Think pieces

Market research needs to travel bravely into multiple futures

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In 2020, marketers need research approaches that help us explore the world as it really is: chaotic, uneven and simultaneously totally mundane and wildly unpredictable.

After the crisis, the reckoning

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How businesses treat their employees during the Covid 19 crisis will lead to a reckoning – a very bitter one if times get hard.

Let go of your brand ads. Hold onto your purpose.

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Marketers have moved from grief to action over the last week as they grapple with the rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis.

Leading for the future

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As the world is settling into the new realities of the coronavirus and how it is disrupting our daily lives, it is important to think about how this new normal will redefine the culture of work well into the 21st Century.

An industry in isolation

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Sarah Riggott, Group Marketing Director at CSM, considers how the sport and entertainment industry continues to be a force for good in troubled times.

Moral v commercial

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Who knew that making gut reactions was so tiring? One of the most considerable business impacts over the past month has been the need to make decisions based on instinct...

Hive Mind: Three Lessons from the Humble Honeybee

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Let me start with some good news - Coronavirus is giving nature a break.

While reports of dolphins in Venetian

We Are Here to Help: Online Education at the Time of Covid-19

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We know that many of you are working at home with kids to educate so we've pulled together a list with

Use these 6 tips for better video calls while working at home

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COVID-19 continues to affect our communities in a variety of ways. For many, working from home is a new reality.

What will the brands of Covid-19 be?

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A gentle look back at the brands that were associated with the two World Wars as we enter into the “war” on Coronavirus to help us think about opportunities.

If, by Rudyard Kipling (c.1895)

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If you can keep your headline when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on the client,   

How can you guys live like this?

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It’s the splenetic final sentence of ‘Inventing Desire’: the decades-old biog of LA adman Jay Chiat and his agency, Chiat Day...

The humble meeting, I miss it so

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Meetings are probably the most maligned form of group activity after Morris Dancing. Everyone loves to slag off meetings, don’t they?

How to convince your business to take psychology seriously

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There’s a key statistic that almost every marketer and salesperson has heard at some point in their career:

The substance in silence

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About nine months ago I learned how to breathe. “That’s nothing!” I hear you quip from the side of your snarky mouth.

Cost, value and how we should plan today’s TV

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The cost of TV advertising has become a talking point. This is because the cost of reaching some TV audiences via linear TV has increased...

Should we be talking right now?

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How to market during a pandemic? The short answer might be, don’t. That is, don’t treat Covid-19 like another...

Who (self) cares?

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Find out what self-care is. What can happen when it doesn’t work. Why it doesn’t work. And what to watch out for.

The Clash teach the three Rs: ‘Rehearse, 'Rite and Record’

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I recently visited a display at The Museum of London commemorating the 40th anniversary of The Clash’s third album, ‘London Calling’...

The Growth of Bespoke Nudging

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As behavioural science has evolved, new questions have arisen about how behavioural traits and cognitive...

Picasso Drinking Gasoline

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Picasso sits before his easel in a pair of shorts and no shirt. He is 75.