November 29, 2015 In Prague for the European Planning Conference I just had a fantastic week attending the 2nd edition of the European Planning Conference in Prague this week. I was able to arrive…
November 19, 2015 Back to Back Planning & Strategy Nights at Google I’ve spent the past two evenings at the now familiar Google UK large meeting room for planning & strategy focused evenings of talks….
November 13, 2015 Brain Surfing & Strategist Survey Image Credit: Afu007 After a hiatus for a couple of years, the Strategist Survey (formerly Planner Survey) is back! If you’re a strategist,…
November 5, 2015 In the Shipping Business I read this article from Dave Trott in Campaign yesterday. He writes about content and makes excellent points about the advertising & marketing’s current obsession with…
October 2, 2015 Thinking About What to Write Where A couple of weeks ago I attended an evening at Google for a Firestarters event about content marketing & complexity. These events are curated…
September 26, 2015 Ice Cream Sundaes Header image credit: Sundae on the cruise by Brian Holland A few friends recommended starting a weekly email newsletter. I’ve been thinking about what…
August 20, 2015 Who Does Advertising Serve? I’m catching up on some reading and came across this article written by Tracy Follows: “Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the…
June 29, 2014 Saturday Streaming #2 It’s a day late but in any case here are my favourite videos from the past week. At the Cannes advertising event, or rather…
June 15, 2014 Reverse Engineering the Gillette Manscaping Video In my last post, I wrote about the idea of celebrating the bottom of the ad barrel with a series of posts. Yesterday I…
November 18, 2013 BeerSphere Singapore Redux – Christmas Edition The second time I visited Singapore, and with the outstanding help of Simon, we organised the first ever Beersphere Singapore – a casual meetup of…