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Sir Martin Sorrell: Short-termism is the biggest threat to marketers

Sir Martin Sorrell’s greatest worry and what he believes will have the greatest negative impact on future growth is short-termism. Speaking this morning (2 March) at Deloitte’s Media and Telecoms conference, the WPP boss said: “It’s not three-month-old babies that keep me awake at night. It’s the continuous focus on the short term. Events of recent weeks bring

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International bulletin: France passes new ad transparency law, Lyft takes on Uber

France passes new ad transparency law Most people probably haven’t heard of Loi Sapin – an anti-corruption law that was introduced in France in 1993 in order to make the business of media-buying more transparent. It states that media-buying agencies are not allowed to work as both the buyer and seller of advertising for their

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When Your Code Has To Work: Complying With Legal Mandates

    Douglas Crockford famously declared browsers to be “the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable,” and that wasn’t hyperbole. Ensuring that our websites work across a myriad of different devices, screen sizes and browsers our users depend on to access the web is a tall order, but it’s necessary. If our websites don’t enable

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‘As soon as you have an innovations department you’re buggered’

Innovation will not come from installing a team dedicated to “being innovative” as that only encourages businesses to think of creativity and technology as two separate things, says Creative England’s CEO Caroline Norbury. Technology, creativity, innovation and data are “all bound together” in reality, so any attempt to split them out and treat them independently will

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Tesco pushes ethical message as it looks to become a purpose-driven brand

Tesco is aiming to become a brand that is “purpose driven” with the launch of its first press campaign talking about its commitment to tackling food waste and goal that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste within its UK operations by the end of 2017. The press campaign alludes to the

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Yorkshire Tea on upholding its challenger status and making its ads ‘culturally famous’

Yorkshire Tea has released a new campaign in a bid to sustain its sales growth in a declining tea market and deliver cut-through among consumers. The new campaign, created by Lucky Generals and launching today (2 March), sees the brand recruit multiple celebrities from Yorkshire, including TV veteran Michael Parkinson, Olympic triathletes the Brownlee Brothers

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