December 29, 2015 Looking back at 2015 I haven’t written one of these posts since 2012. Of course at the time it was meant to become a yearly thing. I’m having…
December 22, 2015 Applying the 80-20 Pareto Principle to Writing a Creative Brief [Image Credit: Robert Couse-Baker] An advertising agency account manager friend and ex-colleague recently contacted me to ask for some advice to improve the…
December 10, 2015 Adventure Travels and Stories with Storythings Director Hugh Garry [Subscribe to the podcast: on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music, RSS feed. Please give the show a rating and a review if you…
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 21, 2015 Welcome to the Future Happy Back to the Future day! It’s finally (or already) here! Back to the Future Part II is one of the first films I…
October 16, 2014 Lavasa: Corporate Dream, Ghost Town, or Both? One of the utopian type advertising posters in Lavasa, branding courtesy of Landor from what I read. While in India, I had an unexpected…
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…