Think pieces

Letter from the Pacific Northwest: Fast food nation

I have been on the road a lot lately. Even when I am traveling strictly for business, with little time for pleasure...

Breaking the Gender Barrier: Part III

We’ve shown you “femvertising” and gender equality in children’s campaigns, but three’s company! So what about the often-neglected third player… men?

Your skills can help transform young lives through theatre

Mousetrap Theatre Projects is a charity that believes passionately in the power of theatre to transform young lives.

Five signs your thought leadership content is crap

B2B communications specialist Allan Tan offers fives ways to work out if your thought leadership content might be missing the mark.

Love and Ambition

I recently watched a couple of excellent documentaries about two troubled musical geniuses, Janis Joplin and Michael Jackson.

The power of feedback to change behaviour

How do you try to make sure you get the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep each night? Milk and cookies?

Too long; didn’t read

Short version: the pitfalls won. Ten years on from the dawn of Twitter, we stand on a battlefield strewn with the corpses of dead slogans...

Why some words aren’t worth the design brief they’re written on.

What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually, Juliet my dear. Words matter. Particularly when it comes to creating something

IPA Effectiveness Week

We are delighted to be partnering with the IPA for its Effectiveness Week.

This unique initiative is designed to drive

Do-it-yourself… the German way

When it comes to the DIY market, Germany boasts 3 brands among the top 5 European DIY retailers...

Enter the mind of your customer

The second of the 4 factors I propose for innovation success is the need to enter the mind of your customer.

Latin America: How to thrive in a market we don’t understand

Being Brazilian technically qualifies me to be a Latin American. However, I must say I’m not sure...

Leadership lessons from Leicester City's league win

Football club Leicester City have recently won the English Premier League.

The consumer bites back

This morning‘s news announced the death of an otherwise unknown man in the US, William Backer.

Things to consider before rebranding your business



Recently Instagram has given itself a rebrand.  After 5 years the brand has introduced a new icon as well as

Creating inspirational plans

“There are only Monster Missions, all other missions are useless.”

What commits customers to brands? (clue: it isn’t love).

Marketing’s core role is to provide experiences that commit customers to a brand. Can science shed any light on brand relationships and loyalty?

The seven unmistakable signs of a sh*t brand consultant

Your portable toilet business has nothing to learn from Steve Jobs, and if a consultant even mentions Maslow’s Hierarchy...

The experiential excellence collection: Disney and McDonald’s nail it. Again.

Summer is always a great time of year to be part of the experiential marketing world. 

Neuromarketing Essentials: what every marketer needs to know

Peter Steidl is one of the authors of the excellent Neuromarketing for Dummies and, when I reviewed that book...

How marketing can put forgotten people back on our radar

If you were living with dementia, who could tell your story? Or if you were living in Sierra Leone during