Media Week

I’ve had a week to digest the talking points of our Zeitgeist conference, where royals, bankers, business leaders, journalists and even an Amazonian tribal chief came together to discuss issues of the day. But one issue in particular stuck in my mind...

As you may have read in a previous post, our house is currently a building site and we’re living in temporary accommodation. Although the flat is nice enough, the family and I are all starting to miss our creature comforts: my wife and I the garden and...

I’ve recently come back from a couple of days in the north, where I had breakfast, lunch and dinner with most of our agency partners in that part of the world. As ever, leaving the London smog and arriving in Manchester, I get a real buzz from the sense...

Albeit we’re in a major media recession it was interesting to see this week’s IAB numbers showing continued growth for digital. Online ad spend in 2008 rose 17.1% to £3.3bn, and online spend now makes up over 19% of the overall market in the UK. The UK...

Apologies for not blogging over the last couple of weeks, but we’ve got builders tearing my house apart - and finding a temporary home for the family has been taking up a lot of time (outside of work of course)! I’m writing this from my 'Travel Tavern...

During “Snow Day” as I was building a terrific snowman with my kids (if I say so myself), I got thinking about the behaviour of all those like me that were stranded for the day (and just how good my snowman was - see right). It also got me thinking about...

This week I was at an industry event chatting with a couple of old mates – one from a traditional media background who now works on the client side, and one from a media agency – about the use of data in our industry. While my agency friend, perhaps unsurprisingly...

Welcome to my inaugural blog. As I boxed up my Christmas decorations - shoving them back in the loft for another year - reintroduced myself to the gym, gave up drinking for January and failed to make the High Street sales, there seemed nothing left of...