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....
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...
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 is still leading the world in terms of digital advertising...
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,' where we’re currently living Alan Partridge...