After spending a couple of days digesting this news I'm still not entirely sure what I think about it so excuse the brain dump. I do think it fits into the viral subject however as Ideas Bounty is surely a viral exercise in itself but can this really work as a sustainable model across a brand's...
Many of us in agencies, record labels, music publishers and music consultancies are looking to answer this question. There are many issues to consider, most of which concern how one interest group is changing its relationship with another: * Brand & agency relationships * Music talent & music...
- Most clients have a web agency, an online media agency, an online advertising agency... Some have an email delivery platform, or an email marketing agency, SEO and PPC specialists. And then the advertising agency or the sales promotion agency do tactical stuff (virals and vouchers, gobbling money to...
Methinks all this talk of cancelled parties and an empty Croisette may turn out to be a case of agencies which doth protest too much. In a year of mass redundancies, most have been keen to show that they are acting with sobriety and cutting back on the expense of jetting a whole load of people out to...
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 – sustainability.
Sustainability was certainly...
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 the Sky Plus HD box, the kids their trampoline....
Today the London Business School reports marketers 'must focus on consumers looking for bargains in a new era of austerity'. For agencies, austerity is truly biting hard. Waves of redundancies have generated a miserable atmosphere, and inevitably damaged morale. And lots of very good people gone...
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 of community you get when talking to media agencies...
