Octopus Energy’s widely reported £3bn deal will catapult the energy business from a start-up into one of Europe’s biggest renewable energy investors and fastest growing energy suppliers. Octopus is now targeting 50 million customers in the UK by 2027 and has plans to increase its new renewables division to generate as much clean electricity as […]
Rob Blake, UK MD at Channel Factory
2020 was a year of reckoning for many reasons, including an incredible focus on hearing all voices and ensuring that we live in a more equal world. Recent years have seen a tremendous, and apt focus on diversity and inclusion, and it’s a topic well-versed in adland. However, research by ISBA suggested that 68% of […]
By Anne Thistleton, partnering with creative and strategic healthcare agency, Create Health
Discovering the mind Not far from Edison’s first light bulb and the Wright Brothers’ first airplane in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC rests the Indomitable, the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner ever built. It is a crude but shiny, 1½ ton corset-like contraption with an antenna coil surrounding a movable platform. It was built by […]
BY SIOBHAN FREEGARD OBE, founder of ChannelMumTalent.com
WE DO better in exam results, more of us enrol in higher education – but when it comes to starting our own firms or being the boss, women are still not reaching their full potential. Statistics show women make up just 18% of FTSE 250 executive committee members, and while the number of female entrepreneurs […]
By Louise Findlay-Wilson, Founder and Managing Director at Energy PR
What determines whether a brand is great or loveable and does it matter? These were the questions which drove our Brand Love, research, and to complete it we interviewed over 100 leading marketers. What we found is that there’s a clear link between a brand’s lovability and the loyalty it enjoys. Furthermore, communications have a practical role […]
As governments across Europe announce their post-lockdown plans, people are slowly starting to dream of a sunnier life. This hazy optimism may well keep us going through isolation but how might we prepare for what’s coming. For every CEO who is banking on a potential economic boom, there is an economist with a grim outlook. […]
User experience expert highlights three types of business experiments to create growth opportunities in 2021.
Finding ‘hidden’ revenues is something all businesses could do with this year. And one way to achieve this can be through growth experimentation. So why is 2021 the year to become an ‘Experiment Business’? Jess Sherratt, Head of User Experience at Digital Product studio Code Computerlove, explains: “In times of great change – experimenting within an ever-altering consumer […]
BY Pete Hayes, Managing Partner at PB Creative
Distinctiveness has been proven, time and time again, to be more important than differentiation when it comes to marketing priorities. Distinctiveness is about being individual, recognisable and valued above and beyond the competition. It’s about creating ownable codes that instantly signal the brand and evoke a myriad of associated benefits and values. We believe it’s the key to […]
One of the UK’s leading young tech entrepreneurs is speaking out to warn organisations operating across multiple sectors that the post-COVID business world may look quite different than it did before. James Henry Blake, Founder and CEO of digital performance agency Vindicta Digital, has witnessed firsthand the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on […]
In a new industry survey 89.7% of client businesses said that the most significant thing they are changing in 2021 is ‘ways of working’, with more than a third of those questioned planning to change something as fundamental as a business model. A major trend in line with this wave of organisational change is a […]