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Harsh Kapadia on the importance of 3%

VMLY&R Executive Creative Director Harsh Kapadia speaks on diversity, equality and being a 3% agency.

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From King Price to King David

Gas and electricity markets will be fundamentally transformed over the next five years. We can help to drive this transformation. If we care enough.

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The evolving dynamics of the direct-to-consumer market

Mahabis, the upmarket slipper maker and one time DTC (direct-to-consumer) poster child is in administration, but the brand began with a business model rather than a product, says David Carr, Strategy Director at Digitas. And other DTC brands are also feeling the pinch.

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Why The Birth Of Voice Doesn’t Mean The Death Of Advertising

In one of its periodic spasms of self-doubt, some sectors of the industry have been quick to hail the ascendancy of digital voice assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, as striking a death knell for brand advertising. Aside from the fact that these same voices are quick to consign tried and tested advertising techniques to the bin with each technological development (whilst consistently being proved wrong), in this instance their assumption may not just be incorrect but the opposite might be true.

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Warning: Natural May Be Bad For Your Marketing Health

What happens when a long standing marketing paradigm is undermined? Something so well established, we apply it without thinking; so incontrovertibly true, no one questions it. When it’s pointed out that naturally healthy dried fruit snacks are less good for you than a packet of sweets, and that a burger is healthier than a handmade baguette, we may be about to find out.

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THE CLASS CEILING MUST BE SHATTERED

Research by the Advertising Diversity Taskforce outlines why social mobility is vital for better representation in the industry.

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How marketers can better leverage the Amazon opportunity

David Carr, Strategy Director at Digitas, explores how Amazon is changing the face of marketing.

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THINK FORWARD > 2019

We connect people and brands in a meaningful way. That’s why our 2019 Think Forward report unpicks the complex and ever shifting web of consumer identity online, and looks at the role brands play in reflecting and shaping it. We’ll arm you with everything you need to survive the current identity shifts on social media, from insights into raging culture and gender debates to the new rules of data. There’s even AI marketing and a robot influencer or two. Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned

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Brands' Permission to Speak 2019

Working with our partners Opinium and Pulsar, Splendid examines the role culture plays in modern marketing, the growing expectation that brands should have something to say about the world beyond their own products or services, and which topics they have permission to discuss.

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WHAT PEPSICO'S PURCHASE OF SODASTREAM TELLS US ABOUT FMCG BRANDS

SodaStream has built a modern blended retail model that goes beyond traditional outlets and e-commerce.

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Don't fall into the trap of 'tokenistic tech'

Technology is revolutionising brand/consumer interactions. Now, all we have to do is learn to use it properly.

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On My Radar: Harsh Kapadia

The executive creative director of VMLY&R lives in hope of an Alexa laundry skill, lets Marsbot decide what he's having for dinner and credits his mum as his main career influence.

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Apple Business Chat Just Came to the UK. Here’s Why It’s For Visionaries Like You

VMLY&R London’s innovation lead Gracie Page on an Apple innovation that should excite brand folks

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Because Behaviour Can Be Designed

Welcome to the second edition of our 'Show Me' quarterly. This issue focuses on the fundamental belief that design is not a passive part of the creative process, rather it can play an active role in influencing and shifting people’s behaviour.

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Branding in a Post-Truth World: An Issue of Trust

Welcome to the third edition of our 'Show Me' quarterly. This issue focuses on trust - a much over-used word but it’s an issue that’s not going anywhere soon. We explore how consumer behaviour is changing and what this means for brands.

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Out of the closet and into the agency

15% of advertising and marketing professionals who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans or queer have experienced acts of physical and emotional abuse and harassment in the office, according to a survey conducted by Digitas and Gay Star News.