Research

Do you remember when Alan Sugar described high-earning footballers as Carlos Kickaball? Well the world’s leading Carlos Kickaball, Cristiano Ronaldo generates $1.6m fer every Instagram post according to new research from HopperHQ.com which describes itself as the “world’s leading Instagram ...

AI is now an integral part of our lives and as a society awash with data, we rely on AI to process increasingly vast amounts of information. AI helps us determine the best experience and message for us as we ...

IPG’s Magna has revised up its global ad forecasts: now its 14% up this year and seven next, adding $78bn this year. Most of this, of course, will find its way into the bulging pockets of Facebook and Google, but ...

WPP’s GroupM is forecasting 24% growth for the UK ad market in 2021 – up from its previous forecast of 12.4% – a rate of growth its president of business intelligence Brian Weiser describes as “astonishing.” Weiser (left) told Campaign: ...

Surveys always seem to tell you what you think you know already, which is why we ignore most of them. Here’s another from Wunderman Thompson summarising what a tangle companies get into as they try to combine marketing with IT/technology, ...

The great pandemic move to digital has hit a real-life brick wall, according to a new study from Deloitte Digital, which found that almost half of British consumers prefer to shop on their local high street and 33 per cent ...

In these purpose-driven days are brands “conscious” or just self-conscious? Omnicom duo Wolff Olins and insight agency Hall & Partners have produced the first Conscious Brands 100 survey, reflecting “changing consumer mood and demands as a result of the pandemic.” ...

Specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco, which operates in the tech, digital, media and marketing sectors, reports 472 transactions in Q1 2021, a 36 per cent increase year-on-year from Q1 2020, a strong, pre-covid quarter, when 346 deals were recorded and ...

It’s hard not to like a book with chapter headings including ‘Richard Latham’s Rug’ and ‘David Beckham’s Sarong’, even if younger readers will barely remember the latter episode, let alone the former reference. Latham wasn’t Beckham’s predecessor at outside right ...