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What is a 'new normal'?

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PubMatic's Chief Revenue Officer EMEA, Emma Newman, looks at what a market reset means for brands, agencies and publishers

Be careful - brand language shapes our reality

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In 1954, two linguistics researchers, Lenberg and Brown, ran an experiment on German and Japanese students.

When employees fear change, do they fear the future, or the past?

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Felicity Walsh, strategist at growth consultancy &us shares some exclusive research into fear and innovation at work

A glimpse of the post-pandemic world is right under our noses

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VMLY&R's Bediz Eker, looks at what consumers value during and after a crisis, namely, going back to basics, plus ways to de-stress and escape.

Finding the abundance around you

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eatbigfish LA's Nick Geoghegan says creative collaboration is being able to understand what you need and who has enough of it to share...

Farewell to working in silos

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Since March, marketing teams have struggled to modify their plans and find the bandwidth and resources necessary to execute against rapidly changing priorities and shifting budgets.

Come together, we can work it out

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Global Marketing Transformation Director at MARS Inc, Tom Lindley, looks to The Beatles, Elvis and Picasso for better ways to creatively collaborate, and offers four tips of his own.

Brand experiences in a post-Covid world

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Marketers have been posed with a wealth of creative challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic and those wanting to create effective brand experiences for their targeted audiences have been most affected.

What we've been getting wrong about collaboration

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Senior Strategist at Forever Beta, Olivia Stancombe, looks at how collaboration can turn brands into platforms for change

Kill your ego: create with impact

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Superhero leadership is bullshit. Killing your ego and working with rebel thinkers is the way to create the impact you seek, writes Scott Morrison

2020: LOWS, 'WHYS' AND EMOTIONAL DIVIDES

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Fran Griffin, Senior Strategist at MullenLowe London, on why picking a side might be your safest bet.

Trevor Robinson OBE on why advertising shouldn't take the safe route

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Advertising at its best should stop you in your tracks. Yet a lot of the creative output from the industry has become bland and forgettable.

Virtual events are booming with 5G

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5G will change how we participate in concerts, conferences and sporting events forever, says Verizon Media RYOT Studio's Head of EMEA, Mark Melling

Raised fists, bent knees

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Cultural expert and semiotician, Becks Collins, on why we need to understand the symbols we use and why brands need to step up and take responsibility

Filling the physical and online void

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How brands can help the human mind adapt to our new, more physically disconnected world. Words by Crawford Hollingworth and Liz Barker.

Belonging in a virtual world

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Building team belonging virtually is tough, but there are five approaches leaders can take for a more inclusive culture, says Katie Lee, CEO of Lucky Generals

As the world divides, brands can show us the way with unity

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As a nation, we’ve become used to living with separation, four years of Brexit has been the perfect training ground.

Remote togetherness

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BVA Nudge Unit Singapore's CEO, Richard Bordenave, looks to the experiential reality coming out of China and new spaces brands are beginning to explore

Brands, ignore complexity at your peril!

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Cultural Researcher and Strategist Gemma Jones says, if brands are to be a guiding light in a messy world, they must acknowledge the complexity of people through research

Eggs, Edwina Currie and confidence after covid

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How do we re-establish confidence in people likely to be scared of getting together in cafes, coffee shops, gyms, cinemas and pubs?

Our differences fuel a new type of togetherness

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The new generation reveals to us an alternative definition of togetherness that comes from difference and contradictions...