Analysis

Jonathan Smith is CEO and founder of Hot Pot China, a China-focused digital and commercial consultancy. Desert Island (China) ads China is set to be the largest retail market by the end of this year. The opportunity is vast, and ...

I’m really looking forward to my year as President of the 2019 Sharks festival (September 18-21).. It’s funny to think that just over a year ago, my relationship with advertising awards was so very different, I’d genuinely fallen out of ...

It is never uplifting news to lose a major client and in M&C Saatchi’s case the NatWest loss cannot be helpful. They need to win a few decent names plus get some decent creative work out there in the public ...

I started in this industry the very week, as it happens, that Google launched. It was 1998 and the great digital disruption was underway. Agencies were already on the back foot, deep in battle with the research companies like Millward ...

Live & Wired is the UK’s first dedicated live social content agency, delivering creative, production and talent for brands. Founded by Sophie Kostrowski (right) and Sian Hainsworth, both come from a live television background. Live and Wired aims to combine ...

Listening to the radio this morning and reading people’s reactions to the ASA’s decision to ban new TV ads for Philadelphia and VW has genuinely surprised me. Piers Morgan suggested that these decisions have been made by ‘woke morons,’ and ...

Debate rumbles on about the state of British ad creativity and here’s a short Campaign film from Cannes with some of its advocates. It’s a promoted film so no-one’s going to say it’s in a rut – that’s putting it ...

Marketing, and the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), is changing profoundly and permanently. Just like any other business function, marketing has been buffeted by widespread technology-led disruption and the effect of elevated consumer expectations bleeding across traditional industry ...

Sue Higgs is a group creative director at Grey London. Desert Island Ads From the school of the bleeding obvious, it would appear the world has gone to hell in a handcart. But I’m no Laura Kuenssberg, I’m a mere ...