Think pieces

When the world zigs, zag

The research is in; Could embracing failure be better for your brand than success? 

Learning from movie, TV and political content creators

Should marketers take inspiration from The Lego Movie?

The purpose of purpose

If you don’t have time to read this, it’s exactly why you should.

Challenger brands to watch 2018

From Halo Top to Fenty Beauty, here are the brands making an impact in the industry

It’s indifference, not alienation, that brands should be worried about

By Gen Kobayashi, head of strategy at O&M London 

What brands stand to lose by not taking a stand

“Let it be absolutely clear, the loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member

Ad agencies got the memo on diversity. Now it’s your turn.

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Are you slowing the progress?

The Business Blindfold

The fundamental flaw in the tools businesses use to understand their consumers – and why removing the blindfold is essential to delivering sustained, profitable growth.

Chinese New Year is evolving and this is how brands can stay ahead

Four key insights to get ahead

Mental Health & Freelance. Cure or catalyst?

Gig economy & mental health. Is it always a positive equation?

Gig economy & mental health. Is it always a positive equation?

Creative Monk or Creative Mob?

Meeting the needs of the introverts and extroverts within your team

Not crazy but creative minds

Somewhat counter-intuitively, mental illness has often been associated with improvement in one discipline critical to the world of business – creativity. 

Creativity in the pressure cooker

Ever since escaping the day to day pressures of corporate life, my mind has felt liberated and free to wander

What we leave behind

By Debs Gerrard, creative director

Star Wars in China - A cultural context

China has a unique relationship with the science fiction genre, which we explored in our analysis of the way movies

The Big Growth Secret (that almost all of us miss)

The secret moments that determine consumer purchasing decisions and drive brand choice  – and why so many companies miss them

Are marketers hedgehogs or foxes?

Reflecting on the 20th anniversary of Market Leader, Judie Lannon, founding editor, wonders what makes a marketer.

10 things we learned this winter

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  1. Available flavours of KitKat in Japan include baked potato, soybean, apricot seed and red bean paste sandwich.
  2. In 2011, Toyota

Four things about creative productivity

Productivity within the ‘vaguely creative industries’ (which is how I think of marketing) is a subject soaked in unresearched hypothesises. Here are four more:

10 things in our Clubhouse: Feb 18

From tribes to women in power to creative productivity.

We don’t need no education!

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The Behavioural Architects, on how feedback trumps financial education in improving financial capability.