

BE BRAVE. GO LONG.
We're announcing the new Long-Term Thinking Award: A new category, for 2019 APG Creative Strategy Awards. As our world is increasingly...
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Feb 20, 20192 min read


APG Noisy Thinking | How do you plan?
We thought it would be bracing to start the new year with a fresh look at the basics so we began by asking 3 planners who’ve been doing...
APG
Jan 24, 20198 min read


Why YouTube Works should matter to planners
We set up YouTube Works 3 years ago as a YouTube specific effectiveness competition. It was in part a response to wildly inconsistent...
APG
Jan 24, 20192 min read


APG 'Eat Your Greens' Book Review by Alison Hoad
I would urge anyone who is interested in how to create demand for brands in the 21st Century to read this book...
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Dec 11, 20181 min read


APG Strategy Conference: On the Contrary Summary of the day by Bridget Angear, Joint CSO AMV BBDO
Bridget did the impossible and drew together her thoughts about a long and intense day, with some really useful things for us to think...
APG
Oct 10, 20183 min read


RIP Charlie Robertson (1954 – 2018)
RIP Charlie Robertson (1954 – 2018) APG Chair 1990-91 I learnt with great sadness and shock that one of planning’s greatest practitioners...
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Oct 5, 20183 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Katie Mackay-Sinclair
It seems somewhat oxymoronic to write a review of a book that cautions against passion; warns us to be wary of making people think...
APG
Sep 18, 20181 min read


Thinking Around Corners - How do you make people healthier?
At Firefish we like to help people think smartly to solve tricky problems and it doesn’t get much trickier than ‘How do you make people...
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Aug 1, 20183 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Amelia Torode
It's a book that you can dip in and out of, keep it to hand as when you hit a strategic roadblock there's going to be something inside that
APG
Jul 16, 20181 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Richard Shotton
The book is based on Binet and Carter’s Mythbuster column for AdMap and it covers a glorious breadth of marketing topics: from objective set
APG
Jul 11, 20182 min read


How Not to Use How Not to Plan - A Review by Malcolm White
My first planning boss always skewered the ill-thought out, or the just plain wrong, with a piercing ‘bollocks’ or a ‘bullshit’, followed...
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Jul 5, 20182 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Kevin Chesters
Small confession. I was always going to like this book after the opening sentence: “To be honest, we’re not big fans of business books”....
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Jul 2, 20182 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Martin Weigel
When most books about marketing or advertising merely add to the landfill of calorie-free advice and are long copy exercises in self...
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Jun 28, 20182 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Neil Godber
How Not To Plan is a wonderfully illuminating and insightful book that any and everyone working in Planning (and beyond) can find...
APG
Jun 28, 20182 min read


How Not to Plan - A Review by Paul Feldwick
Today, we have a better and more soundly based understanding of how to make effective advertising than ever before. And this book, a...
APG
Jun 27, 20181 min read