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Last month Bristol held its first ever Social Media Week. There were more than fifty events, and more than 1500 people attended or spoke...

It’s a good question, and with a year like 2016, rich pickings for the thoughtful strategist. It’s also the reason why we have chosen...

It's not just the long, gloomy Icelandic winters that make Detective Erlendur Sveinsson a rather moody figure. His life has had more than...

At the beginning of his talk last week, Mark Hancock, head of planning at The Real Adventure, noted the habit former Tesco CEO Terry...

Warning: Short Rant Follows: Is it just me or do more and more of our clients (and, sadly, some colleagues) think they can answer nutty...

Being a planner today is bewildering. Or at least, I am bewildered. Big picture wise, in line with client-agency relationships, the role...

Give yourself this one rule: you have one chance to get your idea across. If it works, you’re a hero, if you mistime it, it’ll get lost...

I see planning as a creative discipline, and I think creativity has a lot to do with synthesis. Don’t artists synthesise within culture...

Go beyond the laptop and beyond the office if you want to understand your client’s consumers. Watch people, observe what goes on around you.

My job is to make sure you see an advertisement you like! Whether when you're watching your favourite TV show, or before a movie, or even..

For our first Noisy Thinking of the Autumn we stepped outside the immediate confines of our world for a theme and for our speakers. A...

Adland is like a big adult playground, where you try and come up with a new and better game than the other guy, every day.

The age of personalisation of goods and services is just beginning, which is going to present significant challenges, as well as...

Earlier this week, I saw a Power Point chart that seemed to encapsulate my entire career in one sentence and a picture. I’ve changed the...

Recognise the importance of collaboration. Ideas can come from anywhere, being collaborative right at the beginning of the process...