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Let your guard down

By Jamie Inman

Brands aren’t human and the relationship metaphor is wildly overstated. Still, the ones that are winning finding ways to reveal the raw humanity that they contain within and in the customers that they serve.

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Festivals provide an opportunity for brands to let their hair down

By Lucy Montgomery

Fast-forward to today and festivals’ worth, relevance and future are often brought into question. For brands that want to collaborate with festivals, this poses some issues.

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People First Gaming

By Jossy Pilgrim

Promotion in the gaming category has long been informed by two deep-seated assumptions; who plays games and why they play them.

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Making the brand experience relevant

By Jovan Buac

In the future, will more brands successfully translate in the US? The big question isn’t just about how relevant your branding or pack design is, but rather it's about how compelling the overall brand experience is in an ever more competitive world.

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Why should we feel guilty for snacking?

By James Nixon

But if the way we eat has changed, what we eat needs to follow. Processed, high calorie, sugar-laden snacks just won’t cut the mustard anymore, so ‘Generation Graze’ is going to hunt down an alternative.

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The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker

By Richard Danks

Google “retail is dead” and you’re faced with sifting through 26,800,000 search results. As a strategist working with retailers day-in day-out this is either a very bad thing or a very good thing, depending on which way you look at it.

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The lost art of inter-agency collaboration

By Dan Claxton

We’re all creative people, and we all want to ensure that we deliver the best work that we can. We need to get back to collaborating and building ideas, allowing them to grow and flourish.

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