• Commute to office – 33 minutes and 09 seconds
• Arrive at office – 8.07am
• First chat with colleague – 8.20am

The Roman empire, the British empire – they rise, they fall, nothing surer. And equally sure is the fact that

This really is a lovely little book. It can be read (as I did) on a medium haul flight and

Chief executive opposition

Hugh Burkitt is joining forces with The Leith Agency’s Gerry Farrell in the Ogilvy Debate to

Sorrell's secret

It’s just a few months until Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, the world’s largest advertising and

Companies, especially those in the fmcg world, have a profound interest in understanding where their consumers are heading. Cool hunters

20% of Britons say they are too busy at work to use up their holiday allowance, while 25% claim they

Early last year I was giving this talk a lot. It’s about what we mean by technology, and how it

Outside of the industry, it is little recognized that advertising agencies do not actually make television commercials—this is outsourced to

1/ Male dolphins are bisexual

2/ Nearly six million cats and dogs in Britain are obese.

3/ Barack Obama knows

Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners’ kbs+ and co-founder of creative technology shop Spies&Assassins, explains how scale, empowerment and technology

In this month’s blog Faris Yakob, chief innovation officer at MDC Partners, takes a look at behavioural change.

In the

In The Marketing Society’s quarterly journal Market Leader, Hugh Burkitt describes his recent encounter with the business end of healthcare

A strange thing happened to me last night for the first time in my life. I was asked to remove

To a posh Advertising Association party at Unilever House last week. There an engaging young man called Ed Vaizey, Minister

The sight of John Lewis staff jumping into the air on hearing that they are to receive a bonus of

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Following the Fellows Dinner with Nicola Horlick, CEO, Bramdean Asset Management our chief executive shares his first thoughts on how

A few years back the MoD ordered a new radio system.
The radios would be used by ships, helicopters, planes

We remember Steve Jobs as inventing the iPod.
And nowadays the name iPod has become the generic for the entire

First a caveat, the following are not definitive golden rules but some sensible pointers, and for the record, they were