The future of social insight

Latest statistics show that 2.8 billion people were using social media by the end of 2016, up 21% from 2015, while in the UK 77% of people have a social media account. Brands are now using sophisticated techniques to exploit the market research potential of social media, whether that be linking people’s interests to purchase behaviour or…

‘Marketers need to work harder’ insists Thinkbox CEO as brands drop diversity ads

Thinkbox CEO Lindsey Clay says it’s “a great shame” that many of the brands shortlisted for Channel 4’s ‘Superhumans Wanted’ competition have since decided not to run the campaigns pitched at promoting diversity. The competition, announced in April last year, offered the winning brand £1m of commercial airtime throughout the Rio Paralympics. Every pitch had…