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Can marketing help us build back better post covid?

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Is building loyalty with customers the key to withstanding global shocks? asks WWF-UK's Rhiannon Shah

The home advantage: sport behind closed doors

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'Sport... for millions it provides an escape, not to mention a sense of belonging and community.' Leo Burnett Sport + Entertainment's Liam Hopkins on the future for sports entertainment behind closed doors

Beware the doughnut: hollow brands, cultural change

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Hollow brands, cultural change and the new era of marketing leadership, by Dom Boyd, UK Managing Director Insights at Kantar

Why are you selling when you could be serving?

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'We are here for you' is not a strategy. Engaging prospects and customers through content and community is...

Marriages of convenience

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How successful partnerships allow brands to be both refreshingly original and reassuringly familiar at the same time. By Katie Ewer, Head of Strategy at JKR Singapore.

Stay calm and stream on

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Thoughts on the rise of streaming and gaming; and what brands should be thinking about for a post-Coronavirus world.

Gender stereotyping

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With further ASA bans on ads under the gender stereotyping rules, the industry has been led to question the impact on future creative work

Winning isn't everything. Nor is failing

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In a modern world where productivity has been praised to the point of creating tools to upgrade our bodies and

As robots rise, will brands falter?

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Siegel+Gale's Howard Belk, with the help of brand leaders from SAP, Vonage and StitchFix, reminds brand-builders to keep humanity—and purpose—at the core of technology adoption.

Gen Z and the future of brand purpose

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What the new generation of consumers signals for the future of brand purpose (and why so many brands are getting it wrong)

The value of having a brand voice that can speak up

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Chris West explores the topic, with examples from Nike, TOMS' Blake Mycoskie, HSBC and X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.

Mindfulness in the age of AI

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Let me start this article by sharing a shocking revelation that I recently discovered about Larry Page, the co-founder of Google.

Not fit for purpose: Nimby's, Boy Scouts and vigilantes

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In the wake of the fiscal crash of the mid-70s, the city had slashed the number of police officers on the beat...

Do young marketers bother to learn the basics?

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Dave Trott recently wrote an article saying that today's young marketers are too busy chasing trends to bother to learn techniques like SWOT analysis.

Neuromarketing 101

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What key trends can we expect in 2020 and beyond? CEO of Neuro-Insight UK, Shazia Ginai, offers her predictions, from unconventional measurement to secrets to the power of context

A world of purpose and principles?

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Author, brand consultant and executive at The Value Engineers, Giles Lury, says we're in a period of growing activism not since seen the '60s and it's affecting the choices people make about products and brands

Tech trends in 2020

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Innovation Lead Peter Gasston with colleagues from VCCP, explore technological trends that influence industries and shape culture.

Cultural shifts to watch in 2020

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President, Americas at Canopy Insight, Victoria Gerstman, and the team share their take on five cultural areas poised to undergo seismic changes this year.

Here's to a decade of co-operation

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Every January, we try to predict what the following 12 months will be like. And when the New Year coincides with the start of a new decade this urge to prognosticate is, of course, even more marked.

It's time to tackle imposter syndrome

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Over seventy per cent of us have it, but we rarely talk about it. Marketing Society chief executive, Gemma Greaves, thinks it's high time we started

Sorry seems to be the hardest tweet

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Starcom's Head of Strategic Innovation explores brand apologies and how best to win the public over after a crisis.