't advertising work more often? by Jenni Romaniuk Scaling down by Anne-Laure Le Cunff 2020 in 20 Ideas, People,…
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Post of the Month – December 2020 – Nominations
I'm a little late with this (sorry) but it's time again to open nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a short start list which I've got below (I've had a couple of nominations already), but do put forward your suggestions for good posts that were posted over the past month and…
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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 delineation between agency types and roles is now less meaningful and about the…
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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 won through. So well done to Amy who is now a double winner…
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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 years of live Firestarters events (something like 90 events in total) over which…
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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 Power of Brands by Nigel Hollis 12 Career Lessons from Rishad Tobaccowala Reach Out…
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Post of the Month – September 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: The Normalisation of Overworking in Advertising by Craig Ainsley The Forecasting Fallacy by Alex Murrell To Win Short-form Video, Look Away from the Creator by Shreya Sudarshana The Beatles Theory of Creative Career Management by Rob Schwartz The Entertainment Value Curve by Ravi Mehta And you can vote…
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Post of the Month – September 2020 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. This vote is here to recognise great (non-professional) industry writing and blogging so if there's a post that you've read over the past which you particularly enjoyed do nominate it by sending me the link direct or leaving it in the comments below. As…