Think pieces

The Future of Marketing

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The future of marketing in the West is going to be heavily influenced by Asia, and by China in particular. There are a few different marketing trends which are clearly influencing...

Beyond mugs and wine

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People tend to ask greater prices for goods that they already own than they are willing to pay for identical goods that they do not own.

Three cognitive biases to power-up your marketing

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Cognitive biases and marketing psychology are key ways to understand how your customers think.

The trust crisis and the sharing solution

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In doing good things, we can rebuild trust, and turn conspiracy theorists into agents for positive change

Branding for good

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In 2016, Peter Wohlleben, a German forester, released his book describing forests as interdependent, communicative and cooperative. Wohllenben explains that

How to harness the power of Instagram

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In the time it takes you to read this article nearly 1 million pictures will have been shared on Instagram.

How Honeypot nailed buzz marketing

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At Turtl, we’re big fans of guerrilla tactics, so when we spotted this great example of buzz marketing near our office last week, we had to give it the credit it deserves.

5 Ways to Harness the Gender Revolution

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Hannah Hoel reveals five future-facing ways for brands to think about gender, the body and identity

Let’s stop talking to the over 50s

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Opening our minds, and our industry, to people of all ages with no arbitrary shelf-dates will be good for business and for the, thankfully, long-living world in which we live. 

Form Follows Function

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Marketers often take too much notice of the form other companies use to communicate, rather than thinking about the fundamental function of their own messaging

Go big or go home!

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As Netflix commits to double production spend in the UK to £500,000 in 2020 and Amazon follows suit too, the giant streamers go even bigger, but what does that mean for traditional broadcasters who were already struggling to compete and can brands take advantage?

Why the World Needs Brand Experience Now More Than Ever…

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 The power of experience has become an economy in its own right. A major multi-billion dollar player in the global economy and one that brands ignore at their peril. 

Discover your bravest self

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In an upside-down world, the Bravest conference couldn’t be better timed

Sixty Iconic Brands: 1959 to 2018

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Selecting 60 brands to reflect marketing over the past 60 years has not been an easy task, but the basis

Do Pause / You are not a to-do list: excerpt 3

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As columnist Dov Seidman says: ‘When you press the pause button on a machine it stops. But when you press

Do Pause / You are not a to-do list: excerpt 2

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Time, they say, is a scarce commodity. Underlying this idea is the morbid but unavoidable truth that, one day, we

Do Pause / You are not a to-do list: excerpt 1

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The space in our lives is always under pressure. There are powerful forces that combine to squeeze it out. First

Summer of women's sport

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Game plan: is it finally time for football lead the way in gender equality? With another summer of sport now firmly in the rear-view mirror, football on the world stage has a very different reason...

Google's Tea Uglow on bravery and fear

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I’m sure you’ve probably noticed but we appear to be kind of fucked. The planet is burning, we have a

We should give ourselves time to think

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The morning after Boris announced that he was going to suspend Parliament, the nation was split between outraged anti-proroguers and

Persuasion is not enough

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As marketers and insights professionals, we are firmly grounded in the art of persuasion.  We’ve been trained to think in