Think pieces

Eight marketing trends every marketer needs to know in 2023

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Marketers face a challenging year ahead but they have the best chance of spotting opportunities and maximising media spend if they understand the shifting trends within the industry and how customers are responding to changing circumstances.

How sport can be the perma-break from society’s permacrisis

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Rather than providing a respite from the permacrisis that affects our daily lives, sport has often added to it over the last 12 months. This has led to many fans and pundits crying for a separation of sport and social issues.

Make sustainable, diversity-driven advertising a reality with technology

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With issues such as climate change, racial inequality, and corporate good being thrust into the limelight, it’s time that brands start listening to their audience.

Spotlight on creative: Four steps to optimising your online content

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With more and more marketers scrambling to reach new audiences and develop cookieless solutions, some seem to have forgotten what’s right under their nose.

2023 - It’s time to build some new habits

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The New Year is inevitably accompanied by the desire or motivation to cease or initiate certain behaviours. But we all know how quickly good intentions can fall by the wayside.

Want growth? Build a customer-centric operating model

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While 85% of the C-suite say transformation is essential, they are less certain about whether they are taking the right steps. EY share Four key actions CMOs can take.

Pre-production is where all your DE&I good work can come quickly unstuck.

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Even if you have done everything right up until then, the sudden influx of new people and extended teams can undo all your good work. Here’s how to make sure that doesn't happen. 

Let’s just raise another glass of champagne to the future of the planet.

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400 private jets took world leaders to COP27. Dark Irony there. Simply not doing that, would have made an immediate difference.

Best of 2022: Technology, Innovation, Sport & Gender Equality

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As another year draws to a close, we reflect on 2022 and the topics on the minds of our writers and community.

Qatar is not the new land of football

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Amidst all the just criticism of Qatar 2022, it can be easy to forget the power this game has to inspire, unify and create change.

Why Events are the Key to Your Marketing Strategy

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Getting maximum value out of every penny of your marketing budget requires a different mindset – finding efficiency, doing more with less, and prioritising harder.

Marketing in the metaverse: four innovative use cases

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The metaverse is arguably the buzzword of 2022. It’s been making waves across the advertising industry for its potential to engage customers in totally new ways. 

Four steps to measurement and attribution in a post-cookie world

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Today we’ll be taking a closer look at four cookieless ways you can track attribution across your marketing funnel.

Building audiences in a cookieless world: five steps to success

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Innovative new solutions don’t just provide a method for building audiences in a post-cookie world - they also build consumer trust and open up entirely new marketing possibilities.

Impact is all that matters

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10 years ago I made my first conference speech as the President of The Marketing Society. For all the words spoken and written, have we made any progress?

Your golden opportunity to pioneer positive change in digital advertising

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The IAB UK Gold Standard is a one-stop-shop certification for companies that buy and sell digital advertising to ensure they’re adhering to industry best practice. 

The Evolution of “Purpose”: From Today’s Most Passionate Changemakers

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Assembly spoke to Gen Z employees across the business to hear their own definitions of Purpose and the ways they’d like to see businesses evolving to reflect it.

Inclusive advertising needs to start at the pitch

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Many agencies are saying they are diverse, or proposing diversity and inclusion in the pitch, then turning their back on that when they actually make the campaign.

Football For The Fans?

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How will the football industry approach the cost-of-living crisis in the UK? Harry Eckersley explores how stakeholders can provide genuine support for fans.

Why sustainable marketing is a priority

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Climate change and global warming are the unignorable hot topic of our current time. See what Richard Armstrong has to say about ‘Why sustainable marketing is a priority’.

Government gets serious about consumer protection

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The rising cost of living and recession is already changing financial habits and pushing consumers to find new ways to manage and make their money go further.