I’m a firm believer that the Direct to Consumer (DTC) business model is a game changer. Having the opportunity to partner with some of the world’s leading consumer and retail brands has given me a front seat to watch some of the fascinating interplay between the key players in today’s CPG sector battles. A battle […]
The industry equivalent of The Tony Award, The Purple Heart, and The Nobel Peace Prize stood menacingly before my eyes: The Cannes Lion. One can only imagine the copious amounts of creative blood, sweat and coffee sacrificed by Xanax-popping account execs and cannabis-inhaling creative directors yearning to lay claim to this rightfully earned booty. Yet, […]
Too many major brands are coming late to the party and/or delivering paper-thin token gestures in their ‘show’ of support for causes, says Sense’s Ciara Garratt. Have you noticed how every brand is trying to prove a point at the moment? How every product you pick up in the supermarket now boldly states its protein content? Or, […]
Content marketing remains healthy, vibrant and growing voraciously. The stats are staggering: in 2011, a study showed that 27 million pieces of content were shared every day, and today 3.2 billion images are shared daily. With this much content out there, how do you make content work for you and what’s the right kind of content […]
The world is a complicated place. Even more so if we are talking about media and all the diverse platforms that are cropping up around every corner. Just recently Instagram reached one billion monthly active users. One billion. Let that sink in. Just to put this into perspective, Facebook (as of Q1 2018) has two […]
My name is Sarah and I’m a Prime addict. Admit it: you are too. We’re all hooked on the sugar-rush thrill of one-click deliveries. And the cult of speed is about to get faster. With the upcoming launch of Air Prime, deliveries will land by drone just 30 minutes after you click. About time. I […]
It’s 10 April 2018 and a nervous Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, stands before the US Congress. It’s the turn of 84-year-old US senator and Republican high-tech task force chair Orrin Hatch to ask the questions. Facebook is at the centre of a scandal after it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a British data firm hired […]
Speaking as a disrupter myself, having set up a new type of global agency that was the first to be 100% transparent on production costs with no mark-ups, I can see both where the big boys went wrong and where the challengers got it right. Eight years ago, Martin Sorrell wrote a piece on LinkedIn […]
Brands and marketing execs are coming under fire for using animals in advertising, particularly fashionable flat-faced dogs like Pugs, Frenchies and English Bulldogs. Heinz, Costa, Comic Relief, HSBC and most recently Three UK with their Snapchat ‘Puggerfly’ have attracted criticism for using these breeds in their ad campaigns. Many claim they’re adding to the […]
As marketers we draw inspiration from the world around us – whether it’s a place, object or person. This guidance from others is important for us to learn, improve and succeed in the workplace, but what is often overlooked is the role our mental health and wellbeing plays in our career development. A recent survey […]